We at Spoiled Milk really want to ditch Google calendar and move to Backpack, but these things are stopping us:

1. Ability to make shared calendars writeable. Not being able to have a company calendar, or even enter events in personal work ones is hard.

2. Not showing the time of the event in the general calendar view makes the day overviews really hard to follow.

Also please allow the option to start the week on a Monday or Sunday. Having it Sunday only makes this feature specific to certain locales (eg., the US). This is a global product, so please make this feature global as well. :)

Like other Backpack areas, I would like to be able to e-mail appointments to my calendar.

Russell: Do you use Google Calendar as company calendar, I’ve tried it and can’t share writeable calendards there either – how do you do that?

Emil: Yes, we all have a personal calendar (unshared) a personal work calendar (shared, writeable) and a company calendar (shared, writeable). Sharing is pretty easy: Calendar settings > Share this calendar > Share with specific people > [Type in email address] > [Select write options].

Google calendar also supports toggling calendars off and on to decrease screen clutter as required. It’s a shame Backpack’s doesn’t do any of this :(

Google calendar in an iFrame in Backpack :-)

I tried to put GCal into an iframe, and while it does display the calendar and the events in Firefox, I can’t get it to work in IE6 or Opera (only tried it on my Windows machine at work). W/ IE6 or Opera, it only displays the calendar, but no events. (Edit: Found out this was a problem with missing cookie, so this isn’t relevant anymore.)

And while I can edit existing events in Firefox, the rest of the calendar seems to be read-only. I can’t add any events. There’s no control for that, and clicking into the month grid doesn’t do anything. (This problem still persists, across all browsers.)

Did anyone manage to put a fully working (w/ all browsers) calendar into an iframe?

BTW: A lot of things in the “new” Backpack don’t seem to work in IE6. Not too important to me, but wanted to mention it.

I can’t add any events. There’s no control for that, and clicking into the month grid doesn’t do anything.

Works fine for me in Firefox.

BTW: A lot of things in the “new” Backpack don’t seem to work in IE6. Not too important to me, but wanted to mention it.

Just tried it in IE6, I see what you mean about the Google cal. Also the formatting of normal Backpack pages is well off, the top of the page menu bar appears about 2inches doen the page in IE6 and the sidebar overlaps the right side of a page.

Active1, did you use a “public” link to GCal or a “private” one?
I tried to build the contents of the iframe out of combined “private” calendars.

Active1, did you use a “public” link to GCal or a “private” one?
I tried to build the contents of the iframe out of combined “private” calendars.

Private

+1 for making the shared calendar writable.

I have been working with Updatelog for several months. Although there is no way to integrate a calendar (such as iCalendar or Backpack Calendar) with this project management system, I would be very grateful if anyone can suggest a workaround, API or custom programming that could make this work.

• Somewhere like “Milestones” – can see a calendar that all members of my team can read and edit for all to see.
• The ability to create multiple calendars (for different event schedules).
• The ability to see these in an iFrame?

Backpack technical support offered no help whatsoever – only “we do not offer a calendar.” I’ve seen people mention creating an iFrame in Backpack. How do you do this?

Thank you!

would be great to have a calendar that allowed blocks of time to be reserved instead of just one point in time. it would be great to not only reserve “lunch 12pm”, but also “lunch 12pm-1pm”. this makes planning days quite a bit easier and the calendar function…well, functional. as it is now, it’s not helpful (for me, at least) to only see one point in time for an appointment when in fact appointments have variable durations.

Agreed – a start and end time for appointments is needed. This, and having the week start on a Sunday, are the main reasons I don’t use the Calendar function in Backpack.

+1 for event durations (add End Time)

+1 for company share.
Linked with Thunderbird/Mozilla calender if possible.
ability to only view a specific calender at a time, colours are great but still tough to focus on just one like milestones or holidays calenders.

Thanks

+1 for event durations (add End Time) ... please

+1 for selecting first day of the week based on locale/preference

Also, I would like week numbers displayed.