The mini-calendar preview, located at the top right of the mini-calendar Options dialog, lets you see the effect of most of the selected options, without the need to generate a diary.

•The preview only shows the formatting specified by the mini-calendar options; it does not reproduce the existing font formatting in the GridTemplate’s textbox.

•Some options, such as Special Tabs for one-line mini-calendars, are visible only in the generated output.

•The weekdays of the preview are always displayed in English and, if the [ddd] shortened token option is used to display weekdays, then the preview will show the first 3 letters of the full English weekday names (unless the GridOptions' length of [ddd] option is set to any value different from 0).

The various elements of the mini-calendar preview are:

•Date for DayValue = 1: Use this to specify the date corresponding to the first DayValue of a GridTemplate containing the mini-calendar token you wish to preview.

•Left Token: Use this setting to specify the DayValue of the mini-calendar token, and whether it is relative (of the form +XX or -XX) or absolute (of the form XXX).

•Spread (template pages): If you are using the option all dates of spread, and if the GridTemplate to which this mini-calendar property belongs is part of a 4 or 6 page layout, you also need to specify on which of these pages the previewed mini-calendar is.

•Current/Other Minicals: If you are editing the options for the current mini-calendars, the preview will also display a preview for the other mini-calendars, and vice-versa. This is useful to ensure that options are coherent, or that they differ exactly the way you want.

You can get the same preview, with the appropriate token and date, for each page of the diary from the script Preview. Note that whenever an element of a mini-calendar is to be specially formatted, a red triangle appears at the top left of its cell. This allows you to validate that formatting is occurring where you expect it to be, even if the formatting is too complex to be previewed.

Clicking on one of these cells will cause the formatting to appear in the status bar (as long as you keep the mouse button down).

See also: Current or Other mini-calendars and Formatting Sequence of Dates in mini-calendars.

Topic 153100, last updated on 06-Oct-2026