Setting up the showcase on a tablet

The showcase is the month calendar at full screen – made for the tablet that lives in the kitchen or the hallway. In five steps it turns into a family calendar that everyone can see and on which the children can tick off their tasks.

Step by step

1. Open app.planbiene.de in the tablet's browser and sign in. For a device the children walk past, a dedicated account makes sense – the showcase never shows more than that person may see.
2. Add the app to the home screen: in the browser menu “Add to home screen” (on Safari: Share › Add to Home Screen). From there Planbiene starts full screen, without an address bar.
3. Open the 🖼️ Showcase in the menu and turn the tablet to landscape.
4. Use Filters at the top right to choose what should be visible – for example sick days off, waste collection on. The selection is remembered on the device.
5. Optional: narrow it to one child with the buttons at the top if the tablet lives in a child's room. “All” shows the whole family again.

Using it every day

• Changing the month: ‹ and › next to the month name, or swipe left or right with your finger.
• Back to today: tap the month name.
• Viewing a day: tap a day cell. Days without content are not clickable – nothing happens there, which is exactly right.
• Closing the day dialog: via the ×, a tap next to it or Esc on a connected keyboard.

Ticking tasks off

Week plan tasks and planned family to-dos can be ticked off directly in the showcase: in the day cell a tap on the row is enough, in the day dialog a tap on the task. Ticking works for today and all coming days – past days stay display only, so nobody rewrites the past by accident.

More on this in the Handbook: showcase and the Handbook: children's week plan.