Calendar Views
Driive offers several calendar views so you can see your schedule at the level of detail that makes sense right now. Switch between them anytime using the Day, Week, Month, and Dispatch toggle at the top of the calendar.
Month view
Month view gives you the big picture. Each day shows a summary of scheduled appointments, making it easy to spot busy days, light days, and gaps in your schedule.
Best for:
- Planning capacity weeks in advance
- Identifying slow periods where you could take on more jobs
- Getting a quick sense of how loaded your upcoming month looks
Click any day to drill down into the Day view for full details.
Week view
Week view shows a seven-day grid with hourly time slots, giving you a detailed look at what's coming up without overwhelming you with a full month of data.
Best for:
- Day-to-day scheduling and dispatching
- Reviewing the upcoming week during your Monday morning planning
- Spotting back-to-back appointments that might need buffer time
Appointments appear as colored blocks on the time grid. The block height corresponds to the appointment duration, so a two-hour job is visually twice the size of a one-hour job.
Day view
Day view zooms in to a single day with the most granular time grid. Every appointment and external event is shown in full detail, including titles, assigned users, and time ranges.
When you select multiple users in the calendar panel, Day view places each person in their own column, side-by-side — so you can compare workloads and see at a glance who's free and who's stacked.
Best for:
- Managing today's schedule in real time
- Dispatching — see which technician has an opening for an incoming job
- Reviewing a single day's workload before dispatching your team
- Checking for conflicts or gaps on a specific date
Learn more about the side-by-side layout in Viewing Team Schedules.
Dispatch view
Dispatch is a purpose-built fourth view for assigning arrival-window jobs to technicians. Instead of stacking everyone into one grid, it pivots a single day into technician rows with an Unassigned lane on top — so you can drag a job that only has a promised window onto the tech who should take it.
Best for:
- Assigning window bookings that came in without a technician
- Balancing a day's work across a team by drag-and-drop
- Marking a technician on their way once they head out
Pick the team you're dispatching from the dropdown next to the view toggle. Full walkthrough in Dispatching.
Switching between views
To change your calendar view:
- Look for the Day / Week / Month / Dispatch toggle at the top of the calendar.
- Click the view you want.
- The calendar updates immediately. Your selected date range is preserved as closely as possible — for example, switching from Week to Day view keeps you on the same day you were viewing.
Your view preference is remembered, so the next time you open the calendar, it opens in the last view you used.
Next steps
- Navigating the Calendar — Learn how to move between dates and filter users.
- Viewing Team Schedules — Dive deeper into side-by-side scheduling for multi-team management.
- Dispatching — Assign arrival-window jobs to technicians on the Dispatch board.