I am trying to get the appointments to display and i am able to get the appointment control up but then inside of the appointment there is no text at all it is just blank. Although it will display a tool tip that has what the subject of it should be. Another note is that i am using a custom advanced insert template is that y it is doing this? Please help!

Hello Ian,

 
Please refer to our Customized Templates demo where similar functionality is achieved by using templates the following code:

Hope this will be helpful.

Greetings,
Plamen Zdravkov
the Telerik team