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Within Trumba, we offer RSS, CSV, iCal, XML and JSON feeds. When you select Publish>Feeds tab on your Publisher account, you can select Edit Settings & Styles for your Feed type. When you select RSS feed for example, there are numerous settings that control what gets included in the feed as well as how much data (Start and End), Number of events, Date formats and more! There are also numerous ways you can manipulate the feeds. Here is a help topic on how you can customize your feeds: https://www.trumba.com/help/api/customfeeds.aspx

In Trumba, you can create repeating (recurring) events without having to specify a date on which the event will end. Just select the No End Date option in the Event Information form. This is especially convenient for events such as birthdays that don't logically end at any particular time. Even when you select No End Date, repeating events don't last forever. Daily or weekly events have a 2 year limit. Monthly events have a 20 year limit. Annual events have a 200 year limit. To learn more about repeating events, see Add a repeating event.

Once you are logged in to your Trumba account, select Account Settings in the upper right corner of the account. It is also here that you can change the password on your account. You can also contact Trumba Support (support@corp.trumba.com) and we can help change the email address on the account for you.

Your account display name matters because that's the name that other people see on calendars you publish or send through email. To see what your display name is, look at the top of any Trumba page. Above the links for Account Settings and Address Book, you'll see "Signed In as DisplayName." To change your display name, click Account Settings at the top of any Trumba page. On the Account Settings page, for Display Name, type the display name you want to use. Click OK.

A calendar's name is the name you see displayed in the Your Calendar's list. To change a calendar's name, click the name in the Your Calendar's list to display the calendar. (You can also select the blue drop down arrow to the right of the calendar name and select Calendar Settings.) Click Settings above the calendar. On the Settings page, for Calendar Name, type the name you want. Click OK.

Does Trumba offer support for European date formats (dd/mm/yyyy)?

All events are displayed in chronological order, based on start date/start time. For all day events, many of which may have started in the past and continue through today, do take top priority as those events have already "started". When events have the same start day and start time, we then position the event in alphabetical order. Trumba calendar views also can be configured to display events in the default Ascending order and also Descending order.

Just FYI, there is now a Help topic that illustrates the use of time zones with a travel calendar. You can see the topic at: Time zones in action: A travel example

Within Trumba, you can only store email addresses in your Trumba Address Book. You can also create Groups within your Address Book to better manage email addresses. https://www.trumba.com/help/trumbacontacts.aspx

If you have a bunch of contacts, you can copy/paste them in to the Address Book or import the email addresses. To learn more about importing contacts, see Import email addresses from another program. For tips on exporting contacts from other programs to get them into a format you can import, see Tips for exporting contact files.

Q: In a calendar I want absolute assurance an event I have specified as recurring will always be there -- and it worries me that a weekly event that occurs at a particular time only lasts for so many months -- I don't want to have to re-enter that event! What if I forget? A: In Trumba Connect, you can select No End Date. For daily or weekly repeating events, the end date can be up to 2 years in the future. For monthly events, the end date can be up to 20 years in the future. For annual events, the end can be up to 200 years in the future. So you can schedule repeating events pretty far out. When you set a No End Date, Trumba automatically keeps adding more events into the future on a sliding scale for you.

One thing that is pretty essential for me is the ability to color-code appointments. I use this to distinguish between (for example) events that are confirmed or tentative. Given that you can't get much text onto the calendar, the ability to see categories of events at a glance is very useful. Answer: You can use colors in Trumba to distinguish between different categories of events but the way you do that may be slightly different from the way you're used to. Each calendar you create has its own color. For example, your personal calendar might be blue and your Work calendar green. Events on a calendar take on the calendar's color. You can mix events from one calendar into another (for example, you can mix your Work events into your personal calendar). When you do that you'll be able to distinguish at a glance the blue personal events from the green work events. You can color code your calendars in the Trumba editing environment by selecting the blue drop down arrow the right of the calendar and then select a color from the color swatches. When you publish the calendar you can also have the same or different colors. The setting is located by going to Publish Settings>Publish Settings tab>Edit Calendar Colors. Here you can change the calendar color, fade, text color, link color and hover color for each calendar. MORE INFORMATION: https://www.trumba.com/help/publish/pub_colors.aspx For more information about mixing events from one calendar into another, see Hide and Show calendars

Trumba does allow site visitors to subscribe to a weekly email that the Publisher account holder can set up for each published calendar. We do support the following import formats: Comma Separated Values (CSV), Tab Delimited (TXT), Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX), iCalendar (ICS), vCalendar (VCS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML). You can also manually add events. Trumba also supports adding events to your personal calendar as well as interacting with social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Here is a good help topic on Event Actions.

To move between months, you can use the navigation buttons above your calendar. But, if the month you want to navigate to is several months away, this can be a time-consuming approach. NOTE: If you are using the Classic Month view and there are no future events, you are not able to move into the future. Use the Month List Control Spud to navigate more quickly to another month. This displays a series of abbreviated month names for all months that have events, starting from the current month. Selecting a month in the spud displays the month's events in the main calendar spud.