The Orderwave Calendar
File this one under “powerful features that you need to start using” – I’m here to let you know about the Orderwave Calendar, a really useful tool for teams inside of Orderwave.
The Orderwave Calendar is a shared calendar that your team can use to coordinate timed events, appointments, and tasks in your account. Calendar appointments can be standalone events, like an interoffice meeting, or they can be linked to an order – a useful way to provide reminders on sensitive orders.
To create an order-linked appointment, navigate to an order, and select “Add a linked calendar appointment” under the “Action” tab on the right.
You’ll get a interface that lets you add a subject, an optional description, a date/time, a length (useful for meetings), and an optional reminder. If you’ve chosen to have a reminder, you’ll also have the ability to have other users get the reminder. You can specify entire groups of users, or specifically choose the users who you’d like to share the reminder with.
Speaking of reminders, you can choose between a pop-up reminder within Orderwave, an email reminder, or both. Pop-up reminders work great when you’re already working inside of Orderwave – perfect for users who spend all day logged in. The pop-up will also be accompanied by a chime, so you won’t miss it if you’re working in another program.
To create a standalone appointment, just click anywhere on the calendar module on the Home Tab. This appointment interface is identical to the one above, with the exception that it is not linked to anything.
The calendar module on the Home Tab will give show you the next 2 upcoming appointments in your account, so to see all of the appointments in a month by month view, click the “View Calendar” link on the calendar module. This will show you all of the appointments that have been created by you and other users that you are linked to.
I hope that you can find yourself and your team getting comfortable with these powerful new features – it’s a great way to share and disseminate information in your account in a secure and organized way.
