myPortal - Customizing Events & Calendars

Summary

This article will review some important features of Events & Calendars in myPortal. 

 

How-To

Task: A user will be better able to understand how to customize their Events & Calendars in myPortal. 

 

Instructions

There are several places to locate Events & Calendars in myPortal. The first location is in the left-hand navigation block at the top. 

Left hand navigation Events & Calendars view

You can also scroll down under Widgets to see your Calendars Widget, and lastly if you scroll down on your myPortal Dashboard to the Upcoming Events area at the bottom of your Dashboard. 

Changing Calendar Widget

If you have multiple invites to different calendars, you can change the view of your Calendar Widget by clicking on the filter icon Filter Icon on the right-hand side of the Widget and customizing your Calendar Widget feed there. Click the check boxes next to any calendar feed to turn off your view. These settings will save automatically. You can also opt to Show only with "Going" status which will just show events you've RSVPed to in the portal as Going. 

 

 

When you click Manage Calendars you will have the ability to make further changes. You can use the Search bar to Search for additional calendars. If you click the ellipsis next to any of the calendars under My Calendars you can change the Calendar's color by clicking on your preferred color. You can also Unsubscribe to a calendar by clicking Unsubscribe. Once you've clicked Unsubscribe you'll get an alert notifying you that you have unsubscribed from that calendar. 

Lastly, under Available Calendars, you can click the plus button (+) to subscribe to any other relevant calendars which will be added to your widget. 

Click Done when you are finished customizing. 

Edit Calendars in myPortal

 

RSVPing as Going to Events

If you would like to RSVP to an event, you simply scroll over the event and click on View Full Event

Viewing Full Event in myPortal '

Then simply change your response to Going. You can always switch this back if you can't make it. 

Image of Going RSVP to events in myPortal

 

Changing Events and Calendars

In order to change Events and Calendars click on Events and Calendars from the left-hand navigation. You can customize the date you are looking at. You'll see in the dates area the current date is highlighted, but you can move the date around and use the Today button or the date to bring back to the current date. You can also use the arrows to look at past or upcoming months. The My Calendars area allows you to select or deselect calendars you want to view. The filters area allows you to filter the view further so you can either see All Events or events that you plan on going to with Show Only with Going status. 

Events and Calendars view in myPortal

Click the checkboxes next to any calendar feed to turn off your view. These settings will save automatically. 
 

You can use the Search bar to Search for additional calendars. If you click the ellipsis next to any of the calendars under My Calendars you can change the Calendar's color by clicking on your preferred color. You can also Unsubscribe to a calendar by clicking Unsubscribe. Once you've clicked Unsubscribe you'll get an alert notifying you that you have unsubscribed from that calendar. 

Lastly, under My Calendars, you can click the plus button (+) and then scroll down to Available Calendars to subscribe to any other relevant calendars which will be added to your widget. 

Click Done when you are finished customizing. 

 

Outcome

You will be able to customize your Events & Calendars in myPortal. 

 

Further Readings 

My Portal - Widgets

myPortal: Log-in

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