> ## Documentation Index
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# Calendar View: Time-Based Planning

> A guide on how to set up and use the Calendar View in Luklak, leveraging your Date fields to visualize deadlines, schedule events, and manage time-based work.

## What is the Calendar View?

The **Calendar View** provides a familiar and intuitive way to visualize your `🧊 Objects` on a standard monthly, weekly, or daily calendar layout. It is the perfect tool for managing deadlines, scheduling events, and planning work that is tied to specific dates.

If the `Timeline View` is for long-term project scheduling, the `Calendar View` is for day-to-day time management.

\[Image Placeholder: A screenshot of a monthly Calendar View. Several `🧊` Objects appear as colored event blocks on different days, showing their names and due dates.]

## Configuration: Mapping Your Dates

To display your `🧊 Objects` on the calendar, you must tell Luklak which `Date` fields to use.

1. In the Calendar view's settings, find the **"Date Mapping"** option.
2. **`To display 🧊 Objects with a single important date (like a deadline):`**
   * Map the **"Date"** or **"Start Date"** setting to your primary `Date` field (e.g., `Due Date`). The `🧊 Object` will appear as a single-day event on the calendar.
3. **`To display 🧊 Objects that span a date range (like an event or a vacation):`**
   * Map the **"Start Date"** setting to your start date field (e.g., `Event Start`).
   * Map the **"End Date"** setting to your end date field (e.g., `Event End`). The `🧊 Object` will appear as a bar stretching across multiple days on the calendar.

<Tip>
  You can create multiple calendar views for the same set of `🧊 Objects`. One calendar could show their `Due Dates`, while a second calendar could show their `Publication Dates`, giving you different temporal perspectives on your work.
</Tip>

## Working with Your Calendar

The Calendar View is designed for easy planning and interaction.

### Changing Views

Easily switch between **Monthly**, **Weekly**, and **Daily** layouts using the controls at the top of the calendar to get the right level of detail for your planning needs.

### Drag and Drop to Reschedule

Need to change a deadline? Simply **click and drag** an `🧊 Object` from one day on the calendar and drop it onto another. This action will instantly and automatically **`update the Date field`** on that `🧊 Object` to the new date. It's the most intuitive way to manage your schedule.

\[Guidejar Placeholder: A short tutorial showing a user dragging a task event from 'Tuesday' to 'Thursday' on the calendar. After dropping the event, a success notification appears.]

### Creating New Objects

You can quickly create a new `🧊 Object` for a specific day by **`clicking the + icon`** that appears when you hover over a date on the calendar. This will open the new `Object` creation form with the date field already pre-populated.

## What's Next?

You have now mastered all the primary ways to visualize your data for project management and scheduling. The final standard view helps you track the conversation and activity happening around your work.

* [**Learn to track conversations: Updates View**](/en/02-platform/platform-overview/workview/updates-view)
* [**Return to the Workviews Overview**](/en/02-platform/platform-overview/workview)