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> # Day View

> Click the Day tab to view a day’s calendar. The Day view displays events and tasks scheduled for the day. By default, the current day is displayed.

> In the Day view, the day is apportioned into time periods as specified in the Options tab. Each time period occupies a separate row in the calendar grid where events for that time period are displayed.

> The Tasks pane displays tasks that are overdue and tasks scheduled for the day. A Task is considered overdue when it has not been marked complete on or before the current date. You can use the Options tab to specify whether completed tasks should be displayed in the Tasks Pane.

> To view the calendar for another date, use the “Jump to:” or the Miniature Calendar to select a date and view that day’s calendar. Click Today, to view the events and tasks scheduled for the current day.

> Note | You can use the “Jump to:” tool to jump to a day upto a maximum of five years ahead of the current day.

> Within the Day view you can:

> - Choose the Current Calendar
> - View Event Details from the Calendar Grid
> - Search for Events in the Calendar
> - Create New Events
> - Edit Events
> - Quick Add Events to a calendar
> - Create New Tasks
> - Manage tasks in the Tasks Pane
> - Accept Invitations to an event
> - Check Availability of individuals participating in an event
> - Search for Calendar
> - Print the day’s calendar
> - Import /Export Calendars
> - View the Calendar Access URL
> - View Your Default Time Zone

> ### Choose the Current Calendar

> Choose a calendar from the Current Calendar drop-down list to view any of the calendar groups or calendars you have created or subscribed to.

> In the Current Calendars drop-down list calendars are classified into:

> - My Calendars: Contains multiple calendars owned by you.
> - Calendar Groups: Contains calendars that you have classified under a group.
> - Subscribed Calendars: Contains calendars that you have subscribed to. The permissions that you have to a subscribed calendar determines whether you can view, add, delete, or edit an event in it.

> You can also select Manage Calendars from the Current Calendar drop-down list to view your calendars and manage them. For more information on Managing Calendars, see Manage Calendars.

> The selected calendar is displayed in the view you are in. For example, if the calendar you were viewing is in the Day view, the selected calendar will also be rendered in the Day view.

> Once the calendar is selected for viewing, the calendar summary details such as the calendar’s name, a short description of the event, calendar address, owner of the calendar, and permission details, such as View and Edit are displayed in the Manage Calendars page. For instructions on viewing a calendar, see View Calendar Details. For instructions on editing a calendar, see Edit Calendars.

> You can edit an existing calendar or edit the calendar groups. For instructions on editing calendars, see Edit Calendars. For instructions on editing calendar groups, see Edit Calendar Groups.

> ### View Event Details from the Calendar Grid

> Depending on the category of events selected for viewing from the Type drop-down list in the Day, Week, and Month view, the calendar grid displays all the events and tasks scheduled for the selected day, week, or month during the working hours.

> If an event is created outside the default time line the grid expands to show the event.

> Note | The daily time scale for calendar (start and end of day) is specified in the Calendar window of the Options tab.

> In the calendar, events belonging to the calendars you own appear in yellow and events in other’s calendar appear in white.

> Click the “+” icon to create a new event for that day and time in the New Events window. For instructions on creating new events, see Create New Events.

> Use the left and right arrows that appear on the date heading of your calendar to change the date being displayed by one day, week, or month, depending on the calendar view you are in. For example, if you are in the day view clicking the right arrow will display the events and tasks for the next day and clicking the left arrow will display the events and tasks for the previous day.

> In the Day view, conflicting events are stacked horizontally to show the overlap in time, while in the week and the month view events are grouped together vertically with a blue vertical line beside them.

> Note | Conflicting All Day Events are stacked vertically in the Day view.

> The calendar grid displays the following event details:

> - Event Title: The name of the event. The Event Title appears as “Untitled” if an event title was not entered when creating the event and “Busy” if only the date and time were specified when creating the event.
> - Time: The time the event is scheduled to take place.
> - Recurring: The presence of the recurring icon, , indicates that the event is a recurring event.
> - Notifications: The presence of the notify icon, , indicates that alarms with different lead times are set to notify you of the upcoming events.
> - Permissions: The permission icon, , indicates whether the event is a public or a private event. If an event is public, anyone with Read permission to your calendar can see it. If an event is private, you and co-owners of your calendar can see the event, but not the others.

> However, private events can be viewed by others if the event is created with the Availability option selected.

> - Location of the event. “None” is displayed if the location is not mentioned when creating an event.
> - Attendee Status: The number of invitees that have accepted, are undecided, have declined, or have not responded to an invitation, are displayed beside different colored boxes on the grid. Use the mouse over tool tip to get information on the attendee status each colored box represents.

> Note | If you have been granted only the Availability, or Availability and Invite Permissions to the calendar, an error message requesting you to select another calendar is displayed.

> ### Delete Events

> To delete an event from the calendar grid

> Click the delete icon, , that appears to the left of the event title to delete the event.

> Note | You can see this icon only if you have delete permission.

> ### View Your Default Time Zone

> The Calendar Time Zone displays your default time zone.

> For example, GMT + 05:30. The number you see on the right indicates the offset in hours from GMT.

> The calendar time zone can be set in the New Calendar window or in the Edit Calendar window. Individual calendars are displayed in their time zone if the option “When displaying a single calendar use its time zone” is selected in the Options - Calendar window of the Options tab.

> Multiple calendars are displayed in your default time zone.

> ### View the Calendar Access URL

> The calendar URL that appears at the bottom of the Day, Week, Month, and Year calendar provides the URL to your selected calendar.

> Note | The Calendar Access URL will be visible only if you have Read permission to the calendar. You will not be able to see this link if you have been granted only the Availability permission for calendars you have subscribed to. The Calendar Access URL will not appear in temporary calendars and calendar groups.

> The URL contains a snap shot of your default calendar.

> You can also cut and paste the link into an email. When the person receiving the link clicks it, a read-only copy of your calendar is displayed. They will not be able to create new events on your calendar or view the Task pane. They will, however, be able to view your entire calendar and print it.

> If you want others to be able to read and search for details of your public events using the URL, you must grant Read permission to all users. For instructions on how to set permissions, see Permissions.

> If you have given all users only the Availability permission, the person who receives the calendar access URL link will see only a free/busy rendition of the calendar with no event details.

> ### Quick Add Events

> You can use the quick Add Event option to create an event on a particular date and time of the year, from the Day, Week, Month, or Year view and from the Events page.

> To Add an Event using the quick Add option

> 1. Enter the Event Title.
> 2. Select a Date from the drop-down list.
> 3. Select the time of the event in hours and minutes from the drop-down list.
> 4. Click Add Event. The event is added to the selected calendar and the duration of the event is dependent on the calendar time split option set in the Options-Calendar tab.

> Note | When you create an event using the quick add option, the new event is added to the selected calendar only if you have the read and write permissions it.

> #### Miniature Calendar

> Use the miniature calendar to select a date from the calendar. In the miniature calendar, use the previous (<) or next (>) arrow keys to change the month of the calendar. Click a specific date on the calendar, to view events for that day.

> #### Jump to

> Use the “jump to:” tool to view the calendar for another date.

> Select the month, day, and year from the drop-down list and click Go, to view the day’s calendar.

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