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Opening the Record Behind a Calendar Entry

What the details window shows for read-only calendar entries and how the Open link takes you to the document, item, task or crew document itself.

  • Management
  • Captain & crew

Everything on the calendar except your own calendar events is a read-only reflection of a record kept somewhere else. Clicking one opens a summary window rather than an editing form: the window header names the area the entry came from — Documents, Inventory, Maintenance, Tasks, Certificate or Task Milestone — above the record's own name, and the only button is Close.

What each summary shows

  • Documents — Expires (or Survey due on a survey entry), Doc Number, Tags, Issuer and the description.
  • Inventory — Expires, Part Number, Internal Part Number, Model, Location, Category, Manufacturer and the description, with a quantity indicator on the link card.
  • Maintenance — Due Date, Assigned, Priority, Run hours, Parts and the description.
  • Tasks — Due Date, Assigned, Priority, Status and the description.
  • Certificate — Crew member, Certificate date and Due date.
  • Task Milestone — Due Date, Status and the description, plus the task it belongs to.

Expiry and survey dates carry a note of how far away they are — the number of days remaining, today, or how many days overdue — and are highlighted when the date is within thirty days or already past. Task and milestone due dates are shown as plain dates, highlighted once they are in the past.

At the bottom of the summary, under a heading of Link, is a card with an Open action. Clicking it closes the window and takes you straight to the record: the document in its category, the item in its inventory category, or the task in its list — a completed maintenance task opens in the maintenance history rather than among the open tasks. Most cards name the record they lead to; on a crew document the card simply reads View certificate and opens the crew document on its own page. On a milestone the heading is Task instead of Link, and the card opens the task that owns the milestone.

When Open does nothing

The link card is deliberately inactive in a few cases:

  • You do not have permission to work with that record — for example you may see a document's expiry date on the calendar without being allowed to edit documents in its category.
  • The document, inventory item or crew document has been archived.
  • The vessel does not have the module that owns the record.

In all of those cases you can still read the summary; only the jump to the record is switched off. To change the record itself — move a due date, renew a certificate, correct an expiry date — go to the area that owns it. Editing there is reflected on the calendar the next time it loads.