ANTE User Manual

Calendar Module

The Calendar brings your personal events, company events, your tasks, and key HR/payroll dates together on one Google-Calendar-style grid. You can create your own events, schedule time to work on your tasks, and switch on or off the different streams of dates you want to see.

Opening the Calendar

Click the calendar icon in the top header bar (to the left of your profile). The icon highlights when you are on the Calendar. (There is no Calendar entry in the left sidebar — the header icon replaces it.)

You need the Calendar access permission to see this icon and open the page.

Page Layout

The Calendar page has three areas:

  • Toolbar (top) — sidebar toggle, Today, previous/next arrows, the current date range title, a search box, the view selector, the Tasks-panel toggle, and the Create button.
  • Left sidebar — a mini calendar plus grouped filter lists that switch streams of events on and off.
  • Main calendar (center) — the grid where events are shown.
  • Tasks panel (right, optional) — your task list, which you can drag onto the grid.

Toolbar controls

  • Menu icon — show or hide the left sidebar.
  • Today — jump back to the current date.
  • ‹ / › (previous / next) — move backward or forward one month, week, or day depending on the current view.
  • Date title — shows the range currently displayed.
  • Search box — filters the visible events by keyword (matches title, description, location, and category name).
  • View selector — choose Month, Week, Day, or Schedule. Your most recent choice is remembered and reused the next time you open the Calendar. (Week is the starting default until you change it.)
  • Tasks-panel toggle (checkbox icon) — show or hide the right-side Tasks panel.
  • Create — opens the Quick Create Event dialog.

The sidebar groups the streams of dates you can switch on and off. Each row is a checkbox; clicking it toggles that stream on the grid. Your selections are remembered between sessions.

Mini calendar

A small month calendar pinned at the top of the sidebar. Click any date to jump the main calendar to that date.

My calendars

  • Personal — events you saved only to yourself.
  • Tasks — your task deadlines (and your scheduled task time blocks). Turning this off hides both.

Company calendar

  • Department — events shared with your department.
  • Shared — events shared with specific people or with other departments.
  • Company Wide — events shared with the whole company.
  • Meetings — governance meeting events; uncheck to hide all meetings from the calendar. Archiving a meeting also removes it from the calendar, even if it's still Scheduled or In Progress; restoring it brings it back.

Payroll calendar

Read-only HR/payroll dates. You can only switch these on and off here — to change the underlying record, go to its source module.

  • Payroll Cutoff
  • Leaves
  • National Holidays
  • Local Holidays
  • Official Business
  • Certificate of Attendance

Google calendar

This section appears only when you have connected Google calendars. It lists each connected calendar with a Select all toggle at the top, and per-calendar checkboxes. You can edit or delete your own (non-system) Google-mirror categories from this list.

Calendar Views

Use the view selector in the toolbar:

  • Month — full month grid.
  • Week — weekly time-grid (the starting default).
  • Day — single-day time-grid.
  • Schedule — an upcoming-events list.

Creating Events

Step 1 — Open the create dialog

Do any of the following:

  • Click Create in the toolbar, or
  • Click a single day on the grid (opens Quick Create), or
  • Drag-select a range of days (opens the full Create Event dialog).

Step 2 — Quick Create Event

The Quick Create dialog has these fields:

  • Event title (required)
  • Date (required)
  • Time — hidden when All day event is checked
  • All day event — checkbox
  • Save to (required) — where the event lives:
    • Personal — only you can see it
    • My Department — visible to everyone in your department
    • All Users — visible to everyone in the company
    • Specific people — reveals an Invite people picker (pick at least one person)
    • Other departments — reveals a Share with departments picker (pick at least one department)
    • any connected, writable Google calendar

Click Create to save, Cancel to discard, or More options to switch to the full Create Event dialog (for other event types).

Tip

Quick Create only makes plain events. For Out of office, Focus time, Working location, or Booking, use More options to open the full dialog.

Step 3 — Full Create Event dialog

The full dialog adds an event-type tab row and more fields.

Event types (pill tabs at the top):

  • Event — a normal calendar event (default).
  • Out of office — adds an optional Auto-reply message.
  • Focus — adds a Do not disturb (mute notifications) checkbox.
  • Working (working location) — adds a Where are you working from? selector: Home, Office, or Other.
  • Booking (appointment schedule) — adds a Slot length selector (15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes) with a live count of bookable slots. (A public booking page is noted as a future update.)

Fields:

  • Title (required)
  • Start — date and time (time hidden when all-day)
  • End — date and time (time hidden when all-day)
  • All day event — checkbox
  • Location — shown for the Event type only
  • Save to (required) — same destination choices as Quick Create
  • Invite people — shown when Save to is Specific people
  • Share with departments — shown when Save to is Other departments
  • Description — shown for every type except Working location

The dialog validates that the title and dates are filled in and that the End is not before the Start.

Click Create Event to save or Cancel to discard.

Viewing and Editing an Event

Click any event on the grid to open its details.

  • Native calendar events open the Event details dialog, showing the title, date, time and duration (or an All-day pill), Saved to scope, type, category, location, type-specific details (working location, auto-reply, booking slots), notes, attendees, and the creator with created/edited dates.
    • Edit — reopens the event in the Create/Edit dialog.
    • Delete — removes the event (confirmation handled in the dialog).
    • Close — closes the dialog.
  • Google-sourced events are read-only here — a note directs you to edit or delete them in Google Calendar.
  • Task deadline chips open the task's detail dialog directly.
  • Payroll calendar chips (Payroll Cutoff, Leaves, holidays, Official Business, Certificate of Attendance) open a read-only details dialog with a status badge (Pending / Approved / Rejected / Cancelled where applicable).
  • Meetings open the governance meeting detail page; invoices, projects, engagements, and policy sign-offs open their own pages. A meeting's block on the grid always shows its planned time slot — the scheduled start time plus its agenda's total duration (60 minutes if no agenda is set) — it does not stretch to match when the meeting actually started or ended. Meetings display in their category's color, or teal when no category is set.

Moving and resizing events

  • Drag a native event to a new time or day to reschedule it; drag its bottom edge to resize it.
  • Task deadline chips and other source-owned items (meetings, invoices, etc.) cannot be dragged on the calendar — change them from their source module instead.

Scheduling Tasks (Tasks Panel)

Open the right-side Tasks panel with the toolbar's checkbox icon. It lists your tasks grouped by due date: Past, Today, Tomorrow, This week, Later, and No date.

  • Click a task row to open its task detail dialog (mark-complete lives there).
  • Drag a task onto the grid to schedule a personal time block for working on it:
    • Dropping on a timed slot creates a 1-hour block.
    • Dropping on the all-day strip creates an all-day placement.
  • Scheduling a task this way does not change the task's due date — the deadline chip and your scheduled block are independent, so a task can appear twice (once on its due date, once on the day you scheduled it).
  • Drag a placement block to move it, or drag its edge to resize it.

Managing Categories

Categories color-code your connected Google calendars in the sidebar's Google calendar list.

  • Edit or Delete a category from the sidebar list.
  • The Category dialog has a Name (required), a Color swatch picker, and an optional Description.
  • System categories show a notice and cannot be modified.
  • Deleting a category asks for confirmation and cannot be undone.

Common Tasks

Create a quick event

  1. Open the Calendar from the header icon.
  2. Click Create (or click a day on the grid).
  3. Enter the Event title, Date, and (unless all-day) Time.
  4. Choose where to Save to.
  5. Click Create.

Create an Out of office / Focus / Working / Booking entry

  1. Click Create, then More options (or drag-select a date range).
  2. Pick the event type from the pill tabs.
  3. Fill in the type-specific field that appears.
  4. Set Start, End, and Save to, then click Create Event.

Schedule time to work on a task

  1. Open the Tasks panel (toolbar checkbox icon).
  2. Drag a task onto the day/time you want to work on it.
  3. Adjust the block by dragging or resizing it.

Filter what you see

  1. Use the sidebar checkboxes under My calendars, Company calendar, Payroll calendar, and Google calendar.
  2. Type in the toolbar Search box to narrow the visible events further.

💡 Note: The "Save to" choice you pick is remembered, so your next event defaults to the same destination.

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