event owner doesn't show on shared calendars

Problem reported by Carla Rogg - 2/8/2016 at 5:43 PM

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We have a small organization of about 25 people. We all have shared our calendars with one another and its great that we can choose a color to represent each individual. However, some are not as good at recognizing colors as others. The issue here is very simple, The owner of an event(s) name does not appear on the event, not in the hover, nowhere! Why not? What we have is a calendar full of colors and no one know what event is owned by whom unless they type their name in the description of the event. Sorry guys ... this is just stupid.

Mike Stephens

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kevind Replied

2/8/2016 at 8:25 PM

Mike, can you click on the item to see the calendar name (owner)? That's how Google's calendar works.

Would a 'legend' on the left that shows everyone's calendar color help? Read and vote for it here:

http://portal.smartertools.com/community/a86727/left-pane-for-calendar-other-ui-enhancements.aspx

Kevin

Carla Rogg Replied

2/8/2016 at 8:53 PM

Yes, you can do that. But if google has that same behavior then shame on them when there are more calendars than just the one owner of the account. When you have 25 people setting meeting events and the calendar is filled with color, who in their right mind wants to click on every item in a months calendar to see who owns or even attends any given event? Especially, when its a meeting that 15 people are to attend? I'm gonna click 15 times to see who's in the list of colors to see who is attending this meeting ... NOT me! Even if the hover of the event would show the owner/attendees name would be better than it is now. Clearly others must not be using the SmarterMail calendar the way we are or someone else would see all this clicking as a nuisance. As for a legend well that's fine as long as you don't have the issue as described above where some users can't tell one color from another when they are close in color(just a shade or so off). Its clear that all the info needed here is present when the calendar displays (just look at the inspect of the page). Seems ridiculous to not show owner/attendees names. Such a simple thing to do.

Carla Rogg Replied

2/8/2016 at 9:09 PM

Carla Rogg Replied

2/8/2016 at 9:10 PM

Here's a typical week on the calendar.
And what would it be like if we had 50 people instead of 25?
Just needs some relief here guy's ... that's all.
Mike

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