Scouts QLD Calendar

Scouts QLD Calendar


Scouts QLD Calendar


The new Scouts QLD calendar is a combined Branch and Training calendar presented in a digital calendar format.  The following guide is designed to help you navigate and use the calendar.


The default view of the calendar displays all events for the current month.


You can adjust the month the calendar displays using using the up and down arrows to move forward and backward through the months:


Clicking on the month allows you to select a specific date to display:


The options on the right-hand side of the calendar change the time period being displayed:


Customising the events shown on the calendar

The Scouts QLD calendar uses Refiners to allow you to refine or filter the items being displayed for you on the calendar.


The refiners can be found on the left-hand side of the calendar and there are 4 layers of filtering.


In each layer the default is to select all refiner options, this is what is displayed when you load the calendar.



Applicable to: is the event specific to a section, available to everyone (statewide) or training related – the applicable to allows you to filter out the events that are not applicable to your role.


Applicable to also sets the colours of the items in the calendar, where possible the colours match the National Branding guidelines – eg section and state colours.


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I am a: this refiner allows you to select items applicable to your role in Scouting 

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Region: this refiner allows for the inclusion of Region specific events as well as an All Regions option for those items that are not specific to a singular region.

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Type: the final refiner looks at the type of activity or event being included – is a Key Date, training an so on.

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Using the Refiners: use of the refiner is done by ticking or untick the box next to the relevant refiner – by default all refiner are ticked or enabled, so if you untick a refined the items that are tagged with that refiner will be removed for your calendar view.


For example if you only wanted to see training course options, the steps would take are as follows:

Untick Select All to turn all applicable to refiners off, then tick the three training refiners on.

The calendar will now only show the items that match these refiners:

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Adding an event to your Outlook Calendar:


Please note this is designed to add an event to an Outlook Calendar via the Outlook app or Outlook for Web.


Step 1: Obtain the event file from Branch Calendar:

Select the event you want to add to your personal calendar, then click on Add to Outlook

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This will download an .ics file to your device.


Add the event to your calendar using Outlook for web (Outlook in browser)


Open your Calendar in your browser then select Add calendar

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Select Upload from file then use browse to select the file downloaded:


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You will then need to select the calendar you want to add the event too (by default will be a single calendar in the list:

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Select the calendar then select import


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The event will import and show a message:

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The event will now display your on your personal calendar

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