The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire
To begin using the calendar, select
Calendar from the shortcut
bar. By default, the calendar starts in week view mode (IS
THIS TRUE? CHANGE TEXT TO FIT FEATURE). The calendar week view is
shown in :
Ways of Looking at your Calendar
You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
month, or by the year. To do so, click BUTTONS SOMEWHERE.
Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of
time here.
In addition, Evolution supports
Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
different calendar format, choose
GUIMENUITEM from the
GUIMENU.
Describe the ways that different calendars can work here,
and how the different calendars work together.
Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar
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.
Creating events
While looking at the calendar, select New
Appointment from the
MENU, or press
KEYSYM. The New
Appointment dialog will appear. (INSERT
DESCRIPTION OF INTERFACE HERE: Date, Time, Recurrence,
Reminders, and Tentative/Confirmed)
You can alter those settings later by clicking once on the
event in the calendar view to
select it, and then choosing Event
Properties from the
Settings menu.
Appointments for Groups
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 so, 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!)
Scheduling privileges
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.
Organizing your Appointments
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.