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Create New Calendars

To Create New Calendars

  1. Click New Calendar.
  2. The New Calendar window is displayed.
  3. Enter the following calendar details:
  4. General Information

    Share This Calendar

    Share Calendar with Specific Users

    Owners

    Time Zones

  5. Click Save to create the calendar in your Calendars list.

General Information

  1. Enter a unique name for the new calendar in Calendar Name.
  2. A calendar name cannot contain spaces, but can include the following characters:

    Alphabetic (a-z, A-Z) and numeric (0-9) characters.

    Special characters: period (.), underscore (_), hyphen or dash (-), apostrophe (`), percent sign (%), slash (/), or exclamation point (!).

  3. (Optional) Enter a Display Name for this calendar.
  4. This display name can remind you of the purpose of this calendar. For example, if the short name for the calendar is Laurel, the display name could be something like Micky’s Laurel Calendar.

  5. (Optional) Enter a text description of this calendar in Description.
  6. (Optional) Select the Availability checkbox if you want this calendar to be used when determining your availability for an event.
  7. If you check this box, ensure Availability is checked in the Permissions List under Share This Calendar with Specific Users, so that others can see your availability.

Share This Calendar

Click Share This Calendar link to go to Share This Calendar section.

Use this section to specify how you want to allow others to view or work with this calendar.

You can select the following sharing options:

Share Calendar with Specific Users

There may be certain permissions that you do not want to share with all calendar users. For example, you might not want to give permission to all calendar users to delete and modify events in your calendar, but you might want to give that permission to one or more individuals.

If you want to give individual users additional permissions:

  1. Enter the user ID.
  2. Click Add.
  3. Set the Permissions you want to give this person.

You can also select individuals from the Corporate directory and add them to the Permission List.

To search for individuals

  1. Click Add from Address Book.
  2. The Search Address Book window is displayed.
  3. Enter the name or the keywords you want to search in the text field.
  4. Click Search. The list of names matching the search criteria is displayed.
  5. Select the names to be added to the Permission List and click Add.

To remove individuals from the Permissions List, select the user ID and click the Remove.

Owners

Click the Owners link to add users to make them co-owners of this calendar.

Co-owners have the same rights to your calendar that you have They can change the property settings, such as permissions and time zone settings of your calendar.


Tip

You do not have to add the co-owners as individual users in the Permissions List.


To add contacts to the Owners List

  1. Select the contact name from the Address Book or if known, enter the user ID of the contact.
  2. Click Add Addresses. The user ID is displayed in the Owners List.

To remove a name from the Owners List, select the user ID and click the Remove.

Time Zones

Click the Time Zones link to specify the time zone for this calendar.

Permissions

You can grant the following permissions when sharing your calendar with others:

Availability

Allows others to see the free/busy slots in your calendar. However, others will not be able to see the details of your events. Granting this permission allows people to search for your calendar in the Calendars Search window and to subscribe to your calendar.

Events on calendars with only availability permission (and without read permission) cannot be viewed.

Events on calendars with availability permission can be viewed using the check availability option.

Invite

Allows people to invite you to an event. However, calendars with only Invite permissions are not displayed in the Calendars Search window, and in the Day, Week, Month, and Year views.

Read

Allows people to see the details of your public events on your calendar.

Modify

Allows people to modify events and tasks in your calendar. Also, allows people to create new events and tasks directly onto your calendar.

Delete

Allows people to delete events and tasks in your calendar.


Note

Once you have set the permissions for all users in Share This Calendar, you can give individual users additional permissions.



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