A.  General Overview

1. The Children's Calendar (Purple) - All events related to our Children's Ministry Program
2. The Youth Calendar (Red)- All events involving our Youth and Youth Programs
3. The Church Calendar (Medium Blue) - All events associated with the Church other than those on the Children's Calendar or the Youth Calendar
4. The Main Calendar (Light Blue) - A consolidation of all the events from the above three calendars.  This is the calendar where everything is shown.

The Staff Calendar is for use by the SPPC Staff and requires a user identification (ID) and password for access.

The final button in this grouping is the "Help" button which brings you to this screen.

The information on all the calendars is shown in a grid or list format for various time periods.  You have the option to see the information by day, week, 2-week, 3-week, 4-week, or monthly time period and all with a single click. On the monthly calendar a visitor can move to any month in the year or to the previous year or to next year again with a single click.  The weekly views are shown in the same fashion and increment by week. 

Searching for Events - The viewer can also search for key words in the calendar title or descriptions using an intelligent search form and a date range.  Many items are included as recurring events - they occur on a regular schedule and only need to be entered one time in order to be shown for a year or more.  Our early and late Sunday Worship Services are examples of a recurring event.  Recurring events will only show up on a search if the beginning time period you enter is earlier than the date the event was entered.  For example, if you search for "Worship Service", you will only find it by entering a beginning date of February 1, 2004 or earlier because these events were entered into the calendar in early February 2004.
 

B.  Using the Floating Navigation Menu At The Top Of Screen

The floating navigation menu at the top of the screen works in exactly the same fashion as it works on all the other pages of the site.  As you move the cursor over an menu option it changes color and can be selected using the left mouse button.  If the item has a submenu, the submenu will pop up and you can select one of these submenu items by moving the cursor down the list to highlight one of the items.  Selections are made by highlighting the selection and using your left mouse button.
 

C.  Using the On Screen Selection Buttons to the Left of the Calendar

1. The top two buttons toggle the view between a regular calendar grid format and a standard list format.
2. The next six buttons change the calendar time frame and range from a "Today" view to a week, 2-week, 3-week, 4-week, or monthly time period.  The remaining five buttons select the specific calendar you wish to see as described above in section "A".  Again, access to the "Staff" calendar requires a user identification (ID) and password and it's use is limited strictly to the SPPC Staff.
3. The "Search" button will allow you to search for words, events, etc. on the calendar you are currently viewing.  If you are on the "Youth" calendar the search function searches for words only on the Youth calendar.  If you are on the "Main" calendar, the search will include all calendars (Children's, Youth and Church).
4. The "Login" button is used by the Staff to access the various calendars to add, change or delete events. 

You will see that the "Title" of events is all that is shown within the calendar grid or on the calendar list.  You will notice that when you move the cursor over the title you can see there is a hyperlink which when clicked, will cause a new screen to Pop-Up which has all the information about this particular event.  The Pop-Up screen lists the Calendar where the event resides, the Date, Time, Title and a Description of the particular event.  You may print the Pop-Up by simply clicking on the "Print" button on the left top side of the colored bar on the Pop-Up.

Feel free to browse the calendars and let us know if you have any questions.  You may use the floating menu at the top of this screen to return to either the Main Calendar, Youth Calendar or Children's Calendar.