We can enter when we are available, however, try to block out a couple weeks when you want to be on a real vacation and not do any sitting, or a week family members asked you to sit for them at your own home. It can’t be done!
@Jmcrae the calender defaults to “unavailable” ( white) - so if you don’t do anything to the calendar it shows you as unavailable ( white) automatically -
If you want to add dates you are available you can do that and those dates show highlighted in green .
Problem is there’s no key so most people don’t know what the colours mean.
I see now doing it that way can work. In our case we are actually available all year long, except for short windows where we make plans outside THS. I take it all back. Hahaha! I was just able to enter multiple windows of availability. So now the days we are not available actually look that way. It works, I just have to remember to manage it more frequently.
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I agree . The calendar for sitters is fairly useless. Far too inaccurate to be of any use. If for example I was available for the next 3 months with the exception of a particular week I can’t enter that information on the week I’m not available. So the calendar would say available for the next 3 months .
It would be lovely if THS could do something about this . And while the’re at it wouldn’t it be great if it was possible to specify where you would be prepared to sit during that period of availability as opposed to the general “wish list “in the sitters profile/ dashboard.
i think the problem is that when you can only enter periods of availability and that availability changes - say you make plans for 2 weeks in the middle of a 3 month block of availability - now it’s 3x more work to update it. You have to delete your old availability block and add 2 more on either side of your now unavailable time. And you have to do that every time your availability changes. It’s annoying, not to mention illogical since literally every other calendar in the world, you mark off when you’re NOT available vs when you ARE available. It’s like they set out to design the least intuitive, most time intensive way of updating a calendar.
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Very well said! My thoughts exactly!