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To integrate your Teamup Calendar into your Facebook fan page as a tab, we recommend to use the Static iFrame Tab App.

Teamup Calendar is similar to Google Calendar but different in that no registration or account is required. Access to Teamup Calendar is made easy with custom links that can be shared with any Web users, while the access rights of each link are highly configurable.

In this tour the key features of Teamup Calendar are highlighted and explained.

Click to start the tour.

We have just launched the Teamup Calendar Facebook Fan Page:

www.facebook.com/teamupcalendar.

There are two Live Demo tabs right below the Timeline cover photo, one showing a demo event calendar in the List view and the other showing a demo reservation calendar in the Week view.  This is how your Teamup Calendar can look like when it is integrated into your Facebook fan page.

Please click "Like" on our fan page if you like it!  Thank you for your support.

Today we released Teamup Calendar V1.4. This new version includes support for a new list view (see right). This new view complements the existing daily view, weekly view and monthly view.

List view shows events as a chronologically sorted list. The date range is selectable. This new view lends itself very well to scenarios where there are few events spread out over a longer period of time or where most events are all-day events. This feature was requested by several of our users and we have responded to their needs.

Our next major enhancement will be support for recurring events. This is already in the making and should be ready for a release soon.

Your feedback is welcome

Gabe

We have created a series of screen demos to help new users get up to speed quick.  The screen demos start with the newly released "List" view of the calendar, which can be easily changed to the classical calendar view.

Besides the basics, one screen demo shows step by step the various customization and sharing options that are unique features of Teamup Calendar.

Check out the demos at the Live Demo page.

As Teamup Calendar uses secret links, also known as sharable URLs, to share calendars with various user groups, users normally bookmark the links or keep them in email.  If you are an active Facebook user, you can also take advantage of Facebook's bookmarklet.  Just drag the bookmarklet to your Bookmarks Bar to quickly share your calendar or any other web page with your friends, even when you're not on Facebook.

Version 1.3 of Teamup Calendar went online today. This version contains two major improvements:

• The event editor was redesign to support now a WYSIWYG editor for the description field. This enables formatting of the event description with titles, different font styles, bullet lists and ordered lists. Furthermore, it is now possible to insert active hypertext links into the event description.
• The second major enhancement is the addition of an event viewer with printing support for individual events. The event viewer offers a read-only view of an event with all details available and is used to display event details whenever a user does not have the right to change an event.

Happy calendaring

This case illustrates how to use Teamup Calendar to optimize the work flow of allowing multiple party content submissions and selectively publishing as desired.

A travel accommodation booking agency operates a web site which contains a popular event calendar for local events.  Her dilemma is that it takes too much time to continuously research and enter the event information into the Web site.  A possible solution with Teamup Calendar would help reduce the research work needed and minimize the data entry by encouraging event organizers to submit event info directly on a calendar set up for them with modifier permission, while the agency administrator would mainly be reviewing the submitted content and selecting those appropriate events for publishing by embedding a read-only event calendar into her web site.  Below are a few screen shots to illustrate this process:

We are happy to announce the release of Teamup Calendar 1.2. This new version includes support for user interface skinning. Skinning allows users to change the look of Teamup Calendar in the configuration. Currently, two looks are supported: The existing blue theme and a new gray theme.

This feature has been requested by users that embed Teamup Calendar into their Web sites. The blue look available in the past did not fit very well with some existing web sites designs that use strong colors. The new gray look is very plain and should fit well with most existing web sites. To change the look, a new configuration option was added to the general settings dialog.

To see the two looks in action, check out our live examples:

• Example 1: Blue look
• Example 2: Gray look

Additionally, a few minor improvements have been implemented as well:

• There is now a new 3-Day calendar view available.  This fills a gap between the existing daily view and the weekly view.
• The new application wizard was completely redesigned. It is now more intuitive to use.
• A number of minor fixes have been implemented.

Our Christmas present for you is Teamup Calendar V1.1.0, which was released today. The focus of this new release has been more fine-grained control over access to calendars.

A Teamup Calendar application supports multiple calendars. Access to the application is provided through secret web links that you create and configure in the settings dialog. The number of secret web links for an application is not limited. For each secret web link, you are now able to configure which of the available calendars are visible and what permissions apply. Available permission levels are administrator, modifier, reader with details, reader without details and no access.

Here is an application scenario to illustrate the new capabilities. Suppose you are managing the availability of three hotel conference rooms. Teamup Calendar is well suited to support such a scenario. First of all, you will need to create a new instance of Teamup Calendar at www.teamup.com. Inside that Teamup Calendar instance, create three calendars representing your conference rooms and name the calendars accordingly, for example "Conference Room 1", "Conference Room 2" and "Conference Room 3".
Now suppose that the reception staff needs to be able to lookup conference room availability as well as make reservations for conference rooms. To support that need you could create a new secret web link that provides access to all three calendars with the permission to read and modify events.
Furthermore, suppose that you have the requirement to publish conference room availability on the hotel's public web site. To address that requirement you could setup three additional secret web links, each for one of the conference rooms. Configure these links with the permission to read events without details. After integrating these three links into the hotel's web site, web visitors will be able to see busy and free slots but no event details. A new example application for this use case will become available shortly.

Let us know what you think about this new release. We wish you a merry Christmas.

We are very happy to announce the release of Teamup Calendar 1.0. The focus of this version has been on bug fixing and browser compatibility. There are no new features compared to the previous version 0.9.

While version 1.0 is an important milestone, the development does not stop here. Based on the feedback of our users, various new features are planned over the coming months. Here is an outlook of the major new features that we are considering:

• More fine-grained permission control. For each secret link that you set up, you will be able to control which resources are shared and with what permission.
• Support to embed Teamup Calendar into existing web sites
• Support for recurrent events
• Support for PDF export and printing
• Support for a new scheduler-like view

Is anything important missing on that list? Let us know!

We are happy to announce the release of Teamup Calendar Version 0.9. First of all, you may notice that the service was renamed from Teamup Reservations to Teamup Calendar.

This new release also includes a few significant new changes.

• Teamup Calendar now supports customization of its look. You can change logo, title and header color. This allows you to publish Teamup Calendar in your organizations name and look.
• The settings area of Teamup Calendar was completely redesigned to make it more user friendly.
• Various minor bug fixes

There is also a major change on the commercial side. As an introductory special, we now offer a free version of Teamup Calendar without advertising. Free versions will always remain free.

As always, your feedback is welcome.

Today, version 0.8.10 of Teamup Calendar was released. The major new feature in this version is the support for multiple languages. As the first translation, German was added. We plan to add more language after version 1.0 is released. This is now simply a matter of translating two small text files.

Additionally, we optimized the JavaScript files that make up the application by minimizing, concatenating and compressing them. Before optimization, all JavaScripts together were around 3MB in size. After optimization they are down to around 420 KB in size. This includes the entire EXT JS framework, the Extensible Calendar framework and the application scripts. With Google Chrome I measure a loading speed of typically less than 1 second. I look forward to your feedback regarding loading speed and performance of the application.

I am happy to announce the release of Teamup Calendar 0.8.9. This new version contains a few features and improvements that our test users asked for.

Specifically:

• Events have a new field "Who", which can be used to note who reserves a resource.
• Events support now tool tip that contain event title, name of person who reserved and event notes. This makes it much quicker to browse existing events.
• The calendar title bar now shows the selected date range
• Plus a number of minor improvements and fixes.

Today, we released version 0.8.8 of Teamup Calendar. This new version implements a few important missing features. The feature set for version 1.0 is now nearly complete. Until version 1.0, the focus will be on optimizing, fixing known open issues and of course to listen to your feedback. New features will be added after version 1.0.

I am happy to annouce the release of Teamup Calendar V0.8.6. The new version adds some important features:

• Support for multiple calendars per application
• Color coding of calendars
• Various bug fixes