Using the Calendar

Last updated: 3 June 2026

Using the Calendar

The Calendar is the day-to-day scheduling view. It shows appointments, sessions, and schedule blocks in a visual timeline.

How to Get There

Click Calendar in the left sidebar.

View Modes

Switch between views using the toggle in the top bar:

  • Calendar - visual timeline view (default)
    • Day view - a single day with time slots
    • Week view - a full week across columns
  • List - a tabular list of upcoming appointments (see the List View section below)

Filtering

The left panel (collapsible) contains checkboxes to filter by:

  • Clinician - show or hide specific clinicians
  • Location - show or hide specific locations

Your filter selections are saved and persist between sessions.

What You See on the Calendar

  • Appointments - colour-coded by type. Click to open the details sidebar
  • Sessions - background shading showing when clinicians are available
  • Schedule blocks - coloured blocks for lunch, breaks, holidays, etc. Click to view details

Use the zoom controls to adjust how much time is visible. There are 7 zoom levels, from a compressed overview to a detailed view with larger time slots.

Quick Actions

  • Double-click an empty slot - opens a quick-book popover pre-filled with the time and clinician
  • Drag an appointment - reschedule by dragging it to a new time slot
  • Click an appointment - opens the details sidebar with full information and action buttons

Top Bar Actions

The top bar provides quick access to:

  • Block - create a schedule block
  • Session - create a new session
  • Full Booking - open the full appointment booking form

Operational Board

If enabled, the Operational Board button opens a panel with pinned notes for the day. Notes can be colour-coded, set to expire, and are visible to all staff viewing the calendar.

Tip: Use the Day view with clinician filters to focus on a single clinician's schedule during a busy clinic.n Appointment

  • How to Manage Schedule Blocks
  • How to Manage Clinician Sessions

List View

The List view provides an alternative to the visual calendar. It is useful when you want to see all appointments in a simple, scannable format.

To switch to the List view, click List in the view toggle at the top of the page.

The List view organises appointments into time-based blocks, grouped by session. Each block shows:

  • The time range and session name
  • Appointments within that block, including patient name, appointment type, and clinician
  • Colour coding matching the calendar view

Appointments not attached to a session appear as standalone entries.

The same clinician and location filters from the left panel apply to the List view. Use the List view on high-volume days when you need a quick overview of all scheduled appointments across clinicians.

Choosing a view: Day, Weekday, or Week

In the calendar toolbar you can switch between three time-range views:

  • Day — a single day's appointments and sessions.
  • Weekday — Monday to Friday only. Useful if your practice doesn't run weekend clinics and you don't want Saturday/Sunday columns taking up screen space.
  • Week — the full seven-day view. Weeks start on Monday, matching UK convention.

Navigation, prefetching, and the way appointments render are identical across these views — only the column count differs.

Diary visible range and working hours

The time range you see in the diary (the hours that show from top to bottom in the Day, Weekday and Week views) follows your practice's configured opening hours.

If you have an appointment or a session that falls outside opening hours — for example an early Admin Time block or a late evening clinic — the visible range automatically expands to fit it, so nothing gets clipped off the top or bottom of the diary.

The time axis is always aligned to clean hour boundaries (e.g. 08:00, 09:00, 10:00…) for readability.

To change your opening hours, go to Settings → Practice → Hours. See Practice Details & Locations for the full guide.

Cancel a session from the right-click menu

Right-clicking an appointment that's part of a session now offers a Cancel session… action alongside the per-appointment options. It launches the same designed confirmation modal as the session drawer — review the impacted bookings, then confirm. Useful when you've spotted the problem from the diary itself and don't want to navigate to the session sidebar first.

Appointment buffers on the diary

If an appointment type has a buffer set before or after it, the calendar and list views show that protected time as a faint shaded band in the appointment's own colour, just before and/or after the appointment. It's a visual reminder of the gap you keep clear around those bookings — it doesn't change what can be booked, it just makes your buffers visible at a glance. (Set buffers on an appointment type under Configuration → Appointment Types → Scheduling.)

Reserved slots ("Booking in progress")

When a patient is partway through booking a slot online, that slot appears on the diary as a hatched "Booking in progress" band, so you don't accidentally book over it while they're mid-checkout. It's read-only and clears automatically when the patient finishes booking, cancels, or the reservation expires.