Side-by-side shared calendars

摘要

Methods and systems are provided for presenting a plurality of shared calendars in a single electronic display frame or window where each of the plurality of shared calendars is displayed in a common view mode relative to other displayed shared calendars. Users may select one or more shared calendars to be displayed in the same display frame or window as their own calendar. Upon selection of a shared calendar to be displayed alongside a first calendar, an aggregate view object is called to control and coordinate all shared calendars selected for display in the common window or frame. The aggregate view object determines the view data object, including view mode (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) and other calendar display settings of the first or active calendar displayed in the common view of shared calendars.

主权项

1. A method for displaying shared electronic calendars, the method comprising:
providing a calendar software application capable of displaying a plurality of calendars simultaneously; displaying a plurality of available calendars in a first view frame of a navigation pane for selection; displaying data associated with each displayed calendar in a particular displayed calendar to which the data is associated, wherein the data comprises textual information and a plurality of icons wherein each one of the plurality icons represents at least one action associated with a calendar event; in response to receiving a user selection of at least a subset of the plurality of available calendars, displaying at least a portion of the selected subset of the plurality of available calendars in: a main view frame simultaneously in side-by-side orientation, wherein displaying at least the portion of the selected subset of the plurality of available calendars simultaneously in the main view frame comprises aligning each displayed calendar at one of the following: a common time position and a common date position, and wherein aligning each displayed calendar comprises realigning each displayed calendar at the common time position and the common date position in response to a manipulation of the one of the following: the common time position and the common date position at one of the displayed subset of the plurality of available calendars, and
a view mode indicated by a view data object, the view data object being:
obtained from a first selected calendar, the view data object being indicative of the view mode of the first selected calendar, the view mode comprising at least one of the following: a position and a size of display associated with the first selected calendar, andused to pass the view mode of the first selected calendar for displaying at least a portion of the selected subset of the plurality of available calendars and aligning each displayed calendar, anda tool bar for providing editing, display, file management, and printing functionality to specified displayed calendars.