Timebutler offers the following calendar views:
- Yearly views of your own entries
- Yearly view of a colleague’s entries (for supervisors and admins)
- Monthly view across multiple colleagues
We intentionally don’t provide a yearly view across multiple colleagues because such a yearly calendar can’t be reasonably displayed on a web page. For example, with 50 employees you would have to display a table with 50 rows and 365 columns (or vice versa). That wouldn’t fit on a web page and would require horizontal scrolling. You wouldn’t have a good overview and couldn’t see the whole year at a glance. We avoid horizontal scrolling on web pages because users find it very hard to use. That’s why you find hardly any websites that require horizontal scrolling.
You can, however, open the monthly views across multiple employees. You can also choose to display not just the current month from the first to the last day, but from any start day, for example from the 18th of a month to the 18th of the following month. This lets you see the absence situation around month transitions as well.
You also find buttons above the calendar to navigate one month forward/back. This lets you move through the calendars quickly. And even if you have a long list of employees and have scrolled down the page so the buttons above the calendar are no longer visible, you still have a convenient way to flip through the months: when you scroll down, two new links automatically appear at the top left to navigate one month forward/back. When you click them, you go to the next month in the same row/employee where you previously viewed the calendar.
There is another alternative:
If you use calendar software such as Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple iCal, you can subscribe to the Timebutler calendar in that software (to do so, in the logged-in area of timebutler.de click the tear-off calendar icon at the top, 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 like Outlook offer a yearly view, and you can also print it. But the same applies here: a yearly view contains a lot of information and therefore becomes cluttered quickly.