Frequently Asked Questions about Calendar

From ChurchofJesusChrist.org, click on the Resources link in the upper right. The calendar is in that menu. If you are using a mobile device, use the icon of a person inside a circle.

If you are using a desktop or laptop computer, try zooming out your browser page a bit using ctrl minus-sign. More events will appear. The large header at the top will soon be slimmed to give more vertical space. You can also try using the week view.

You are using an Church Account that is not associated with your membership number. Visit the Profile page of Church Account to enter your membership number. If you get a message that your membership number is already in use, you likely have two Church Accounts and need to use the other one.

Use the Choose Calendars link to select which calendars you want the left pane to show.

Usually your ward leaders are editors for the ward calendars. They can create an event and at the same time schedule the desired building and rooms. For a family event, contact the building scheduler.

From the calendar, click on the building name in the left pane.

In the left pane, click on the colored icon to the left of the calendar name.

You are showing a location (building) calendar on your calendar. Deselect the checkbox icon for that calendar.

Your building scheduler is improperly putting ward events directly on the building calendar. To properly use the calendar, your ward leaders should put the events on your ward calendars, which will also schedule the building.

This is a known problem with the print view that is being worked on.

Sign in to the calendar. It will then detect that you moved.

Only members who have email notifications turned on for that calendar on the Choose Calendars page.

Your stake clerk needs to assign you to the proper building in his Locations and Rooms option in the calendar.

Yes, this is very common. If Physical Facilities has assigned your ward to that building in their system called FMAT, access to schedule the building is automatic. However, if the other stake mistakenly created a duplicate custom location calendar for that building and is using the custom location, they will need to be contacted to get access to it.

Yes, the migration instructions are included in the help article “Managing Locations and Rooms.”

Currently location calendars can be viewed only on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org calendar. That is the difference.

No, it currently does not. We hope to offer this feature soon.

Calendar events remain in the calendar system for two years.

The calendar system is designed to allow authorized calendar editors (usually ward leaders) to create events and schedule the building themselves without going through a building scheduler. Conflicts are automatically detected by the system.

Please read the help article “Managing Locations and Rooms.”

Yes, that is performed at the stake level using the Locations and Rooms option.

You can’t, but a new calendar will automatically show on their list with checkbox icons selected.

By default, the calendar shows events in the time zone of the device you are using. If you are traveling, event times may change on your device. However, you can have times stick to a certain time zone by selecting that option in Date Options in the gear settings.

Clickable hyperlinks are not supported. But you can include the address of a link, which can be copied and pasted into a browser address field.