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-<chapter id="usage-calendar">
- <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
- <para>
- To begin using the calendar, select
- <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
- bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts with a display
- of one day on a yellow ruled background. There's a month calendar
- in the upper right and a To-do list in the lower right. The
- calendar's daily view is shown in <xref
- linkend="usage-calendar-fig">.
-
- <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
- <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
- <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
-
- </para>
- <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
- <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
- <para>
- You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
- month, or by the year; press the calendar-shaped buttons on the
- right side of the toolbar to switch between views.
- </para>
-
-
-<!-- ############### FIXME FIXME FIXME ############
-Feature not yet implemented, and may not be implemented due to
-lack of time, resources, and interest.
- <para>
- In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
- Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
- different calendar format, choose
- <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
- </para>
-################ END FIXME AREA ################## -->
-
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
- <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
- <para>
- The <application>Evolution</application> calendar allows you to
- schedule events for yourself or a group of people. It can
- handle events that repeat, event lengths from ten minutes to
- multiple days, and events that have a date but no specific
- time. You can set overlapping events, although
- <application>Evolution</application> will warn you about trying
- to do two things at once. You can also set event reminders so
- that you don't forget about everything you've just put into
- your calendar. Basically, it can handle almost any schedule you
- throw at it.
- </para>
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
- <title>Creating events</title>
- <para>
- To create a new calendar event, select
- <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then <guimenuitem>
- Appointment</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or
- click the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button on the left end of
- the toolbar. The <interface>New Appointment</interface> dialog
- will pop up with the usual menu bar, tool bar, and window full
- of choices for you. I'm going to skip the the more
- self-explanatory items, like the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel>
- and <guilabel>Owner</guilabel> of the event (which is probably
- you), and cut right to the more intersting ones.
- </para>
- <para>
- Your event must have a starting and ending date &mdash; by
- default, it's today &mdash; but you can choose whether to give
- it starting and ending times or to mark it as an <guilabel>All
- day event</guilabel>. For the purposes of the calendar, an
- <guilabel>All day event</guilabel> begins at ten in the
- morning, runs until eleven at night, and is displayed at the
- top of a day's event list rather than inside it. This allows
- you to include events of shorter duration within it. A
- conference might be an all day event, and the various lectures
- might be timed events that happen during the all day event.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can have as many as four different
- <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>, any time prior to the event
- you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Display</guilabel> means a window will pop up on
- your screen to remind you of your event.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click <guilabel>Audio</guilabel> to have your deliver a
- sound alarm.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select <guilabel>Program</guilabel> if you would like
- some additional application to run as a reminder. You
- can enter its name in the text field, or find it with
- the <guibutton>Browse</guibutton> button.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you select <guilabel>Mail</guilabel>, then
- <application>Evolution</application> will send an email
- reminder to the address you enter into the text field.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Classification</guilabel> is a little more
- complicated, and only applies to calendars on a
- network. <guilabel>Public</guilabel> is the default category,
- and a public even tcan be viewd by anyone on the calendar
- sharing network. <guilabel>Private</guilabel> means
- (SOMETHING), and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> means that
- (SOMETHING ELSE).
- </para>
- <para>
- The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe
- repitition in events ranging from once every day up to once
- every 100 years. You can then choose a time when repitition
- will stop, and, under <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick
- individual days when the event will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- recur.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once you're done with all those settings, click on the disk
- icon in the toolbar. That will save the event and close the
- event editor window. If you want, you can alter an event
- summary in the calendar view by clicking on it and typing. You
- can change other settings by clicking once on the event in the
- <interface>calendar view</interface> to select it, and then
- choosing <guimenuitem>Event Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
- <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
- <para>
- If you have your calendar set up to work with other
- calendars over a network, you can see when others are
- available to meet with you. To browse other people's
- calendars over your local network, do this:
- </para>
- <para>
- In addition, you can use
- <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
- request on another person's calendar. To do it, first
- select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
- to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
- Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
- you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
- HERE...). <application>Evolution</application> will
- automatically send email to each person on the request
- list, notifying of the time and date of the meeting you
- have requested with them. In addition, it will mark the
- event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
- a confirmed, event.
- </para>
- <para>
- To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
- event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
- select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
- Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
- Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
- "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
- feature may not at all exist!)
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-privs">
- <title>Scheduling privileges</title>
- <para>
- There are several levels of scheduling privileges. You
- can set whether people can see your calendar, whether they
- can request meetings or appointments, and whether they can
- create appointments. This section may have to be deleted,
- because I don't know if we are going to support privileges
- at all.
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-todo">
- <title>The To-Do List</title>
- <para>
- The to-do list, located in the lower right corner of the
- calendar, lets you keep a list of tasks seperate from your
- calendar events. Tasks are colored by priority and due-date
- (see <xref linkend="config-prefs">), and are included with
- calendar data during synchronization with a hand-held device.
- </para>
- <para>
- To record a new task, click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
- button below the list. <application>Evolution</application>
- will pop up a small window with five items in it:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Summary:</guilabel>The description you enter
- here will appear in the To Do list itself.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Due Date:</guilabel> Decide when this item is
- due. You can either type in a date and time, or select one from
- the <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> and time drop-down menus.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Priority:</guilabel>Select a level of importance from 1 to 9.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Item Comments:</guilabel>If you wish, you can
- keep a more detailed description of the item here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Once you've added a task to your to-do list, its summary
- appears in the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel> section of the
- calendar window. To edit an item, double-click on it, or
- select it and click <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. You can
- delete items by selecting them and clicking on the
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button.
- </para>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
- <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
- <para>
- Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
- I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
- </para>
- <para>
- But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
- probably a screenshot.
- </para>
- </sect1>
-</chapter>
-
-