Calendar settings

Calendar type

The Site Administrator can choose a default calendar type for the whole site here (the default is Gregorian).

Trainers can override the calendar type via Course administration > Edit settings and individuals can edit their calendar type within their user profile.

Admins see all

Specify whether Site Administrators see all calendar events or just those that apply to themselves.

This is set at the site level and cannot be overridden by an individual Site Administrator.

Time display format

Choose whether a 12- or 24-hour format is used in time specific events.

This setting can be overridden by individual via their profile within user preferences.

Start of week

Select the first working day of the week.

Weekend days

Select the non-working days of the week.

Weekend days are shown in a different colour.

Days and events to look ahead

This setting determines how many days and events are listed in the Upcoming Events block.

If the Upcoming Events block becomes too long you can reduce the number of days and events to look ahead.

Enable calendar export

When enabled users will be able to export their calendar entries and configure external calendar applications to consume calendar events directly from Totara.

Calendars can be exported into systems such as Outlook and Google Calendar.

Enable custom date range export of calendar

Enable custom date range to be defined when exporting calendars.

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Days to look ahead and back

A custom range of dates, such as a term or year, may be set as a calendar export option.

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Calendar export salt

The calendar export salt is a random string of characters used for improving of security of authentication tokens used for exporting of calendars.

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Show source information for iCal events

If enabled, the subscription name and link will be shown for iCal-imported events.

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