UsingCalendarTroubleshooting
Why is the calendar empty?
Why the calendar shows no meetings — coverage, the date window, filters or a saved bill view — and what to do about each.
Applies toPartial coverage
You open the calendar and see "No events in this window", or a week with nothing in it. An empty calendar can mean nothing is scheduled — or that CapitolMath doesn't carry that legislature's agendas, or that a filter is hiding them. The page tells you which; here are the causes, most likely first.
Only session dates are recorded there#
Committee agendas are carried for some legislatures, not all. For the rest, the calendar holds only the dates sessions end, so most weeks are empty. The page says so above the list: "Only session dates are recorded for … — committee agendas are not ingested there yet."
Fix: nothing on your side — this is a gap in coverage, not a quiet legislature. Coverage shows which jurisdictions have meetings.
Nothing is scheduled in this window#
Schedule shows the Next 30 days unless you change it, and legislatures post agendas only days or weeks ahead. Between sessions there may be nothing at all: the line above the list then says when the next session begins, with "Committee meetings are scheduled once it is sitting."
Fix: under When, choose Next 90 days or All dates, or Past 30 days to see what was held. In Week or Month, use › to move ahead, or Today to come back to now — a shared link opens on the week it was sent from.
No jurisdiction is selected#
With nothing chosen under Jurisdiction, the page asks you to "Select one or more jurisdictions to browse their calendar."
Fix: choose one or more jurisdictions under Jurisdiction.
A search or filter is narrowing it#
The message reads "No events in this window match that search" when the search box has text. The Calendar, Kind and Agenda filters narrow the list too — Has bills hides oversight hearings, which usually carry no bills.
Fix: clear the search box, or select Clear all filters. That also sets When back to Next 30 days and takes off any saved view; your jurisdictions stay.
A saved bill view is applied#
Saved views chosen under Legislation Views show only meetings whose agendas include their bills, in the jurisdictions you've kept. A note above the list says what they found:
| The note says | What it means |
|---|---|
| "…matches no bills that appear on a scheduled agenda in…" | The view may match plenty of bills; none of them is on an agenda. |
| "…covers a state, whose calendar is not loaded yet." | The view's jurisdiction has no meetings in CapitolMath — a gap in coverage, not an empty schedule. |
| "…in this link isn't available to you." | The view was deleted, or isn't shared with you. |
A bill that's on an agenda outside the window you chose still counts in the note, so the note can name bills while the list is empty — widen When to find their meetings.
Fix: clear the views under Legislation, or choose Clear all filters.
The calendar hasn't been fetched lately#
Calendars are fetched on demand, not continuously. "Events as of…" above the list gives the time of the last fetch, for the least recently fetched of the jurisdictions you've chosen. A meeting posted after that isn't on the calendar yet.
A session's end date is missing#
Where a session's recorded adjournment date is only an end-of-period filler (31 December or 30 June), the calendar leaves it off rather than show a date it doesn't trust — "N sessions have no recorded adjournment date and are not shown" — and the line above the list says "no recorded adjournment date".
A meeting you were sent is gone#
"That event is no longer on the calendar" means the link points at a meeting CapitolMath no longer has. To look for the meeting, search the calendar by its committee or one of its bills.