Calendar - Add your surgery Date or Anniversary

[Kevin]

We have a new Calendar feature on this site. It's a little tricky to figure out how to use it, so I'm posting a quick little guide for it here.

The way it works: If you start a new thread, you'll be able to go into that thread and attach a Calendar date to it. It's useful for members to track each other's Surgery Dates or Anniversaries of the their surgery. So please just use it for surgery dates, no birthdays or doctor's appointments.

After you create a new thread, go back into that thread (or go into a thread that you've created in the past)

There is an Options (...) dropdown box, Click on that and then Click on Calendar Menu

Then Click on Calendar Add Recurring Yearly

Then just pick the date for the surgery or anniversary of the surgery

Now the Thread will be added to the Calendar.


We'll see how the Calendar feature does on the site. Good Luck everyone!

 

[dianeseattle]

Yay Kevin! Thank you so much for making this happen. Two other support group members, please have a look at this new feature and post your surgery date.

 

[dianeseattle]

I'm having trouble understanding the calendar feature. My screen looks different from yours, Kevin.

 

[Kevin]

Yeah, I know it's not a very easy feature to use. I wish there was an easier way to do it. As of now, it's the best option. I'm not a programmer so I have to scour the internet to find a feature like that that someone else has created and then buy it off them. I'm going to keep my eyes open for a more intuitive one though. Although, once you get this calendar figured out, it is actually real simple. It's just figuring it out for the first time that's a little rough.

 

[dianeseattle]

I think that I did figure out how to enter the date for anniversary purposes, but it didn't stick. I have to redo it every single time I post. That's never going to happen. So Kevin do you think I did it right or is that what we should all expect? Thank you for being so open to forum members' ideas

 

[Kathi_S]

Kevin, can you change the name of the event?

 

[KarenWV]

Found the calendar feature, added my surgery date & set recurring date for 20 years. Don't know if I'll ever find it again.

 

[dianeseattle]

This group is great because of the respect people voluntarily give one another. But what you see is what you get. I haven't seen a post from Kevin for years. If a feature doesn't work, there's no one to fix it. It would be fun to have all the add-ons mentioned in the posting guidelines, but maybe it's better for less to be more.

The surgery anniversary date has never worked. All my queries to the host have gone unanswered.

I've never been a member of a group that was more civil and supportive.

We don't need more bells and whistles. We have each other.

 

[dianeseattle]

I forgot to say people can make personal notes as profile posts. Check it out.

 

[Kockeyedkitty]

Do I have to do this on desktop? I can't figure it out on my phone. I had my surgery yesterday morning

 

[dianeseattle]

the built-in calendar doesn't work. You can create a signature file with a link to your profile, where you can post updates on your progress.