Using sub-calendars

When you create a calendar in your Trumba account, you have an opportunity to define the calendar's relationship to other calendars in one of two different ways. You can make the calendar either a top-level calendar or a sub-calendar. This topic:

Defines top-level calendars and sub-calendars.
Suggests when to use sub-calendars.
Describes what happens with sub-calendars when you publish.

Top-level calendars versus sub-calendars

Top-level calendars and sub-calendars behave in exactly the same ways. The difference between them is purely visual, that is, how they appear in the calendar list in the Trumba Connect editing environment.

Top-level calendar.
Top-level calendars have no specific relationship to any other calendars. You can still mix them into other calendars but, visually, they stand alone.

These two top-level Product seminar calendars are independent of each other.
Sub-calendar of an existing calendar.
Visually, sub-calendars appear as children of a parent calendar, indicating that each sub-calendar makes up part of the overall top-level schedule.

For example, Product B seminar's sub-calendars are indented under their parent, indicating a relationship.

Please tell me how to create new top-level calendars and sub-calendars

When to use sub-calendars

Sub-calendars make the most sense when you're publishing different categories of events. You can create a separate sub-calendar for each category.

Giving each category its own calendar makes it easier to manage the separate schedules and provides visual confirmation that all the schedules have to work together.

For example, suppose your organization offers product seminars.

Situation	Solution
One product for which you offer one type of seminar	Create and publish one top-level calendar that contains the seminar events
One product for which you offer several types of seminars.	The top-level calendar acts as holding calendar under which the sub-calendars are organized and published. Create a top-level calendar for the product. Create a sub-calendar for each seminar type. Place all of the events on the sub-calendars, according to type.

What happens when you publish

When you publish an empty top-level calendar, on the Publish Settings page you can mix in the sub-calendars that contain events.

On the published calendar, each sub-calendar is a separate color so calendar visitors can easily distinguish one type of event from another.

Visitors to the published calendar can display the events they're interested in by selecting or clearing the check boxes beside the sub-calendar names in the Calendar List spud.

I don't know what a spud is

Please tell me how to publish calendars