Calendar sources are the separate calendars that feed your ISO Mate calendar, and settings control how the calendar looks and behaves for you. Sources come in three types: account calendars shared across your organization, personal calendars you own, and Google calendars you connect. You manage personal calendars and preferences from Calendar Settings, and toggle which sources are visible from the calendar sidebar.
Calendar source types
- Account: an organization calendar available to the account.
- Personal: a calendar you create and own, private to you unless shared.
- Google: a calendar from a connected Google account.
To connect a Google calendar as a source, see Connecting Google Calendar.
Create a personal calendar
- Open Calendar from the sidebar General group, then go to Settings.
- In the My Calendars section, click Add Calendar.
- Enter a name (for example Work or Personal) and pick a color.
- Save the calendar. It becomes available as a source when you create events.
One calendar is marked as your default and cannot be deleted. You can edit a personal calendar name or color, or delete the others, from the same My Calendars section.
How many personal calendars you can have
There is a ceiling on how many personal calendars you can hold in an organization, so that no single account can build up enough of them to slow its own calendar sidebar down. It allows around fifty for each person, which is far more than everyday use needs. Your account calendar and any calendars you connect from Google do not count towards it.
If you reach the ceiling, ISO Mate tells you when you try to add another one, and nothing is lost. Delete a personal calendar you no longer need and you can create a new one straight away. Connecting a Google calendar still works even while you are at the ceiling. If you have a genuine need for more personal calendars than this, contact support and we can raise it for your account.
The ceiling counts per organization, so if you belong to more than one, each has its own allowance. Creating calendars and events is also paced to protect the service, but only well above the speed a person works at, so you will only notice it if a script is creating records in a tight loop.
Show or hide calendars
In the calendar sidebar, use the checkbox next to each source to show or hide its events. Sources are grouped into My Calendars and Team Calendars, so you can focus on the calendars you need without deleting anything.
Calendar colors
Each personal calendar carries the color you assign when you create or edit it, and that color is used for its events on the grid. You can also set a color on an individual event in the event dialog. Team calendars shared by others display their own color.
Display and scheduling settings
Calendar Settings groups your preferences into a few areas.
- Default View: the layout the calendar opens in, either Month, Week, Day, or Agenda.
- Week Starts On: the first day of the week in the grid.
- Timezone: the timezone events display in, searchable from a full list.
- Working Hours: the start and end of your working day.
- Default Event Duration: the length applied to a new event, in minutes.
- Default Reminders: reminder offsets applied to new events, such as 15 minutes before or 1 day before.
Click Save Settings to keep your changes. To put these settings to work, see Creating and Managing Calendar Events.
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