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title: "Calendar defaults: opening day and default views"
slug: "calendar-defaults"
updated: 2026-09-23T22:10:03Z
published: 2026-09-23T22:10:03Z
canonical: "docs.quantivly.com/calendar-defaults"
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# Calendar defaults: opening day and default views

## Choosing which day the Calendar opens on

**Settings › General settings** now includes a **Calendar opening day** preference: *choose the day your Calendar opens on.*

| Option | Opens on |
| --- | --- |
| **System default** | Whatever your deployment is configured to show |
| **Today** | Today |
| **Yesterday** | Yesterday |

**Yesterday** is the useful one for morning review: a full, closed day of data rather than one still in progress. With **Today** or **Yesterday** set, the Calendar returns to that day each time you open it.

The same page also holds your **default landing page** — the screen you see when you sign in, chosen from Home, Overview, Calendar or Q-Lens, with Q-Lens offered only where it's available to you — and your **default color strategy** for the Calendar. All three are personal: they affect only your account.

Unless you change them, the Calendar opens on **System default**. The default color strategy and landing page are set by your organization; typically the Calendar colors by **Appts / Exams** and you land on the **Calendar** after signing in.

Changes save automatically, confirmed by a *Preferences saved.* message.

## Which default wins

Several things can decide what the Calendar shows when you open it. They apply in this order, and the first one that applies wins:

1. **A link you followed.** A shared Calendar URL carrying an explicit date or view always wins — that is what makes a shared link reproduce what the sender saw.
2. **Your own default view.** A view you saved and flagged as your default beats the deployment-wide default, for you only.
3. **Your Calendar opening day.** If you set **Today** or **Yesterday**, the deployment's default view is suppressed and the Calendar opens on that day.
4. **The deployment default view.** The view your organization has flagged as its default.
5. **Nothing set** — the Calendar opens on its normal default day.

The consequence worth knowing: **setting an opening day of Today or Yesterday overrides your organization's default view, but not a personal default view of your own.** If you have saved your own default view and also set an opening day, the view wins. Clear your personal default view if you want the opening-day preference to take effect.