Timebutler offers the following calendar views:
- Annual view of your own entries
- Annual view of a specific colleague’s entries (for managers and admins)
- Monthly view across multiple employees
A yearly view across multiple employees is intentionally not available, because a calendar of that scope cannot be displayed usefully on a web page. With 50 employees, for example, it would require a table with 50 rows and 365 columns (or the reverse). That does not fit on a web page without horizontal scrolling, which makes it hard to get a clear overview of the whole year. Horizontal scrolling on web pages is avoided entirely in Timebutler because it is very difficult to use — which is why almost no websites require it.
You can, however, open the monthly view across multiple employees. You can also configure it to show a custom date range instead of the current calendar month — for example, from the 18th of one month to the 18th of the following month. This gives you a clear view of the absence situation around month transitions as well.
The calendar view includes navigation buttons above the calendar to move one month forward or back. This lets you move through calendars quickly. If you have a long list of employees and have scrolled down so that the buttons above the calendar are no longer visible, two links automatically appear in the top left to navigate one month forward or back. Clicking them takes you to the next month, starting at the same row and employee you were viewing before.
Alternative: subscribe via calendar software
If you use calendar software such as Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple iCal, you can subscribe to the Timebutler calendar directly in that application. To do so, click the tear-off calendar icon at the top of the logged-in area of timebutler.de — it is located between the globe icon and the envelope icon. Timebutler then synchronizes all entries to the calendar automatically and keeps them up to date. Third-party calendars such as Outlook offer a yearly view, which can also be printed. However, a yearly view contains a large amount of information and can become difficult to read quickly.