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About Calendar

The Sun Java™ System Communications Express is a Web-based communication and collaboration client that lets you create and manage calendars from a browser. It enables you to use your calendar to record events and tasks, share your calendar with others, view other’s calendar, invite contacts from your address book to events, invite other calendars to your events and set reminders and notifications for an event.

When you first select the Calendar tab, your default calendar is displayed in the default view. You can later select a calendar from the Current Calendar drop-down list to view and create events and tasks in it. The Current Calendar drop-down list has calendar groups, my calendars, a temporary calendar containing the concatenated multiple calendar name, and the subscribed calendars, if any.

For the selected calendar you can see events and tasks in the:

You can also access the:

Use the Calendar toolbar options mentioned in Table 1 to manage events, tasks and calendars. The table consists of three columns; the first lists the toolbar option, the second the icon representing the option, and the third the purpose of this option.

Table 1  Calendar Toolbar Options

Tool bar option

Icons

Purpose

New Event

New Event icon

Use this option to create a new event. For more information, see Create New Events.

New Task

New Task icon

Use this option to create a new task. For more information, see Create New Tasks.

Check Availability

Check Availability icon

Use this option to check availability of individuals before scheduling an event with them. For more information, see Check Availability.

Search for Calendar

Search for Calendar icon

Use this option to search for calendars. For more information, see Search for Calendar.

Printable

Printable icon

Use this option to print calendars, events, or tasks. For more information, see Print.

Import /Export

Import/Export icon

Use this option to import or export calendar events and tasks between different calendars. For more information, see Import /Export.


Note

You can personalize your calendar and specify the global default calendar preferences using the Options tab.



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