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<!--
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<chapter id="usage-calendar">
  <title>Managing your Schedule</title>

     <para>
      This chapter will show you how to use the Ximian Evolution
      Calendar to manage your schedule alone or in conjunction with
      peers.
     </para>

    <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view"> 
    <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
    <para>
       The toolbar offers you four different views of your calendar:
       <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Day
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Work Week
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Week
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Month
      </para>
    </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      Press the calendar-shaped buttons on the right side of the toolbar to
      switch between views. 

      You can also select a range of
      days&mdash; three days, ten days, or a fortnight if you want
      &mdash; in the small calendar at the upper right.  To do this, simply click and drag on the days that you wish to view in your calendar.

    </para>
    <para>
       The <guibutton>Prev</guibutton> and <guibutton>Next</guibutton>
       buttons will move you forward and back in your calendar pages.
       If you're looking at only one day, you'll see tomorrow's page,
       or yesterday's.  If you're looking at your calendar by week or
       month, you'll move around by just that much.
       To come back to today's listing, click the
        <guibutton>Today</guibutton> button in the toolbar.
    </para>
    <para>
       To visit a specific date's calendar entries, click
       <guibutton>Go To</guibutton> and select the date in the dialog
       box that appears.
    </para>

  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
    <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
    <para>
      Of course, you'll want to use the calendar to do more than find
      out what day it is. This section will tell you how to schedule
      appointments, set alarms, and determine appointment recurrence.
    </para>

    <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
      <title>Creating appointments</title>
      <para>
    To create a new appointment, select
        <menuchoice>
      <guimenu>File</guimenu>
      <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> 
      <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem>
    </menuchoice>
    or click the <guibutton>New Appointment</guibutton> button on the left end
    of the toolbar. The <interface>New Appointment</interface>
    dialog will pop up with the menu bar, tool bar, and
    window full of choices for you.
      </para>
      <tip id="new-appointment-shortcut">
        <title>Shortcut</title>
        <para>
           If you don't need to enter more information than the date
           and time of the appointment, you just click in any blank
           space in the calendar and start typing. You can enter other
           information later with the appointment editor.
        </para>
      </tip>

      <para>
        Your appointment must have a starting and ending date &mdash; by
        default, 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>. An <guilabel>All day event</guilabel>
        appears at the top of a day's appointment list, in the grey header under the date, rather than inside
        it.  That makes it easy to have appointments that overlap and fit
        inside each other.  For example, a conference might be an all
        day appointment, and the meetings at the conference would be timed
        appointments.  Of course, appointments with specific starting and ending
        times can also overlap.  When they do they're displayed as
        multiple columns in the day view of the calendar.
      </para>
      <para>
    <application>Evolution</application> supports the use of timezones.  If you share calendar files with friends or co-workers, it is quite possible you will need to configure your timezone.  To configure your timezone:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click 
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Calendar Settings</guimenuitem>
          </menuchoice>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guibutton>Globe</guibutton> button in the <guilabel>Time</guilabel> section, located in the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Each red dot represents a major city.  Click a dot and click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to select your time zone.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
      <para>
    You can also configure timezone information specific to Start and End time in each appointment.  To do that, simply create a new appointment and click on a globe to customize the timezone that the time exists in.
      </para>
      <note>
       <title>Multiple Simultanious Appointments</title>
         <para>
           If you create calendar appointments that overlap,
           <application>Evolution</application> will display them side
           by side in your calendar.  However,
           <application>Evolution</application> cannot help you do
           multiple things at once.
         </para>
      </note>
      <para>
         You can have as many
         <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>, any time prior to the appointment
         you've scheduled.  You can have one alarm of each of the following types:
          <variablelist>
           <varlistentry>
        <term><guilabel>Display:</guilabel></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            A window will pop up on your screen to remind you of
            your appointment.
              </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry> 
        <term><guilabel>Audio:</guilabel></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Choose this to have your computer deliver a sound
            alarm.
              </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><guilabel>Program:</guilabel></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Select this if you would like to run a program as a
            reminder.  You can enter its name in the text field,
            or find it with the <guibutton>Browse</guibutton>
            button.
              </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
        
      </para>
      <para>
         <guilabel>Classification</guilabel> 
         only applies to calendars on a
         network. <guilabel>Public</guilabel> is the default category,
         and a public appointment can be viewed by anyone on the calendar
         sharing network.  <guilabel>Private</guilabel> denotes one
         level of security, and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> an even 
         higher level.
      </para>
      <para>
    <application>Evolution</application> can handle not only time that you're busy, but free time. This can be useful if you're on a network sharing calendar files.  You can easily compare schedules with other people, allowing easy setup of a RSVP.
      </para>
      <para>
    To set your appointment to be free or busy, simply click the box in the <guilabel>Show Time As</guilabel> section in the <guilabel>Appointment Editor</guilabel>.
      </para>
      <para>
        <application>Evolution</application> lets you categorize your
    appointments, which can help if you lead a busy life.  The bottom
    section of the <guilabel>Appointment</guilabel> tab is where your
    categorization is done.
      </para>
      
      <tip>
      <title>Adding a New Appointment Category</title>
    <para>
     You can add a new category to your category list by clicking on
         <guibutton>Edit Master Category List</guibutton> and single-clicking
     on <guilabel> Click here to add a category</guilabel>.
    </para>
      </tip>

      <para>
     The purpose of categories is to let you view all appointments which have
     similar activities.  To do this, change <guilabel>Any field contains</guilabel>
     to <guilabel>Has category</guilabel> and enter your category at right.
      </para>

      <para>
    Clicking on the <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button opens up the category
    list.  To associate a category to an appointment, simply click the check box. 
      </para>
      <para>
    Once you've selected your categories, click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to
    assign these categories to the appointment.  The categories you selected are now
    listed in the text box to the right of the <guibutton>Categories...</guibutton>
    button.
      </para>

      <para>
        The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe
        repetition in appointments ranging from once every day up to once
        every 100 years.  You can then choose a time and date when the
        appointment will stop recurring, and, under
        <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick individual days when the
        appointment will <emphasis>not</emphasis> recur. Make your
        selections from left to right, and you'll form a sentence:
        "Every two weeks on Monday and Friday until January 3, 2003"
        or "Every month on the first Friday for 12 occurrences."
      </para>

      <para>
    Once you're done with all those settings, click on the disk
    icon in the toolbar to save and close the appointment editor window. 
    If you want, you can alter an appointment
    summary in the calendar view by clicking on it and typing. You
    can change other settings by right-clicking on the appointment then
    choosing <guimenuitem>Edit this Appointment</guimenuitem>.
      </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="usage-calendar-rsvp">
      <title>Sending an RSVP with the Calendar</title>
      <para>
    <application>Evolution</application> can be used to schedule
    group meetings and help you manage responses to meeting
    requests.
      </para>
      <para>
    When you create a meeting or group appointment, you can
    specify the attendees in several categories, such as "chair"
    or "required."  When you save the appointment listing, each
    attendee will be sent an email with the appointment
    information and gives them the option to respond.
      </para>

      <note id="meeting-announce">
       <title>Simple Announcements</title>
        <para>
           If you don't need to collect attendance information when
           you're scheduling an event, and would rather just announce
           it, select
           <menuchoice><guimenu>Actions</guimenu><guimenuitem>Forward
           as iCalendar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.  That will open a
           new email message with the event notification attached as
           an announcement.  Recipients will be able to add the event
           to their calendars with one click, but won't automatically
           send you email about whether they'll attend.
        </para>
     </note>

      <para>
    To schedule a meeting:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Select
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Actions</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Schedule
        Meeting</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>.  The
        <guilabel>Scheduling</guilabel> and
        <guilabel>Meeting</guilabel> tabs open.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          If you have multiple Evolution identities, choose the
          one you'll use by selecting an item in the
          <guilabel>Sent By</guilabel> field.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the space labelled <guilabel>Click here to add an
          attendee</guilabel> to enter the names and email
          addresses of people you will invite, or click the
          <guibutton>Invite Others</guibutton> to select them from
          your addressbook.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Save the Appointment.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
    An email is now sent out to all the recipients, inviting them to your event.
      </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="replying-to-rsvp">
      <title>Replying to a Meeting Request</title>
      <para>
    Meeting requests are sent as iCal attachments.  To view or
    respond to one, click on the attachment icon and view it
    inline in the mail window.  All the details are shown about
    the event including time and dates.  Then you can choose how
    to reply to the RSVP.  Your choices are:
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Accept
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Tentatively Accept
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Decline
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> and an email will be sent to
    the organizer with your answer.  The event will also be added
    to your calendar if you accept.
      </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="recieving-rsvp-response">
      <title>Getting Responses to Meeting Requests</title>
      <para>
    Once you get a reply to your meeting invitation, you'll need
    to view it inline in the email.  Click the attachment and
    select <guibutton>View Inline</guibutton>.  At the bottom, you
    can click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to update your attendee
    list.
      </para>
    </sect2>

<!-- ############UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES ###################

    <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
      <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
      <para>
    You can use <application>Evolution</application> to mark a
    meeting request on another person's calendar.  To do it, click
    <guibutton>New</guibutton> in the calendar toolbar, or select
    <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
    <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
    <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> to bring
    up the <interface>new appointment</interface> window.  Then
    describe the appointment as you would any other. When you are
    ready to send the invitation <guibutton>OK</guibutton>
    <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 appointment on your calendar and on
    theirs as tentative, rather than a confirmed, appointment.
      </para>
      <para>
    To mark a tentative appointment as confirmed, click once on the
    appointment in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to select
    it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Appointment
    Properties</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
    menu.  In the <interface>Appointment Properties</interface> dialog
    window, click the "tentative" button to De-select the
    appointment.
      </para>
      <para>
        When your meeting attendees get the email inviting them to the
        meeting, they'll be able to enter the information into their
        calendars and let you know if they'll be able to attend; if
        they use <application>Ximian Evolution</application> or
        another iCal compliant mail client, they can do this with just
        one click. When you get a response from them, it will include
        an iCal attachment. Opening and accepting this attachment will
        change the meeting data in your calendar to indicate that they
        have responded to your invitation, and whether they will be in
        attendance.
     </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>
 ########## END UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURESET ############ -->
    <sect2 id="usage-calendar-freebusy">
      <title>The Free/Busy View</title>
      <para>
    <application>Evolution</application> has a Free/Busy window so
    that you can view people's schedules together to help you
    schedule appointments.
      </para>
      <para>
    To access the free/busy view:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Open or create an appointment in the
          <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel> window.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Actions</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Schedule Meeting</guimenuitem>
          </menuchoice>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Open the <guilabel>Scheduling</guilabel> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
      <figure>
        <title>Threaded Mail View</title>
    <screenshot>
      <screeninfo>Threaded Mail View</screeninfo>
      <mediaobject><imageobject>
          <imagedata  format="png" fileref="figures/freebusy"
      srccredit="Kevin Breit">
        </imageobject></mediaobject>
    </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <para>
    <inlinemediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="figures/full-1" format="png">
      </imageobject>
    </inlinemediaobject>
    <guilabel>Invitee List</guilabel>
      </para>
      <para>
    The <guilabel>Invitee List</guilabel> lists off the people who
    have been invited to the respective appointment.  It also
    shows their RSVP status.
      </para>
      <para>
    <inlinemediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="figures/full-2" format="png">
      </imageobject>
    </inlinemediaobject>
    <guilabel>Schedule Grid</guilabel>
      </para>
      <para>
    The <guilabel>Schedule Grid</guilabel> shows the invitee's
    published Free/Busy information.  This is where you compare
    people's schedules to find free time to schedule the
    appointment.
      </para>
      <para>
    <inlinemediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="figures/full-3" format="png">
      </imageobject>
    </inlinemediaobject>
    <guilabel>Meeting Scheduler</guilabel>
      </para>
      <para>
    The <guilabel>Meeting Scheduler</guilabel> allows you to
    schedule the meeting in the <guilabel>Free/Busy</guilabel> window.
      </para>
      <sect3 id="usage-calendar-freebusy-scheduling">
    <title>Scheduling an Appointment</title>
    <para>
      To schedule an appointment, you'll first need people's
      free/busy information.  Once you have recieved people's
      schedule information, integrate it with your calendar. 
      <!-- Describe how to integrate -->
      In the <guilabel>Scheduling</guilabel> tab, you'll see the
      pending appointment time in white with bold black borders.
      You should also see the invitee's free/busy schedules. 
    </para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="usage-calendar-todo">
   <title>The Task Pad</title>
    <para>
       The Task Pad, located in the lower right corner of the
       calendar, lets you keep a list of tasks separate from your
       calendar appointments.  You can use the list
       in a larger window by choosing the <guibutton>Tasks</guibutton>
       button in the shortcut bar or in the folder tree.
    </para>
    <para>
       To record a new task, click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
       button in the toolbar.  <application>Evolution</application>
       will pop up a small window with five items in it:
     
        <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
      <term> <guilabel>Summary:</guilabel></term>
      <listitem>
            <para>
              The description you enter here will appear in the To Do
              list itself.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    
    <varlistentry>
      <term> <guilabel>Due Date:</guilabel></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          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>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><guilabel>Start Date:</guilabel></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          The date you intend to start working.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term> <guilabel>Description:</guilabel></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
              If you wish, you can keep a more detailed description of
              the item here. For example, you can note that a task is
              in progress, and display how close it is to completion.
            </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><guilabel>Classification:</guilabel></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Sets who will see it if your calendar is shared.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </para>
    <para>
      There are more options in the <guilabel>Details</guilabel> tab such as priority and progress settings.
    </para>
    <para>
       Once you've added a task to your to-do list, its summary
       appears in the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel> section of task
       list.  To view or edit a detailed description of an item,
       double-click on it, or right click on it and select <guibutton>Open</guibutton>.  You can delete items by selecting
       them and clicking on the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button.
    </para>
    <para>
      The list of tasks is sorted in a similar way to the list of
      email messages in <application>Ximian Evolution
      Mail</application>.  Click once on the message headers to change
      the direction and type of sorting, or right-click to add or
      remove columns from the display.
    </para>
    <sect2 id="task-folders">
      <title>Folders for Your Tasks</title>
      <para>
    Like any other component in
    <application>Evolution</application>, you can create a folder
    to help organize your tasks.  To do this:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Open the <guilabel>Folders Bar</guilabel>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click <guibutton>Tasks</guibutton>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Right click on <guibutton>Tasks</guibutton>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Create New Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Enter the folder name.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="usage-calendar-multiple">
    <title>Multiple Calendars</title>
    <para>
       <application>Evolution</application> permits you to have and
       maintain multiple calendars.  This is useful if you maintain
       schedules for other people, if you are responsible for resource
       or room allocation, or if you have multiple personalities.
    </para>
   
    <example>
      <title>Keeping Multiple Calendars</title>
      <para>
        Lucy, the office manager for a small company, has one calendar
        for her own schedule. She maintains one for the conference
        room, to schedule meetings.  Next to that, she maintains a
        calendar that reflects when consultants are going to be on
        site, and another that keeps track of when the Cubs are
        playing.
      </para>
    </example>
    <para>
      To create a new calendar, select 
      <menuchoice>
    <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
    <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem>
      </menuchoice>.
       You'll need to tell the <guilabel>New Folder</guilabel> dialog that the new folder should be of the calendar type.  You can place the calendar in any calendar folder and access it
       from the folder view.
    </para>
    <para>
       Each calendar folder can hold only one calendar.
    </para>
  </sect1>
</chapter>