Calendar view

The calendar has four time-range views (1-day, 3-day, 5-day, 7-day) and a month view. Switch between them with the view selector in the top bar, or use keyboard shortcuts (see ? for the full list).

The calendar always opens on today. Your view mode and selected people carry over from last time; the date does not.

Person columns

In day and week views, each person you've selected appears as a column. Hours run down; 30-minute slots are the default density. You can toggle 2× vertical zoom with the zoom button in the top bar if you want more granular rows.

The column header shows the person's name, their color dot, and any configured holiday marker for that day. If you haven't selected any people, the grid shows a prompt to open the Persons selector.

Activity blocks

Each event on the grid is an activity block. It shows:

• The start time and (if space allows) end time
• The event title
• A small source mark and color that identifies which source it came from (ERP, Outlook, Google, etc.)
• An attendee count badge if the event has external attendees
• An RSVP icon if you've been invited and haven't responded

Click any block to open the detail drawer. From there you can edit the event, add comments, attach files, and toggle your watch status. See Calendar sources for how source colors are assigned.

Blocks have several visual states: hover (slight lift), selected (ring), optimistic-save (translucent while being written to the server), and error (red hairline if the save failed and needs attention).

Creating an event

Click any empty time slot to open the activity editor, pre-filled with that date and time. You can also press N at any time. Fields in the editor:

• Date, start time, end time
• Primary person (defaults to you)
• Activity type — searchable list from your ERP
• Project, customer, item — each searchable against your ERP records
• Description / notes
• CC persons (multi-select)
• Location, attendees, video provider (Teams / Meet / Zoom) — for Outlook and Google events

Ctrl/Cmd+S saves. Ctrl/Cmd+Y duplicates the current event. Esc closes without saving.

On desktop the editor doesn't dim or blur the calendar behind it, so you can read what else is on the day while filling the form in. Drag the editor by its title bar to move it out of the way. The calendar behind stays live: scroll it, and hover any event to see its preview card, without touching what you've typed.

Clicking the calendar behind the editor does nothing on purpose — a click on an empty slot would otherwise start a second event and throw away the one you're writing. Close the editor with Esc, the ✕, or Cancel.

ERP events are saved directly to Standard Books. Outlook and Google events are written through the Microsoft Graph / Google Calendar APIs.

Letting the ticket number fill in project and customer

For ERP activities, put the ticket number in the title — DESK-1234 fix the printer. When you leave the title field, Standard Books looks the ticket up and fills in the project and the customer for you, using the same rules it applies in the desktop window. No need to pick either by hand.

A title with no ticket number in it changes nothing, and anything you have already chosen yourself is left alone. If the ticket maps to a different project than the one showing, the looked-up one wins — same as editing the field in Standard Books.

Picking people

Persons and CC persons are shown as code chips. Hover a chip to see whose code it is. Press +N more to list everyone, with a filter box that matches on code, first name, or surname — so you don't need to know somebody's code to add them.

Inviting people outside the company

Add external guests by email under External Attendees. Type the address, then press + (or Enter) to add it — the address becomes a chip. Typing alone does not add anyone, so the editor refuses to save while an address is still sitting in the box unadded, and tells you which one.

Outlook and Google both email each added guest an invitation when you save, and a fresh notice if you later move or cancel the event.

If a guest tells you nothing arrived, first reopen the event and check they're listed as a chip. An address that was typed but never added with + was never on the event, so nobody was invited.

Month view

Month view shows a 6×7 grid. Each day cell shows up to four activity chips and an overflow count. Click a day to open the day-detail panel on the right (desktop) or a bottom sheet (mobile).

Days with public holidays for your configured country show a subtle overlay. Click the week header to switch straight to the 7-day view for that week.

Current time indicator

A horizontal line across the columns marks the current time. The time label sits at the left edge of the grid.

Drag and resize

Drag an activity block to reschedule it. Drag the bottom edge to resize the duration. Moves and resizes write back to the source system immediately (optimistic — they render before the server confirms).