Calendar Component Shortcomings (how to fix, custom options, workarounds?)

I have some serious gripes with the calendar component, and am hoping the community has some workarounds or advice. Maybe with HTML? or some kind of table component magic?

  • If you set the “hide mode selector” toggle to month mode and hide the selector, users can click on the little date number in the top right corner of the box and it will bring them into day mode. However, as the mode selector is hidden, there is no way to return to month mode.

  • There also doesn’t appear to be a way to select a month or year besides scrolling left/right with the arrows. How is this the case? If i source the calendar from a query that only shows events in November, it will still just show this month empty instead of switching to the month that features the events. At least one of these would allow for some usability, but neither?

  • The Create new event action also seems to be unusable. I cant have it open a form? it just instant creates a row with a timestamp and thats it? Doesn’t ask for fields for the coloumns in the table? no other options?