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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+ type="topic" id="calendar-alarms-and-reminders">
+
+ <info>
+ <desc>Setting up reminder notifications for appointments.</desc>
+
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#calendar" />
+
+ <revision pkgversion="3.1.5" version="0.4" date="2011-08-02" status="draft"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Andre Klapper</name>
+ <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Novell, Inc</name> <!-- Content partially from http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/2.32/config-prefs-cal.html.en#CACHCGCI -->
+ </credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+
+ </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>
+
+</section>
+
+<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, <!-- TODO: Test how this is in GNOME3? Displayed in Notification area, permanent? --> 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>
+
+</page>