Calendar

This feature is available on all plans.
Users with the view publishing calendar permission can access this page.

Managing your content and ensuring it is delivered on time can be challenging. This is where EasyContent's Publishing Calendar comes in.

Our Publishing Calendar lets you schedule and organize all your upcoming content in a single place, ensuring everything is delivered on time. It's tightly integrated with other EasyContent tools and features, making content creation seamless.

In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to using EasyContent's Publishing Calendar to optimize your content management process and streamline your content creation and publishing workflow.

Let's get started!

To access the content calendar, click "Calendar" in the account menu. If you can't see it, you probably don't have access to this feature. If you believe that you should have access, contact your account administrator.

Once you're on the publishing calendar page, select the project you want to view using the project selection dropdown. Available projects depend on your permission and what projects you're assigned to. If you have the "manage projects" permission, you will be able to see all projects.

💡If you are currently inside a project and you access the calendar, that project will automatically be selected as the active project in the calendar.

Calendar Filters

Once a project is selected, various filters will appear, and content items will also show up. Note that only content items with a due date on at least one of their workflow statuses will appear in the content calendar.

Let's see what each filter does:

Status - this displays all content items with a due date for the selected status. For example, if you select "editorial review" here, the calendar will display all content items with a due date for their "editorial review" status, regardless of whether they are currently in that status or not.

Current Status - this displays all content items currently in the selected status. For example, if you select "editorial review" here, only content items that are currently in that status will be displayed.

Category - this displays all content items with the selected categories.

Assigned people - this displays all content items assigned to the selected user(s), even if the said content item's current status is assigned to a different user.

Template - this displays all content items that are using the selected template(s).

Month and Week View

You can switch between month and week views. Click on the tabs shown below to switch.

The month view provides a broad overview of your publishing calendar, showing important dates and events for the selected month at a glance. The week view offers a more granular view of your schedule, making it easier to manage your daily tasks and deadlines for the chosen week.

Changing a Content Item's Due Date and Assigned Users

In the month view, click and drag on a content item to change its due date.

You can also click on a content item, and the item detail popover will appear. Then click "manage deadlines" to update its due dates or change its assigned users.

Item Details Popover

Let's take a better look at the item details popover.

The first section (#1) displays the content item's target status on that date and the user responsible for it at that time.

The second section (#2) tells us what the content item's next status will be after the first section's status.

The third section (#3) tells us its current status and its due date.

Finally, at the bottom, is the manage deadlines link. When clicked, a modal will open that lets you change the item's assigned users and due dates.

Creating Content Items

You can create new content items in the content calendar. To do so, click the green "Add item" button in the top right corner of the page.

You can also click on a space in a date to create a new content item:

If you do it this way, the content item will automatically have that date set as its first workflow's due date.

Creating Events

You can also add events to the content calendar. Click a space in a date, then click Add event.

The Create New Event modal will appear to let you create your event.

• Title/summary - your event's name, e.g., "SEO workshop".
• Date - start date and the optional end date. If no end date is selected, this will become a one-day event.
• Description - your event's detailed description.
• Color - select from a predefined set of colors to make it easier to distinguish among other events, especially if you have multiple ones.

Click the "create event" button, and your event will be created.

Like content items, you can also drag and drop an event within the content calendar to adjust its start and end date. To edit an event, click it, then click "edit event".

Conclusion

We hope that this article has helped show you the various features and benefits of our Content Calendar. Now, you can effectively streamline your content creation and publishing workflow, ensuring that your content is delivered on time and to a high standard.

If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team at support@easycontent.io