To begin using the calendar, select Calendar from the shortcut bar. 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 .

Evolution Contact Manager Window

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. The Evolution 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 Evolution 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. To create a new calendar event, select New and then Appointment from the MENU, or click the New button on the left end of the toolbar. The New Appointment 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 Summary and Owner of the event (which is probably you), and cut right to the more intersting ones. Your event must have a starting and ending date — by default, it's today — but you can choose whether to give it starting and ending times or to mark it as an All day event. For the purposes of the calendar, an All day event 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. You can have as many as four different Alarms, any time prior to the event you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type: Display means a window will pop up on your screen to remind you of your event. Click Audio to have your deliver a sound alarm. Select Program 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 Browse button. If you select Mail, then Evolution will send an email reminder to the address you enter into the text field. Classification is a little more complicated, and only applies to calendars on a network. Public is the default category, and a public even tcan be viewd by anyone on the calendar sharing network. Private means (SOMETHING), and Confidential means that (SOMETHING ELSE). The Recurrence 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 Exceptions, pick individual days when the event will not recur. 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 calendar view to select it, and then choosing Event Properties from the Settings menu. 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: In addition, you can use Evolution to mark a meeting request on another person's calendar. To do it, first select New Appointment from the MENU, or press KEYSYM to bring up the new event window. Then describe the event as you would any other. Before you click OK, (INSERT DESCRIPTION HERE...). Evolution 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. To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the event in the calendar view to select it, and then choose Event Properties from the Settings menu. In the Event Properties dialog window, click the "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this feature may not at all exist!) 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. 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 ), and are included with calendar data during synchronization with a hand-held device. To record a new task, click the Add button below the list. Evolution will pop up a small window with five items in it: Summary:The description you enter here will appear in the To Do list itself. Due Date: Decide when this item is due. You can either type in a date and time, or select one from the Calendar and time drop-down menus. Priority:Select a level of importance from 1 to 9. Item Comments:If you wish, you can keep a more detailed description of the item here. Once you've added a task to your to-do list, its summary appears in the Summary section of the calendar window. To edit an item, double-click on it, or select it and click Edit. You can delete items by selecting them and clicking on the Delete button. Until I have Evolution running properly, I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work. But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and probably a screenshot.