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How to Create a Calendar in Calendar Hub

Calendar Hub holds your appointment calendars, both the private one only you work from and shared ones your team uses. Creating one takes a name and a single switch, so it is worth making a separate calendar for anything you want to book time against.

Create a calendar

  1. Click Calendar Hub in the left menu.
  2. Click Add New Calendar in the row of buttons across the top. The Add A New Calendar box opens.
  3. Set the two fields:
    • Personal/Private Calendar. On by default. Leave it on for a calendar you work from yourself. Turn it off to create one your team shares.
    • Calendar Name. Required. Use a name a colleague would recognize in a list, something like "Donor Meetings" rather than "Calendar 2". It can't be the name of a calendar already in your calendar list.
  4. Click Add Calendar. Argenta creates the calendar and opens it for you.

That is everything the create box asks for. The rest of the setup happens on Calendar Info.

The Calendar Hub button row with Add New Calendar and Sync Google Calendar

Add New Calendar sits in the row of buttons across the top.

The Add A New Calendar box with the Personal or Private Calendar switch and the Calendar Name field

Two fields, then Add Calendar.

Fill in the details on Calendar Info

On a personal calendar, a Workspace Menu appears just under the buttons with Calendar View, Calendar Info, Default Schedule, Availability, Event Types, and Notification Design.

  1. Click Calendar Info.
  2. Fill in the details:
    • Calendar Name. Rename the calendar here any time, to any name not already in your calendar list. Two of Argenta’s built-in calendars are the exception: the Organization Calendar and the Team Time Off Calendar are shared by every organization, so their settings cannot be changed. Open either one and a note appears where the save button would be.
    • Location or Online Meeting Link. Choose Online Appointment or In-Person, then type the meeting link or the physical address in the box underneath. This becomes the default for appointments booked on this calendar.
    • Time Zone. The zone this calendar's times are in. A new calendar starts on Eastern Standard Time. Every time on the calendar is read in this zone: its appointments, its Default Schedule and Availability, your copies of the appointment emails, and Google sync. The person who booked sees their own zone instead: on the booking page, in their emails and reminders, and on the page they use to reschedule or cancel. Changing it does not move anything already on the calendar. A 9:00 AM appointment stays at 9:00 AM; it is simply read as 9:00 AM in the new zone. So set the zone before you build the schedule.
    • Calendar Description. A short note about what the calendar is for.
  3. Click Save All Changes. Calendar Name is required, so Argenta will stop you if you clear it.

The calendar Workspace Menu with Calendar View, Calendar Info, Default Schedule, Availability, Event Types and Notification Design

The Workspace Menu sits just under the buttons.

Calendar Info with Calendar Name, Location or Online Meeting Link, and the Time Zone list open

Pick Online Appointment or In-Person and fill in the box underneath, then choose the calendar's Time Zone.

The public booking page opens in the visitor's own time zone, read from their device, with a Time Zone list under the date picker to switch it; every date and time on the page follows that choice. Once a visitor picks a time, the Confirm your time box adds your time when the calendar's zone reads it differently. The appointment is kept in the calendar's zone: the visitor's confirmation email shows their own time, and your copy shows the calendar's.

The public booking page date picker with the Time Zone list outlined and open under it, offering Eastern, Central, Mountain, Arizona, Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii Time

The Time Zone list under the date picker sets the zone every time on the page is shown in.

The Calendar Information header with the Save All Changes button

Save All Changes sits at the top right of the panel.

Move between calendars

The dropdown at the top right of every Calendar Hub page lists the calendars you can open. Pick one and Argenta takes you straight to it.

The calendar dropdown open at the top right, listing the calendars you can open

The dropdown at the top right switches calendars.

What else is in the Workspace Menu

  • Calendar View. The calendar itself. New Appointment drops an appointment onto it, and Export To PDF saves what you are looking at.
  • Default Schedule and Availability. The hours you are open for appointments, the days or times you are not, and extra hours you open on a single date. See How to Set Up Calendar Availability for Appointments.
  • Event Types. The kinds of appointment people can book on this calendar, each with its own length, public link, scheduling rules, reminders and follow-up email, and one-time links that book a single appointment. See How to Set Up Calendar Availability for Appointments.
  • Notification Design. The default appointment notification email that goes out for this calendar.

The New Appointment and Export To PDF buttons on Calendar View

New Appointment and Export To PDF live on Calendar View.

Show volunteer shifts on a calendar

Above the calendar, next to Export To PDF, switch on Display Volunteer Tasks To This Calendar. Your volunteer shifts then appear on that calendar for everyone who can see it, with the shift and the volunteer's name, whether or not they have the Volunteer Manager module. A shift nobody has taken still shows, marked Unassigned.

The Organization Calendar in Agenda view with the Display Volunteer Tasks To This Calendar switch turned on and boxed. The list shows volunteer shifts with their times, each named with the shift and the volunteer covering it, or Unassigned where nobody has signed up

With the switch on, every shift shows on the calendar with the name of the volunteer covering it.

The shifts are read straight from your volunteer tasks each time the calendar opens, so a change to a task shows up the next time and nothing is copied. On the calendar they are read-only: you cannot drag, resize or delete them there. Someone with Volunteer Manager can click one to open its volunteer task. Switch the display off and they are gone. The choice is saved for your organization on that one calendar, and a view-only user cannot change it.

See your bookings, cancellations and no-shows

Click Bookings Report at the top of Calendar Hub. It opens the Calendar Hub Bookings report, which is also in the Report Center. Pick an Appointment Date Range and click Run Report.

Each row is one organizer and one event type, with four counts:

  • Booked: every booking in the range, including ones that were later canceled.
  • Canceled by Invitee and Canceled by Staff: who called it off. Cancellations are counted from October 21, 2026, when Argenta began keeping them.
  • No-Shows: appointments marked as a No-Show.

The Calendar Hub Bookings report with Booked, Canceled by Invitee, Canceled by Staff and No-Shows for each organizer and event type, and a Total row

One row per organizer and event type, with a total across the bottom.

Bookings are counted by their appointment date, not the day they were made. An admin sees every organizer on the team; everyone else sees only their own bookings. If your login can export lists, Export To CSV and Export To PDF take the figures with you.

Delete a calendar

Open the calendar, click Delete Calendar, and confirm. Every appointment on that calendar is removed with it, so look through it first. Argenta's built-in calendars cannot be deleted, which is why the button does not appear on all of them.

The Calendar Hub button row on a calendar you created, showing the Delete Calendar button

Delete Calendar only shows on a calendar you created.

To keep a calendar in step with Google, see How To Use The Google API with Argenta Calendars.

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