HappenBoard → Calendar shows everything you have scheduled. You can create, reschedule and publish events without leaving the screen.
The four views
- Month: a six week grid, including a few days from the neighbouring months so every row is full. Each day shows up to three events, then a +N more button that opens a popover listing the whole day.
- Week: seven day columns against an hour axis. All-day events sit in a strip above the grid, timed ones are positioned by their start and duration, and overlapping events sit side by side.
- Day: a single full-width column with the same hour axis.
- Agenda: a flat list of the next 60 days grouped by date, skipping days with nothing on them. Today and tomorrow are labelled as such.
The view you last used is remembered in your browser, so the screen reopens where you left it. The week starts on whichever day is set in Settings → General. Week and Day open scrolled to the morning rather than to midnight, and draw a line across today’s column at the current time.
Moving around
The toolbar has a previous button, Today, and a next button. What one step means depends on the view: a month, a week, a day, or the whole 60 day agenda window.
There are keyboard shortcuts too. The left and right arrow keys step backwards and forwards, and T jumps to today. They are ignored while you are typing in a field, so the search box keeps its keys.
Search and filters
Search events matches event titles. It waits until you pause typing before it queries the server, so it stays responsive on a busy calendar.
Below the toolbar is the filter bar. Add filter offers Category, Tag, Venue and Organizer. Each active filter becomes a chip: click the chip to change its value, use the close button on it to drop that filter, or Reset to clear them all. Your filters are remembered in your browser between visits. The category chip carries the category’s color swatch, which comes from the color you set on the category.
Grouping the Day view
In Day view only, a Group by selector appears with three options: No grouping, By venue and By organizer. Grouping gives one column per venue or organizer that has an event that day, plus an Unassigned column for events with none. It is the fastest way to see how a multi-room day is laid out. Creating venues is what makes the venue grouping useful.
Week and Day views also flag double bookings. Two events in the same venue whose times overlap are both marked, so a clash is visible before anyone turns up.
The color legend
Under the calendar sits a legend. It lists only the categories that have a color and that actually appear in what is currently on screen, so it explains the tints you can see rather than every category you own. Categories with no color are left out.
Creating an event
New event in the header opens the create modal on today’s date, and the arrow beside it offers the block editor instead.
You can also create from the grid itself. Click a day number, or the plus that appears when you hover a day cell, and the modal opens with that date already filled in. In Week and Day views, clicking an empty slot does the same. A month with nothing scheduled shows an empty state inviting you to click a day.
The event preview
Clicking an event chip opens a preview popover containing:
- The event title, linking to the public event page in a new tab.
- When, plus Venue and Organizer when they are set.
- Attendees going, the number of confirmed sign-ups. See capacity and available seats for how that number relates to your cap.
- Quick edit as the main action, with links to Full editor and Attendees.
- A status toggle, reading Set to draft on a published event and Publish on one that is not live yet.
Events that are not published are drawn differently on the grid, so drafts and pending events are easy to spot among live ones.
Drag to reschedule
In Month view, drag an event chip onto another day. HappenBoard keeps the time of day and the duration, and only changes the date. Dropping it back on its own day does nothing.
In Week and Day views you can drag an event to a different day or hour, and drag its bottom edge to change the end time.
Recurring events are the exception. Moving a single date of a series is a Pro feature: without Pro the move is refused with a message and the event snaps back to its rule date, because shifting the base times would move every date at once. With Pro active, the preview popover also offers to reschedule that one date, reset it back to the series time, and skip or restore it. Editing a single date in a series covers that in full.