Subcalendars—When and how to use them
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 subcalendar. This topic:
- Defines top-level calendars and subcalendars.
- Suggests When to use subcalendars.
- Describes What happens with subcalendars when you publish.
Top-level calendars versus subcalendars
Top-level calendars and subcalendars 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.
- Subcalendar of an existing calendar.
Visually, subcalendars appear as children of a parent calendar, indicating that each subcalendar makes up part of the overall top-level schedule.
For example, Product B seminar's subcalendars are indented under their parent, indicating a relationship.
Please tell me how to create new top-level calendars and subcalendars
When to use subcalendars
Subcalendars make the most sense when you're publishing different categories of events. You can create a separate subcalendar for each category.
Giving each category its own calendar makes it easier to manage the separate schedules 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 subcalendars are organized and published.
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What happens when you publish
When you publish an empty top-level calendar, on the Publish Settings page you can mix in the subcalendars that contain events.
On the published calendar, each subcalendar 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 subcalendar names in the Calendar List spud.