← Back to Blog

How to Use the Calendar in the CRM

June 17, 2026 · tropicalhilladmin

The Calendar pulls together everything with a date on it — tasks, leads, and recurring job visits — into one scheduling view, instead of you checking three separate grids to see what's happening today.

Views

  • Switch between Month, Week, Day, and a List (agenda-style) view from the toolbar. It opens in Week view by default.

  • Use the arrow buttons in the toolbar to move forward and back; the current range is shown as the title in the middle.

What shows up on it

  • Tasks, Leads, and Jobs can each be toggled on or off with a Display checkbox — turn off whatever you don't need cluttering the view.

  • Job visits aren't a separate kind of event under the hood — they're simply tasks that belong to a recurring job, so anything you learned about tasks generally applies to job visits here too.

  • Lead events are placed based on when the lead was last created or updated, giving you a rough sense of recent lead activity alongside your scheduled work.

Filtering

  • Assigned To filters the calendar down to one specific user — the fastest way to see just your own schedule, or check what a specific teammate has on their plate.

  • Show filters by task type, and separate Task Status and Lead Status filters let you narrow further — for example, hiding anything already marked done.

Working with events

  • Hover over any event for a tooltip with its due date, type, assigned user, and — for lead-linked items — the lead's contact info and status.

  • Double-click an event to open it fully — this takes you to the Tasks or Leads page with that record's editor already open, rather than opening an editor on the Calendar page itself.

  • Drag a task or job event to a new day or time slot to reschedule it — the change saves automatically.

  • Lead events can be dragged around visually, but that move doesn't actually save anywhere — leads don't have a "due date" to update the way tasks do, so treat dragging a lead event as just a way to preview, not a real reschedule.

Color coding

  • Events are tinted using the task type's assigned color where one is set.

  • Without a type color, the event falls back to a color based on its status.

  • There's currently no on-screen legend explaining what each color means — if colors aren't obvious at a glance, check an event's type or status directly (or in Task Type/Status Maintenance settings) rather than guessing from color alone.

What Calendar can't do (yet)

  • There's no click-an-empty-slot option to create a brand-new task directly from the Calendar — go to the Tasks, Leads, or Jobs page to create one, and it will appear here automatically once it has a date.

  • There's no "Today" shortcut button in the toolbar — use the navigation arrows to get back to the current date.

  • There's no sync with an external calendar like Google Calendar — this is strictly an internal view of your CRM data.

  • There's no print or export option for the calendar itself.

A few tips

  • Use the List view when you just want a scannable rundown of what's coming up, rather than parsing a grid.

  • Filter by Assigned To before a daily huddle so each person can glance at just their own day.

  • If a lead event's position looks stale, remember it's driven by when the lead was created or last updated — not a scheduled appointment — so don't expect it to move on its own.

  • Give your task types distinct, memorable colors in Maintenance settings — since there's no legend on the calendar itself, consistent color choices are what make the board scannable at a glance.