You can further customise the information displayed on your calendar by setting your calendar preferences.
To open your calendar preferences: in the top right of your calendar, click the cogwheel icon.
Refer to the tables below for details on all calendar preferences.
The Calendar View preferences relate to the time and days shown on your calendar and appointment visibility.
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Time Zone |
The default time zone used to display your calendar, practice hours and appointments throughout Halaxy for your account. |
Start Time / End Time |
The time range displayed on your calendar. Note: It is still possible for an appointment to be made outside of this range by manually changing the appointment time or if you have configured your available hours to be outside this range. If this occurs, you cannot see the appointment in your calendar unless your change the displayed start and finish times |
Appointment Visibility |
Show All: Show all appointments in the calendar, including cancelled and non-attended appointments, which are displayed with dimmed colours and their time labels with a strikethrough. Hide cancelled/non-attended: Cancelled and non-attended appointments do not appear on your calendar. |
Days to show |
All: Show all days on your calendar, including weekends. Weekdays only: Show only weekdays on your calendar. |
Start week on |
Select whether the calendar week begins on a Sunday or Monday. |
The Appointment Details preferences relate to how appointment and patient information are displayed on appointments in the calendar.
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Status colour |
Show: Change the appointment time label colour depending on the appointment status. Hide: The appointment time label colour remains in white, regardless of appointment status. Note: Appointments with coloured two-way reminders have time labels regardless of this setting. Time label colours only apply to appointments scheduled from today onwards. They do not apply to previous days in the calendar. |
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Clinical note status |
Show: Display the status of the appointment clinical notes with an icon. Hide: Do not display the status of the appointment clinical notes.
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Payment label |
Icon: Display the payment method or status with an icon. Text: Display the payment method or status with text. Note: Clicking the icon or text will take you to the appointment invoice.
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Invoice send status |
Show or hide the send status of the appointment invoice. Note: Payment label must also be enabled to use this setting.
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Appointment comment |
Show or hide appointment comments on the calendar. To view comments, click the appointment to open the Appointment Information panel. |
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Patient fee balance |
Show or hide the patient’s fee balance on the Appointment Information panel. If the patient's balance is 0.00, it will not be shown. |
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New patient icon |
Show or hide a star icon indicating if the patient booked for the appointment is attending your practice for the first time. Note: To protect patient privacy, whether or not the new patient icon is displayed may depend on the user's access level. For example, if a Personal Access practitioner cannot see that another practitioner at your practice has previously seen the patient, the icon will be displayed for the Personal Access user as though the patient is new. However, a Full Access user who can see appointments with the previous practitioner will not be shown the icon. |
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Patient age |
Show or hide the patient’s age on the calendar. |
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Patient arrival icon |
Show or hide a map pin icon next to the patient's name if their appointment status has been changed to Arrived |
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Patient name format |
Select the format and level of detail on how to display your patient’s name on the calendar.
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Your practice hours for each location are shaded on the calendar with the Open Hours colour you set in the location's settings. This section only lets you view your current colours but you can select and change colours for each location in the Locations page (Personal > Locations).
Related article: Set up and manage locations
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