In Socialbud, you can schedule and edit your posts from the Calendar. In this article we'll walk you through the main features of the Calendar and cover post types and how to edit posts from the Calendar.
Calendar
In Socialbud, the Calendar provides a quick overview of your planned posts. To access it, simply click on the Calendar element in the left navigation bar.
The Calendar view consists of two main sections: the toolbar at the top and the calendar at the bottom.
Toolbar Features
Use the toolbar at the top to navigate between specific dates, months, and weeks.
The Today button allows you to quickly jump to the current date.
Use the left and right arrow buttons to switch between months, weeks, or days.
Click on the month and year button at the top to view a specific date.
The view selector in the top right corner lets you switch between monthly, weekly, or daily views. The default view is weekly.
Calendar features
In the Calendar section, you’ll see all the posts scheduled for the dates visible, whether created by you or generated by our AI.
Views
There are three type of views in the calendar:
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Accessing posts in calendar views
Monthly view
The behavior when interacting with posts in the monthly view, depends on the number and type of posts for the selected day:
Single Post
Created Post: Clicking a day with one post opens the post details in the drawer at the right of the page.
Autogenerated Post: Clicking a day with an autogenerated post redirects to the Review posts page, accessible via the Review posts button.
Multiple Posts
If a day has multiple posts (scheduled or autogenerated), clicking it opens the weekly calendar view.
Weekly view
When you switch to the weekly view you can access all posts scheduled, or waiting for review for that week.
Created Post: Clicking a day with one post opens the post details in the drawer at the right of the page.
Autogenerated Post: Clicking a day with autogenerated post redirects to the Review posts page, accessible via the Review posts button.
Daily view
Switching to the daily view displays a list of posts grouped by date. In daily view, you can also create a post for that particular day by clicking the 'Add post' button on the top of the page.
Created Post: Click Open button, in the right of the page, it opens the post details in the drawer at the right.
Autogenerated Post: Clicking the Review post button redirects to the Review posts page, accessible via the Review posts button.
Post Types
There are two types of posts that can appear in your calendar and there are some important differences that worth mentioning:
Posts created and then scheduled by you. These posts have a visual on them, and a status indicator. Status indicator is visible only the weekly and in the daily view.
Automatically generated posts require your review before scheduling. Each post needs to be reviewed after clicking the "Review Post" button.
You might also see a special illustration on your calendar—these are placeholders for future Auto-generated posts. The date when the post will be generated is displayed just below the magic wand icon.
Post statuses
Once a post is created and appears in your calendar, it'll receive a status indicator in the bottom left corner of its card. The changes of the status can be dependent on many factors which we'll describe in detail in this section.
Scheduled
When a post was created the Scheduled status will be active by default. While having this status you can Edit, Download and Delete your post.
Published
When a post is successfully published, thePublished status will be active. This means that the post was published to all the social media platforms that you selected while scheduling this post. You may want to download this post by clicking the post in the calendar, and then clicking on the Download button in the top toolbar.
Failed
The Failed status will be active there if one of the following things is true: You haven't connected a social media account where you wanted to publish your post to, the Sm token has expired or there was an unexpected technical issue.
Follow these steps to resolve the Failed status:
Check if you connected your social media accounts.
Learn more:Connecting your social channels to Socialbud
How to connect your social media platform account to Socialbud
Try to reschedule your post by clicking on the post and then clicking on the Reschedule button on the top toolbar.
Try to download and then delete your post by clicking on the post, and then clicking on the Download and then the Delete button on the top toolbar.
Alerts
In some cases you might see a yellow or a red exclamation mark on your posts next to one or more social media platform icons. These exclamation marks indicate cases where a post was successfully scheduled or published, but not for all social media platforms. These exclamation marks are visible only in the daily and weekly views, but not in the monthly view.
Yellow exclamation mark
This indicates that one or more social media platforms are not connected.
Follow these steps to resolve the yellow exclamation mark error:
Click on the post that has the yellow exclamation mark
In the appearing sidebar, click on the social media icon that has the yellow exclamation mark. Bellow that you will se a message about which social media platform is not connected. Click in the yellow message the Connect button.
Click the Connect button to connect Socialbud to the given social media platform. As you can see, this section is now highlighted with yellow.
You can also refer to this article for further instructions on setting up the Platforms and Schedule page.
Connecting your social channels to Socialbud
How to connect your social media platform account to Socialbud
Red exclamation mark
A red exclamation mark can appear on published posts only. This is indicating that the post couldn’t be published to one or more social media platforms (for example, if the account was deactivated). In this situation, we recommend checking the platform directly to identify the issue and reaching out to their customer support, as these issues can't be resolved within Socialbud.
Edit Post
If you changed your mind regarding a post's content, don't worry, you can edit the post as long as it has a Scheduled or Failed status. You can't edit posts that are Published.
Follow these steps to access the Post Editor:
Click the calendar item in the left navigation bar
In weekly or daily view, click on any scheduled post to open the post details sidebar. Here you’ll see details related to the selected post.
Inside the sidebar, take a look at the top section. If there are multiple social media accounts that this post is scheduled to, you can now select which social media variant you'd like to edit by clicking on the desired social media icon.
Click the small pencil icon on the top. This opens up the post editor for the selected social media platform.
Post editor
In the Post editor, you can:
Edit the text on the visual
Change colors
Adjust the image and caption
If you scroll down, you can also reschedule your post by changing the publish date and time.
Once you’re done editing, don’t forget to click the Save changes button to apply your changes.
You can read more about the editing posts in the following article:
Editing posts
How to edit post
Grouped platform and individual platform posts
When you create a post, it may be scheduled for multiple social media platforms. The icons of the platforms where the post is scheduled are displayed on the post's card.
However, in some cases, you might want to reschedule a post for just one specific platform to a different time or date. In this situation, the post will appear as two separate posts in your calendar.
Read more about rescheduling posts in the section below or in the following article:
Editing posts
How to edit post
