Understanding the calendar style settings
Trumba® Connect provides extensive flexibility in editing fonts and colors for your calendar views and spuds. In some cases, knowing which setting to change to get the effect you want can be a challenge. This topic describes the different categories of styles and how inheritance works among them. After you understand how these things work, you will know where to go to change the attribute you want, as well as how your change will affect other areas.
You can edit styles in these categories:
Style inheritance
The styles are organized in a hierarchy, in which, by default, view and spud styles inherit many of their values from the global styles. In the Edit Settings & Styles pages for spuds and views, styles that are inherited are in gray text and each indicates which style it inherits its values from.
You can edit an inherited style setting for a particular view or spud to make the style unique to it. Afterward, some changes you make in the global style sheet page overwrite your local spud settings. Specifically, if you edit a single style setting, your spud changes are not affected. If you change a font or color scheme, any spud settings that inherit from the font or color scheme take the styles set in the new color or font scheme.
If you override an inherited value on an individual view or spud, the style shows the inheritance button (
) next to it. You can click the button to reset the style to inherit the global value.
Global styles
You access the global styles on the Publish Settings tab of the Publishing Control Panel.
The global styles include color and font schemes, base page styles, and template heading and group styles. (Template groups and sub-groups appear on your calendar if you use a list-based view and set event grouping and sub-grouping.)
Styles for views and spuds
You can set the styles for each view that you provide for your main calendar spud, as well as for each spud you add. You edit styles in the Publishing Control Panel. On the Calendar Spuds tab in the Main Calendar Spud or on the other spud sections on the various tabs in the control panel, click the Edit Settings & Styles link on the view or spud you want to customize.
You can edit styles in a view or spud that inherits its value from the global settings, including setting unique styles for each view or spud. For example, in classic views, you can set colors for weekend days separately from days of the week.
Tip When you edit styles for views, the Calendar List section applies to the mix-in list that appears with the main calendar spud (above the calendar). If you have not enabled the mix-in control in your publishing settings, and instead you do not use a calendar list at all or use the calendar list (mix-in) spud, editing these styles in the view has no effect on the view.