Calendar
The Calendar gives your team a single view of scheduled, pending, manually logged, published, failed, and canceled posts across your connected platforms (X today; Instagram and Facebook coming soon). It's also where the approval workflow plays out when enabled.
Who can use it
Everyone in the org can view the calendar. Approval actions are gated by the minimum role configured in Settings (Editor, Admin, or Owner).
Views
Month - grid of the full month
Week - seven-day slice
Day - single-day detail
Navigate with the previous/next controls at the top. When a day holds more events than fit in the month or week grid, a +N more link appears on that day - click it to jump straight to the Day view for that date.
Status colors
Approval pending
Orange
Waiting on approval before it can go out
Queued / approved
Blue
Approved and scheduled; will publish automatically
Publishing
Purple
Currently being sent to the platform
Posted
Green
Published successfully via TheContentForge
Confirmed manual
Gray
Manually logged after posting elsewhere
Failed / canceled
Red
Did not publish; see error message on the event drawer
Platform badges (X blue, IG pink, FB indigo) show which channel each post belongs to.
Threads and media indicators
Threads collapse to one entry. An X thread scheduled as multiple tweets shows as a single pill on the calendar. A thread chip on the pill and a "{n}-post thread" line in the drawer show you it expands.
Media thumbnails. Any event with attached images or video gets a paperclip icon on the pill. The event drawer shows a small thumbnail strip with a preview of every attached asset.
Thread replies inside the drawer. Opening a thread event reveals the full list of replies in order, each with its own media strip, so you can verify the whole chain before it sends.
Filters
By status - all, needs approval, scheduled, posted, manual, failed
By platform - all, X, Facebook, Instagram
A badge in the calendar header shows the current count of posts waiting for approval.
Event drawer actions
Click any event to open its detail drawer:
Approve / Reject - for posts awaiting approval (visible only to users at or above the configured min role)
Reschedule - pick a new date and time for future queued, approved, or approval-pending posts
Cancel - pull a scheduled or publishing post before it completes
Delete - hard-delete terminal states such as manually confirmed, canceled, and failed; deleting a manual entry also cleans up the corresponding analytics row
Each event shows its creation time, approval time if applicable, external post ID once published, and any error message from a failed attempt.
Engagement metrics
Once a post has published and its analytics have synced, the event drawer shows an Engagement panel with the metrics available for that post - impressions, reach, views, likes, reactions, comments, replies, shares, reposts, saves, bookmarks, clicks, profile visits, and total engagements. Only metrics that actually have a value are shown.
The numbers come from the matching analytics row for the post, linked to the calendar event when it published or was manually logged. If the post is out but analytics haven't landed yet, the panel says none are recorded yet; if there's no matching analytics row at all, no panel shows. See Data Ingestion and My Account > Social Connections for how analytics get in.
Where posts come from
Posts land on the Calendar from:
Content Forge Publish Panels
Video Forge Publish Panels
Manual logs for posts you already published elsewhere
Analytics sync, which can later fetch or match manually posted items
Scheduled posts publish automatically at the specified time via a background job. Manual logs are useful when you posted outside TheContentForge but still want the item visible on the Calendar and available for later analytics matching.
Related
Publishing - How posts reach the Calendar
My Account > Social Connections - Connect the accounts posts publish through
Settings Reference - Configure the approval workflow min role
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