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Your events in PWR Apps are displayed in calendar views. When you create calendars from a PWR Apps object, the data in the date fields are shown as calendar items. In a day, week, or month view, users can add, and edit the events.

Configurations of a calendar component

Model:

The connection between the field and the event is the model. when a user performs any action in an event, then a model needs to be bound. but in a calendar, only multirecord models are working. so users need to create a multi-record model.

  • Creating a multi-record model is shown below

    • Click on the "+" icon. The model will open

    • An create a model

  • Click the "+" icon to add this model to the layout configuration

  • When users select Run & Preview, the calendar layout will display

  • By selecting the "Calendar" icon, the user can choose a day, a month, and a year

  • By selecting the "Month" dropdown, the user can choose a month, week, and a day

    • There are different modes to display in the calendar

      • Month

      • Week

      • Day

New

  • The user has been required to create a workflow for a "New" action

  • Go to the layout config

  • In order to create a workflow, click the "+" icon

  • Drag and drop the push model, then enter the details

  • Click "Event" to add a workflow in the new action

  • Choose the workflow action from the drop-down menu

  • Add the workflow

  • Go to the preview page

  • To enter a record, select the "new" button

  • The layout will open and from this layout, a user can enter a record

  • The record will display in the calendar view

Refresh

  • The user can reload any previously saved information by using the refresh button

How to Configure:

  1. Goto Components tab

  2. Search and select the component

  3. Drag and drop the component in the layout. You can also select the drop zone in a layout and then click on the component it will add in place of the drop zone

Following are the common configurations of components on the layout:

  • UI:

    • Component Size: The user can modify the size of the component in the layout as per grid size

    • Padding Location: Defines the position of the padding for a component. The padding creates extra space within a component.

      • Around: Creates padding around the component

      • Top: Creates padding at the top of the component

      • Left: Creates padding at the left side of the component

      • Bottom: Creates padding at the bottom of the component

      • Right: Creates padding at the right side of the component

      • Horizontal: Creates padding horizontally

      • Vertical: Creates padding vertically

    • Padding Size: The padding size of the component can be set to:

      • None

      • xxx-small

      • xx-small

      • x-small

      • Small

      • Medium

      • Large

      • x-large

      • xx-large

    • Style: Styles described how fields should be rendered in preview mode. Users need to create one cdn link from the CSS tab on the layout designer page for use styles

    • Classes: Classes are used to apply unique styling and formatting to the fields in preview mode. Users need to create one cdn link from the CSS tab on the layout designer page for using classes

    • Margin Location: Defines the position of the margin for a component. margin creates extra space around a component.

      • Around: Margin gets added around the component

      • Top: Margin gets added at the top of the component

      • Left: Margin gets added at the left side of the component

      • Bottom: Margin gets added at the bottom of the component

      • Right: Margin gets added at the right side of the component

      • Horizontal: Margin gets added horizontally

      • Vertical: Margin gets added vertically

    • Margin Size: The margin size of the view can be set to:

      • None

      • xxx-small

      • xx-small

      • x-small

      • Small

      • Medium

      • Large

      • x-large

      • xx-large

    • Visibility:

      • Never: The field cannot be visible

      • Always: The field will be always visible

      • Conditional: Depending on the visibility criteria, the field can be set as visible or not

    • Read-only:

      • Never: The field cannot be read-only

      • Always: The field will be always read-only

      • Conditional: Depending on the read-only criteria, the field can be set as read-only or not 

    • Disable:

      • Never: The field cannot be disabled

      • Always: The field will be always disabled

      • Conditional: Depending on the disability criteria, the field can be set as disabled or not

    • New Section:

      • Layout item Label: This field show the name of the components with the count of its usage e.g: if you are adding the section for third time in a layout then it will display with label of Section 3

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