Overview

soSIMPLE Calendar provides a quick, easy way of adding a drag and drop calendar to your solution.

It gives FileMaker developers the tools to add a very rich, very flexible calendar interface to your FileMaker solutions.

All the features of the calendar are managed using our Calendar Builder interface – no need to mess with complicated calculations or relationship graphs. Just design the calendar in Calendar Builder, and copy and paste a web viewer onto your layout.

• Schedule new events just by double-clicking
• Easily move an event to another time by dragging it there. Existing events will politely slide out the way for you.
• Create multiple variations of the same calendar by changing the theme:
• Within FileMaker Pro & Pro Advanced, any calendar interaction runs your own script in your own solution.
• On the web, changes are immediately reflected in your database – no synchronization required (great for your customers or  your mobile sales force).
• In FileMaker Go, the interface uses iOS-like buttons
• Even your mobile web browser can get in on the action.
• Side-by-side appointment and conflicts show themselves
• Resources can be scheduled side-by-side or top-to-bottom. Change a resource by clicking and dragging.

By harnessing FileMaker’s web viewer technology, FileMaker Server capabilities, and some fancy ajax footwork, you can now seamlessly add a beautiful, visual calendar not only to your FileMaker solution, but to your web site, your ical software, and of course, your iPad.

Plus, we’ve spent a lot of time building a calendar builder and customization interface, to keep it easy. You can use our default calendar interface, or customize it further using preset templates, guided drop down menu selections or custom CSS.

soSIMPLE Calendar makes it simple to:

• Add a drag & drop calendar to your FileMaker solution without any coding
• Interact dynamically and directly with FileMaker data – no need to import or sync
• Two modes of interacting with FileMaker:
• Client-side Script: Run your own script to handle any action from your calendar (create, edit, delete) or
• Server-side Async: Update the data directly on your server, without any coding or synchronization requirements.
• Manage multiple resources (rooms, people, etc.) by dragging and dropping
• Resource view shows resources in columns, and allows you to scroll through them when you have a lot.
• Timeline view shows your resources in rows, with the time along the top.
• Multiple views – choose to any one or all:
• Year,
• Week,
• Day,
• Timeline,
• Resource,
• Weekly Agenda,
• Event List
• Flexibly Filter what shows up on your calendar
• Custom filter by field value
• Filter by Privilege Set
• Add a checkbox for those events you want to show or hide
• Color-code your data by anything you’d like.
• Read-only option
• Touch-specific templates included.
• Instant Internationalization – 19 foreign languages supported.
• Customizable interface using our FileMaker-based Calendar Builder.
• Change colors, fonts, borders, etc.
• Our built-in CSS editor means there’s no coding required
• Or, if you like CSS coding, you can add custom CSS
• Custom-formatted tooltips
• Multiple-day banners
• Options, Themes, Datasources, and Layouts can be reused for multiple calendars
• Use in your FileMaker solution by pasting a Web Viewer on your layout
• No need to edit your relationship graph
• No complicated code in the Web Viewer – just point to the calendar you created in Calendar Builder
• View multiple FileMaker files, or other calendars, at the same time
• Subscribe and feed data to Google, Outlook, iCal, etc.
• Background Ajax processing is fast and doesn’t stop you from changing layouts, or running other scripts while the screen updates.
• Works on the iPad using FileMaker Go or in any browser

FileMaker Server 9 or later (Why? See our FAQ.)

FileMaker Pro 9 or later

We recommend FileMaker Pro Advanced so you can more easily copy and paste scripts into your solution, but that’s not necessary, and we’ll show you how do it with FileMaker Pro.