Calendar Month Labels

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Calendar Month Labels

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IIRC correctly, previous versions of EPIM had labels inserted on the first day of each month, so it was easy to see which month calendar was on the screen. That seems to be gone now, as of v7.0.

Why? I thought this software was intended to make PIM stuff easier. Without the month identifier, I find myself actually having to refer to the built-in Windows calendar to see what month I'm looking at. Doesn't make any decent sense. Why were the month labels in Calendar dropped?
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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Please indicate which screen you mean exactly. A screenshot would help.
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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It's the main Monthly Calendar
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In the dropdown of calendar formats on the left side, only one "month" format is listed, so it's clear which format is being discussed.

I'm pretty sure there used to be a month shown on the 1st day of each new month, but someone thought they were unnecessary, obviously, and they mis-called it. I'm frequently scratching my head trying to figure out what month I'm looking at, especially when more than one is shown at the top left. Including it on the first day of each month makes it unambiguous.
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VictorParkerPIM wrote:It's the main Monthly Calendar
Monthly view has a name of the month on top, so it should not be a problem identifying "which month calendar was on the screen"
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Right. It "should not be a problem".

But it is, or those of us raising this issue would not be doing so. Do you really think we haven't even seen that "month name" at the top left? C'mon. I've seen EPIM month view with as many of THREE months in that box.

If you happen to be in the "sweet spot", where at the resolution you use, all you see on that view is a month at a time, you're golden. But that's not the real world. This thing appears to be resolution dependent. For example, my current monitor's native resolution is 3840 X 2160. I generally run it at 2560 X 1440, which is still higher than a lot of monitors people use.

It's not uncommon for me to see two month names at the top left of the month view screen, and I've seen three months shown up there in EPIM month view. There are Windows display settings that can affect resolution, and there are definitely monitor resolutions that appear to affect what's shown in the EPIM "month view". If only one month were ever shown there, it would be fine, but that's not the case.

There was a reason prior versions DID have a month label on the first day of each month. The rationale for doing that is as valid now as it ever was. Unfortunately, someone had a "better" idea. NOT.
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You really might want to provide a screenshot, as what you are saying doesn't seem to be very clear.
I'm quite lost for example on how you are having so many months show up in month view... as the number of days in the normal month view is unrelated to your screen DPI it shows a preset number of weeks and just makes each day square bigger until it fills the window size.
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True, it is impossible to understand without screenshots.
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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This will be fixed in the upcoming EssentialPIM 7.1 version. Thanks.
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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OK, for the disbelievers, and those wearing the rose-colored glasses, here's a show-and-tell which should make all this mysterious "without pictures, it didn't happen" stuff suddenly become clear:

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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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Racklefratz, like I said this is fixed in our internal builds and the fix will be available in EPIM 7.1.
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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admin wrote:Racklefratz, like I said this is fixed in our internal builds and the fix will be available in EPIM 7.1.
I saw that. This was for the benefit of those who seemed unable to understand my descriptions of this issue.
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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Ok :) ....
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Re: Calendar Month Labels

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I’ve been struggling with this issue too. And I appreciate that there is now a month label on the first day of each month, but I find even that hard to locate without a bit of “gymnastics”.

For me, the Month Label in the Title Bar would be the most helpful spot for quickly identifying which month I'm looking at.

Instead of listing the names of all months that are being fully or partially displayed, Couldn’t the Month Label in the Title Bar list only:
a) the Dominant month being displayed, or
b) the month of the day currently selected

How Month Label looks now in the Title Bar
How Month Label looks now in the Title Bar

This would be more helpful Month Label in Title Bar
This would be more helpful Month Label in Title Bar
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the Dominant month being displayed
This is how it works by default settings if the number of weeks displayed in the month view equals to 6.
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