The Calendar Sidebar

What Is a Calendar Sidebar?

Calendar Settings
Exceptions: Entries that Won't Appear

Marking People in a Calendar Sidebar

Sharing the Calendar Sidebar
Exporting to Apple's Calendar App

Sidebars

What Is the Calendar Sidebar?

The Calendar sidebar is a list of events — a calendar in the form of a list. The calendar can be daily, monthly, yearly, or chronological and may include any event. Most common is a calendar of birth dates or anniversaries. Various settings let you make calendars for people who are: marked, unmarked, living only, or married.

To show a calendar, click Calendar in the Sidebar list.

To navigate to a person, simply single-click a name in the Calendar sidebar.

The Calendar sidebar includes gray dividing lines to provide subtitles and show the number of people matching each day/month/year (depending on the type of calendar). For example, in the illustration above you can see at a glance that there are 4 people born on January 25.

To show a calendar in the List window, where you have the ability to set up multiple columns to show more fields, click the List button (in the bottom bar, under the Calendar sidebar).

Calendar Settings

To change the contents of a calendar list, click the Settings button in the bottom bar.

The following table describes the buttons in the Calendar Settings window.

Button
Lets you...
Event
Choose the event for a calendar. This menu includes person events, marriage (includes common-law marriages), divorce, and family events.
Today
Next x days
Date
Monthly
All months Chronological
Choose the time period for the calendar: today, in the next 2 to 14 days, in any specified date, in any specified month, or in all 12 months. You can also create a chronologically sorted calendar.
"Next" includes today in its range. Thus, "Next 2 days" means today and tomorrow.
Same
Create a list of people having a specified event (Birth, Death, etc.) on the same "day," "day & month," or "day, month & year." See more details about this feature, below.
All people
Marked people
Unmarked people
Include all people, only marked or unmarked people.
Living only
exclude people...

  • with a death entry
  • with a burial entry
  • whose age is greater than the Living Age value.
Married only
Include only married couples in an anniversary list. This simply looks at whether or not there is any divorce data entered for a couple; it does not look at ages or whether somebody is still living. The Married only button only appears when Marriage is selected in the Event menu button.

When your choices are properly set up in the Calendar Settings window, click the Update button to make a new calendar list.

More About the "Same" Feature

The Same feature will make a list of people having a specified event (Birth, Death, etc.) on the same "day," "day & month," or "day, month & year."

The Same pop-up menu (in the Calendar Settings window) determines who will appear in the sidebar. The options are as follows...

This feature can be used to find people that were born or died on the same year, day, or date. For example, finding twins of couples who had two or more children in the same year.

Note that when listing siblings (the last three "Parents" options in the Same menu) the subtitle for each group in the list can be clicked to show the parents’ in the family view.

When a family event is chosen (such as Marriage) in the Event menu, the last three options in the Same menu do not appear.

An obvious application of this feature would be to search for twins (particularly, for twins who are not designated as "twin" by child status). Another would be a search for people born on the same day.

A search for people who died on the same day may provide a way to find people who died together.

This is also a handy tool for interactively finding potential duplicate entries.

Exceptions: Entries That Won't Appear

To be included in a calendar, a date entry must be sufficient for Reunion to sort properly. For example, if a great-uncle's birth date entry is "1900," he will not be included in a monthly birthday calendar. Similarly, somebody with a birth date entry such as "4 July" will not appear in a chronological calendar.

Custom dates are included in calendars; however, they are sorted according to their associated "sort date."