Views & navigation
The Calendar ships six views. You choose which one the report opens on, which ones people can switch to, and where the week starts; everything else is driven from the visual's own header.
The header
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Today | Jumps back to the period containing today's date, in whatever view is showing. |
| View selector | Drops down the list of enabled views. Keyboard: Enter/Space to open, ↑ ↓ to move, Enter to choose, Esc to close. |
| ‹ › | Steps back and forward one period. The step depends on the view (see below). |
| Period title | The period on screen — March 2026, 3 – 9 March 2026, Tuesday, 3 March 2026, Q1 2026, 2026. Formatted in the viewer's language. |
The header is always visible and can't be turned off — it is how viewers move around the calendar. If your report has no room for it, size the visual so the 52-pixel header still fits.
How far each arrow moves
| View | One click of ‹ or › |
|---|---|
| Day | 1 day |
| Week | 1 week |
| Month | 1 month |
| List | 1 month |
| Quarter | 3 months |
| Year | 1 year |
Choosing the views
Format → Calendar
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Default View | Month · Week · Day · List · Year · Quarter | Month |
| First Day of Week | Monday · Sunday · Saturday | Monday |
| Enable Month/Week/Day/List/Year/Quarter View | On · Off | All on |
- Default View is what everyone sees when the report loads.
- The Enable toggles control the view selector's contents. Turning views off keeps the visual focused — a shift roster rarely needs Year view, a campaign calendar rarely needs Day view.
- The Default View is always available, even if its own toggle is off. You can't lock viewers out of the view they land on.
- Turn off every view but one to remove view switching altogether.
What is (and isn't) saved with the report
| State | Saved with the report? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Default View, enabled views, first day of week | Yes — they're Format pane settings | Changing Default View also clears any view a viewer had switched to, so your change is visible immediately. |
| The view a viewer switches to | No | It lasts for their session. Reopening or refreshing the report returns to the Default View. |
| The period they navigated to | No | The calendar reopens on the period containing today. |
| Selected events | Yes, via bookmarks | See Bookmarks. |
Because the period isn't saved, the calendar always opens on today — which is what most audiences want. If a report needs to open on a fixed historical month instead, filter the data to that month with a report or page filter, and set the Default View to List, which shows only days that have events.
Month view
The classic grid: five or six week rows, starting on your chosen first day of week. Days from the neighbouring months fill the edges and are dimmed.
- Multi-day events are drawn as continuous bars across the days they cover. A bar that runs past the end of a week row continues on the next row, with a squared-off edge showing it isn't the real start or end.
- Events are packed into lanes — the same event keeps the same row across the whole week, exactly like Outlook and Google Calendar.
- Each day cell shows up to Max Events Per Cell events (1–5, default 3); the rest collapse into a "+N more" button that opens a panel listing everything on that day.
- Clicking a day number switches to Day view for that date.
- Within a day, events are ordered chronologically, with longer events first when they start at the same moment — so a multi-day event stays at the top of every day it crosses.
Week view
Seven day columns over a 24-hour grid, plus an all-day lane at the top.
- All-day events sit in the lane above the grid, spanning the days they cover.
- Timed events are placed and sized by their real start and end times. Overlapping events share the width side by side.
- An event that crosses midnight is drawn on both days, with squared-off top and bottom edges.
- Non-working hours are shaded, and non-working days get a shaded column — both from Format → Work Hours.
- A red "now" line is drawn across today's column and updates as time passes.
- Clicking a day number switches to Day view for that date.
- The grid opens scrolled to the middle of your working hours, so 09:00–18:00 is on screen without scrolling.
Day view
One day, full width, over the same 24-hour grid.
- Timed chips show the title with the time range beneath it (clipped on very short events, so the title always wins).
- Overlapping events are laid out side by side.
- Non-working hours are shaded here too, whichever day of the week it is.
- Best paired with a date slicer when people need to inspect a single busy day — a room, a room list, an engineer's schedule.
List view
An agenda for the current month: one sticky header per day, then that day's events as rows.
- Only days that have events are listed (plus today, as a scroll anchor), so a sparse month reads as a short list rather than a mostly-empty grid.
- The view opens scrolled to today.
- Times are shown beneath each title; turn them off with Format → Event Display → Show Time in List View.
- A multi-day event appears on every day it covers, labelled "Day 2 of 6" and followed by its true overall range.
- When a month is empty, the view reads No events in this period.
- This is the most readable view in a narrow visual, and the one used automatically when the visual is very narrow.
Quarter view
Three consecutive months side by side, each a compact month grid.
- Spanning bars, lanes and the density cap behave exactly as in Month view; the overflow chip is just "+N" to save space.
- Clicking a day number switches to Day view.
- The natural view for campaign plans, release trains, quarterly capacity and anything where three months read together.
Year view
All twelve months of the year as mini calendars, four across.
- A day with events carries a small coloured dot in the colour of its first event — this is a density overview, not a detail view.
- Clicking a month name switches to Month view for that month; clicking a day switches to Day view.
- Use it as the entry point for a drill-down report: year → month → day, all inside one visual.
Very narrow visuals
Below 300 pixels wide, the Calendar automatically switches to List view — a seven-column grid is unreadable at that size. It returns to the chosen view as soon as there's room again. (If List view is disabled, it falls back to the Default View instead.)
This makes the visual safe to place in a narrow sidebar or a phone-layout report page.
Related
- Event display & styling — density, colours, working hours and holidays.
- Interactivity & cross-filtering — what clicking an event does.
- Formatting reference — the Calendar card's settings in one table.