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      type="topic" id="calendar-alarms-and-reminders">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#calendar" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.4" date="2011-08-02" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
     <name its:translate="no">Novell, Inc</name>
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    <desc>Setting up reminder notifications for appointments.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Reminders for appointments</title>

<section id="general-settings">
  <title>General Settings</title>

  <p>Under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui>
  <gui>Calendar and Tasks</gui><gui>Reminders</gui></guiseq> you can select
  those calendars for which you want to receive reminder notifications. If you
  do not select a calendar, you will not receive reminders for any events in
  this calendar. You can also define whether to show a reminder for every
  appointment and for every birthday and anniversary.</p>

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    <if:when test="platform:gnome-shell">
      <p>For general information on displaying reminders, please see
      <link xref="help:gnome-help/shell-notifications"
      href="https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-notifications">
      the GNOME Desktop Help</link>.</p>
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<section id="manual-reminders">
  <title>Manual Reminders</title>

  <p>Apart from the general settings you can also set up reminders in the
  appointment editor for certain appointments only:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Click <guiseq><gui>Options</gui><gui>Reminders</gui></guiseq> or press
      the Reminder button in the toolbar.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>From the dropdown menu, choose either one of the available default
      options when to show a notification reminder, or choose
      <gui>Customize</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In case of <gui>Customize</gui>, the reminder can be a popup, a sound
      played, or a program ran. You can also define whether the reminder should
      be repeated.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</section>

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