Calendar
Calendar basics
The CIMS calendar will show space sales, burials, funerals and work order start dates. To open the calendar, click "Calendar" from the top navigation bar.
Using buttons in the top-right corner of the popup, switch between monthly, weekly and daily views of events. Navigate between frames of time using the arrow buttons to the top-right.
Events are automatically added to the calendar as you enter information into CIMS; if you sell a space, it is automatically shown on the calendar as a space sale on the date recorded as the "Sold date". You can also use the "Add event" button in the bottom-left corner of the calendar popup to explicitly add an event. The calendar uses abbreviations due to lack of space (see the key below).
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| B | Burial |
| E | Event |
| F | Funeral |
| S | Space sale |
| WO | Work order |
Subscribing to the calendar
Want to see CIMS calendar events on your personal calendar, such as Google Calendar, Outlook or iCal? You can use a calendar subscription!
CIMS calendars subscriptions operate like a one-way street - calendar events can flow out from CIMS and automatically show on your third-party calendar, but events from your third-party calendar will never flow into CIMS and show on the CIMS calendar.
To set up a calendar subscription:
- First, you will need to enable calendar subscriptions in CIMS. Click on the name of your cemetery in the top-left corner of CIMS, then click "Cemetery settings".
- Click the "Configuration" tab, scroll down to the bottom to a section labelled Allow CIMS calendar subscriptions. Click the checkbox there, making sure to read the warning carefully. By enabling calendar subscriptions, calendar events will be viewable to the public if anyone guesses the calendar subscription URL. Click "Update cemetery settings".
- The cemetery should entirely refresh; if it does not, refresh your page.
- Open the calendar from the top navigation bar; in the bottom-right corner will be a "Subscribe" button. Click that button.
- Follow the directions that will appear above the button, making sure to pick your correct time zone. There are different directions for Google, Outlook and iCal calendars.
To disable calendar subscriptions, simply unclick the checkbox you initially clicked on in your cemetery settings' Configuration tab and click "Update cemetery settings".