Calendar

The calendar shows an agenda beside a day, week, or month grid, always in your studio’s time zone. Every lesson starts here as an event. Your annotations and the open times of your scheduling links show on the grid beside them.

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Views

Choose how much time you see from the Calendar menu at the top of the grid: Day, Week, Month, or a few days at a time. Step back and forward with the arrows, or click Today to come back. The agenda on the left lists everything in view by day, with an Unscheduled group at the top for events still waiting for a date. In Month view, a busy day shows “+N more”; click it to see the whole day. Most of this has keyboard shortcuts. On a phone, the calendar is the agenda only, and the grid is on tablet and desktop. See Install Harness.

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Create an event

Anything with a time can go on the calendar: a lesson, a gig, a recital, or a week off. Click Create event or press e, or click or drag across an empty part of the grid to start at that time. Every event is one of three kinds:

• A timed event has a start and an end, and sits in the grid.
• An all-day event sits in the strip above the grid and can run for several days, like a vacation. Turn on All day to make one.
• An unscheduled event has no date yet. Click Unschedule instead of saving, and it waits in the agenda until you place it.

To make an event a lesson with students and attendance, turn on the book icon (Enable Lesson). To track payment for an event that isn’t a lesson, like a paid gig, turn on the dollar icon (Enable Payment). Decide before you save, because both lock once the event is saved.

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Make it repeat

Most lessons happen every week, so you set one up once and Harness fills in the rest of the series. In the event’s window, pick a pattern from the menu by the repeat icon, which reads Once until you do. When you change, move, or delete a repeating event, Harness asks which events to change. Choose This event only to change one date, like a lesson moved for a dentist appointment. Choose This and following events to change that date and every one after it, while earlier lessons keep their attendance and charges. This is the way to change every week from now on. Use All events only from the first lesson of the series.

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Move, resize, and unschedule

Most changes to an event’s time are a drag away. Drag an event to a new time or day and it keeps its length, or drag its top or bottom edge to make it longer or shorter. Where you drop it changes what it becomes: the strip above the grid makes it all-day, and the agenda unschedules it. To schedule it again, drag it from Unscheduled back onto the grid. An unscheduled lesson keeps any charge it already has; to remove the charge, void it in Charges. You can’t take attendance until the lesson is back on the calendar. If you’d rather the family pick the new time, send a reschedule link.

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Delete an event

Deleting takes an event off your calendar for good. Click the trash icon in the event’s window, or right-click the event and choose Delete. For a repeating event, you choose which dates to delete, the same way as when you edit. Charges already recorded for a lesson stay on the account, so void them if they shouldn’t be billed.

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Time zone

Your whole calendar runs on your studio’s time zone, never your device’s, so times stay put when you travel. Harness sets it from your browser the first time you sign in, and you can change it under Timezone in Settings → Profile. The gutter left of the grid shows the offset in use, like GMT-07, so you can check it at a glance. Repeating lessons keep their clock time when daylight saving starts or ends.

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