calendar manager

Simplify your calendar with the ultimate tool for creating, managing, and synchronizing an unlimited number of calendars.

The power and flexibility of finalsite's Calendar Manager make it easy to create and manage an unlimited number of calendars, without duplication of content or effort.  Every school, department, club, sport, and classroom can create and maintain its own calendar, with full synchronization among all of them.   Viewers of the website can customize a calendar view drawing only events of personal interest from each calendar.  Increased relevance, less clutter.  Schedule once, use everywhere.  It's the calendar tool you've always wanted. 

see also | CMS | modules | athletics | forms manager

Features:

Unlimited Calendars Create as many as you need, wherever you need them.

Dynamic Calendaring All calendars can "talk" to each other, so calendar editors can pull events from other calendars onto theirs, or push their events onto other calendars, eliminating redundant data entry or memos to other calendar editors.

No Programming Creation of a calendar event requires only typing or dragging-and-dropping of text from Word onto the appropriate date.  No HTML, no complicated web editor, no technical staff required.

Banner Headlines Have upcoming events automatically displayed in banners anywhere.

Calendar Styles Create different style templates to give different department, schools, or classroom calendars an individualized look.

Information Linking Calendar text can be easily hyperlinked to other pages or websites for additional information, directions, registration forms, etc.

Event Icons Critical or similar events can be identified by color or icon for at-a-glance convenience.

Personal Calendars Viewers can select the events or event types they would like to appear on their own personalized calendar view, and have those selections automatically saved for future on-line viewing.

Calendar Synchronization With just one click viewers can synchronize calendars to their Outlook calendar or a PDA (such as Palm or Blackberry devices).

Block Events Easily create daily or weekly reoccurring events in just a few clicks.

Drag & Drop Easily move events in a grid format by dragging and dropping.

Alerts* Receive an alert through email or SMS to your cell phone when a new item is posted on a calendar.

* Denotes that you must purchase the Multimedia Manager Module.

Calendar Manager Benefits:

For Administrators:

• Decentralization of calendaring tasks allows people responsible for events to schedule them, without need for memos, data re-entry, delays, or bottlenecks.
• Changes on one calendar are immediately reflected on all others, so all calendars stay clean and accurate without repetitive maintenance.
• Calendars are the most frequently used feature of most schools' websites, so providing a truly useful one will pay great dividends in constituent satisfaction.

For Staff:

• Sudden additions and changes can be taken care of immediately without being dependent upon a webmaster or other remote staff.
• Ability to link to resources from within the calendar events adds tremendous utility for complete communication of all needed information.

For Website Visitors:

• Visitors can customize a calendar to fit their own interests and have the settings saved, increasing the likelihood they will use it regularly.
• Ability to quickly sync customized calendar with Outlook and PDA is an appreciated convenience for today's "wired" audience.