There are two different types of people who will use CoSchedule Marketing Calendar – a user and a stakeholder.
Users are people who you need to invite to Marketing Calendar. These are people, usually on your marketing team, that need to execute their work by accessing their projects, tasks and social messages directly in Marketing Calendar.
Stakeholders are people that don’t need to use Marketing Calendar to execute their daily work but could benefit from being in-the-know about what the marketing team is working on.
These are usually managers, CEOs, or members of other departments within your organization like the sales team.
Rather than inviting these individuals to be a “user” in Marketing Calendar, you can have them access the tool through something called a read-only view. Read-only views allow stakeholders to have marketing visibility without paying for an extra user.
Please Note: Read-Only views are only available in Marketing Calendar Pro. If you are not in a Pro plan, you can use the filter feature to create a specialized view that is not shareable outside of your calendar.
In this chapter, you’re going to learn how you can use your Marketing Calendar to create and share read-only links. Read Only View is available when you upgrade to Marketing Calendar Pro.
Read-only links let you share unmodifiable versions of your calendar views with whomever you want.
To share a read-only version of your entire calendar or a filtered calendar view:
1. Click into the specific calendar you want to share by selecting it from the views list. Then click the share button in the top left-hand corner of the calendar.
2. Click the link button or Copy next to the link to copy the URL. To download a PDF, click Download PDF .
3. Send the link or downloaded PDF attachment to anyone who needs to see the calendar.
Sometimes stakeholders don’t need to know everything your team is doing.
If you need a specialized view for someone in the company, you can create and share a filtered view of the calendar that contains only relevant projects – like only social media messages or blog posts.
Here’s how to create a saved filter of your calendar that only contains certain things.
This is how to set up a saved view that contains only your blog posts.
To access this view, click All in the breadcrumb menu and then choose Blog Post from the drop-down.
To share this view with a stakeholder, click the share icon to copy the link or download the PDF.
Read Only View is available when you upgrade to Marketing Calendar Pro.
Read-only views are a great way to allow clients to quickly see everything your team is working on for them and when each of their projects will be delivered.
To create a saved filter for each client, follow the steps above, but choose:
Read Only View is available when you upgrade to Marketing Calendar Pro.