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Category stuff improved.
* C/usage-contact.sgml: Category stuff improved. * C/usage-calendar.sgml: Now covers how to add an event properly. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3571
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diff --git a/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml b/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml
index cf655d42fc..dbfbe7d8df 100644
--- a/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml
+++ b/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml
@@ -1,142 +1,218 @@
+<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
+
+<chapter id="usage-calendar">
+ <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
+ <para>
+ To begin using the calendar, select
+ <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
+ bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts with a display
+ of one day on a yellow ruled background. There's a month calendar
+ in the upper right and a To-do list in the lower right. The
+ calendar's daily view is shown in <xref
+ linkend="usage-calendar-fig">.
+
+ <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
+ <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
+ <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
+ <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
+ </graphic>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
+
+ </para>
+ <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
+ <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
+ month, or by the year. To do so, use the calendar-shaped
+ buttons on the right side of the toolbar.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of time
+ here.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
+ Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
+ different calendar format, choose
+ <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the ways that different calendars can work here, and
+ how the different calendars work together.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
+ <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ The <application>Evolution</application> 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
+ <application>Evolution</application> 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.
+ </para>
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
+ <title>Creating events</title>
+ <para>
+ To create a new calendar event, select
+ <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then <guimenuitem>
+ Appointment</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or
+ click the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button on the left end of
+ the toolbar. The <interface>New Appointment</interface> dialog
+ will pop up with the usual menu bar, tool bar, and window full
+ of choices for you. I'm going to skip the the more
+ self-explanatory items, like the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel>
+ and <guilabel>Owner</guilabel> of the event (which is probably
+ you), and cut right to the more intersting ones.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Your event must have a starting and ending date &mdash; by
+ default, it's 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>. For the purposes of the calendar, an
+ <guilabel>All day event</guilabel> begins at ten in the
+ morning, runs until eleven at night, and is displayed at the
+ top of a day's event list rather than inside it. This allows
+ you to include events of shorter duration within it. A
+ conference might be an all day event, and the various lectures
+ might be timed events that happen during the all day event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can have as many as four different
+ <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>, any time prior to the event
+ you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Display</guilabel> means a window will pop up on
+ your screen to remind you of your event.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guilabel>Audio</guilabel> to have your deliver a
+ sound alarm.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <guilabel>Program</guilabel> if you would like
+ some additional application to run as a reminder. You
+ can enter its name in the text field, or find it with
+ the <guibutton>Browse</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you select <guilabel>Mail</guilabel>, then
+ <application>Evolution</application> will send an email
+ reminder to the address you enter into the text field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Classification</guilabel> is a little more
+ complicated, and only applies to calendars on a
+ network. <guilabel>Public</guilabel> is the default category,
+ and a public even tcan be viewd by anyone on the calendar
+ sharing network. <guilabel>Private</guilabel> means
+ (SOMETHING), and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> means that
+ (SOMETHING ELSE).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe
+ repitition in events ranging from once every day up to once
+ every 100 years. You can then choose a time when repitition
+ will stop, and, under <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick
+ individual days when the event will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+ recur.
+ </para>
- <chapter id="usage-calendar">
- <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
<para>
- To begin using the calendar, select
- <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
- bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts in daily view mode
- The calendar's daily view is shown in
- <xref linkend="usage-calendar-fig">:
+ Once you're done with all those settings, click on the disk
+ icon in the toolbar. That will save the event and close the
+ event editor window. If you want, you can alter an event
+ summary in the calendar view by clicking on it and typing. You
+ can change other settings by clicking once on the event in the
+ <interface>calendar view</interface> to select it, and then
+ choosing <guimenuitem>Event Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
- <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
- <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
+ <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
+ <para>
+ 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:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition, you can use
+ <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
+ request on another person's calendar. To do so, first
+ select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
+ to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
+ Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
+ you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
+ HERE...). <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
+ event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
+ a confirmed, event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
+ event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
+ select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
+ Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
+ Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
+ "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
+ feature may not at all exist!)
+ </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>
- <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
- <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
- <para>
- You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
- month, or by the year. To do so, click the buttons at the top
- of <application>Evolution</application> with the numbers 1, 5,
- 7, 31 respectivly.
- </para>
- <para>
- Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of
- time here.
- </para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <para>
- In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
- Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
- different calendar format, choose
- <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Describe the ways that different calendars can work here,
- and how the different calendars work together.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
- <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
- <para>
- The <application>Evolution</application> 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
- <application>Evolution</application> 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.
- </para>
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
- <title>Creating events</title>
- <para>
- While looking at the calendar, select <guimenuitem>New
- Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press
- <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>New
- Appointment</interface> dialog will appear. (INSERT
- DESCRIPTION OF INTERFACE HERE: Date, Time, Recurrence,
- Reminders, and Tentative/Confirmed)
- </para>
- <para>
- You can alter those settings later by clicking once on the
- event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
- select it, and then choosing <guimenuitem>Event
- Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
- </para>
- </sect2>
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
+ <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
+ <para>
+ Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
+ I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
+ probably a screenshot.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+</chapter>
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
- <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
- <para>
- 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:
- </para>
- <para>
- In addition, you can use
- <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
- request on another person's calendar. To do so, first
- select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
- to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
- Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
- you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
- HERE...). <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
- event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
- a confirmed, event.
- </para>
- <para>
- To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
- event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
- select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
- Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
- Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
- "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
- feature may not at all exist!)
- </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>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
- <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
- <para>
- Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
- I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
- </para>
- <para>
- But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
- probably a screenshot.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
diff --git a/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml b/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml
index fdd988d55d..2291e28548 100644
--- a/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml
+++ b/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
<chapter id="usage-contact">
<title>The Evolution Contact Manager</title>
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
<title>Creating, Deleting, and Adding Cards</title>
<para>
- You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
- Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
- <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
- Editor</interface> window will appear. It has two tabs,
- <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information,
- and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific
- description of the person. In addition, it contains a full
- menu bar with all the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE?
- DESCRIBE MENUBAR AGAIN?)
+ You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
+ Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
+ <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
+ Editor</interface> window will appear. It has two tabs,
+ <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information, and
+ <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific description of
+ the person. In addition, it contains a full menu bar with all
+ the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE? DESCRIBE MENUBAR
+ AGAIN?)
</para>
<para>
The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab contains no less than seven
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@
</screenshot>
</figure>
-
-!--
+<!--
<variablelist>
<listitem>
<term>
@@ -150,6 +149,7 @@
</para>
-->
+
<para>
You can choose which fields an address card has, and create new
fields for cards. For example,
@@ -211,11 +211,10 @@
<title>Groups of contacts</title>
<para>
<application>Evolution</application> lets you put cards into
- folders, mark them as members of different groups, and search
- through them in a variety of ways. This section will
- describe how to organize and find contact information using
- <application>Evolution</application>. CHANGE THIS paragraph:
- it needs a great deal of work.
+ folders and mark them as members of different categories.
+ Although the contact manager does not support vFolders,
+ categories should provide as much flexibility as you need in
+ grouping your address cards.
</para>
<sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder">
@@ -226,13 +225,17 @@
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. You can create more
folders inside that one, or create other address book
folders as well. Each card must be in one and only one
- folder.
+ folder. If you've read <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow">
+ then you already know that you can create a new folder by
+ selecting <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then
+ <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu.
</para>
<para>
- To create a new folder, do this:
- </para>
- <para>
- To put a card into a folder, do this:
+ To put a card into a folder, just drag it there from the
+ folder view, or (SOMETHING ELSE). Remember that address
+ cards can only go in contact folders, just like mail can
+ only go in mail folders, and calendars in calendar folders.
</para>
</sect3>
@@ -251,7 +254,11 @@
and can never remember his phone number.
</para>
<para>
- To mark a card as belonging to a category, do this:
+ To mark a card as belonging to a category, click the
+ <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button at the lower
+ right. A dialog box will pop up with check-boxes for
+ different categories in it. You can select as many or as
+ few categories as you like.
</para>
<para>
Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category by:
diff --git a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml b/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
index cf655d42fc..dbfbe7d8df 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml
@@ -1,142 +1,218 @@
+<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
+
+<chapter id="usage-calendar">
+ <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
+ <para>
+ To begin using the calendar, select
+ <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
+ bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts with a display
+ of one day on a yellow ruled background. There's a month calendar
+ in the upper right and a To-do list in the lower right. The
+ calendar's daily view is shown in <xref
+ linkend="usage-calendar-fig">.
+
+ <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
+ <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
+ <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
+ <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
+ </graphic>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
+
+ </para>
+ <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
+ <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
+ month, or by the year. To do so, use the calendar-shaped
+ buttons on the right side of the toolbar.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of time
+ here.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
+ Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
+ different calendar format, choose
+ <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the ways that different calendars can work here, and
+ how the different calendars work together.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
+ <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ The <application>Evolution</application> 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
+ <application>Evolution</application> 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.
+ </para>
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
+ <title>Creating events</title>
+ <para>
+ To create a new calendar event, select
+ <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then <guimenuitem>
+ Appointment</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or
+ click the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button on the left end of
+ the toolbar. The <interface>New Appointment</interface> dialog
+ will pop up with the usual menu bar, tool bar, and window full
+ of choices for you. I'm going to skip the the more
+ self-explanatory items, like the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel>
+ and <guilabel>Owner</guilabel> of the event (which is probably
+ you), and cut right to the more intersting ones.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Your event must have a starting and ending date &mdash; by
+ default, it's 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>. For the purposes of the calendar, an
+ <guilabel>All day event</guilabel> begins at ten in the
+ morning, runs until eleven at night, and is displayed at the
+ top of a day's event list rather than inside it. This allows
+ you to include events of shorter duration within it. A
+ conference might be an all day event, and the various lectures
+ might be timed events that happen during the all day event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can have as many as four different
+ <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>, any time prior to the event
+ you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Display</guilabel> means a window will pop up on
+ your screen to remind you of your event.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click <guilabel>Audio</guilabel> to have your deliver a
+ sound alarm.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Select <guilabel>Program</guilabel> if you would like
+ some additional application to run as a reminder. You
+ can enter its name in the text field, or find it with
+ the <guibutton>Browse</guibutton> button.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you select <guilabel>Mail</guilabel>, then
+ <application>Evolution</application> will send an email
+ reminder to the address you enter into the text field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Classification</guilabel> is a little more
+ complicated, and only applies to calendars on a
+ network. <guilabel>Public</guilabel> is the default category,
+ and a public even tcan be viewd by anyone on the calendar
+ sharing network. <guilabel>Private</guilabel> means
+ (SOMETHING), and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> means that
+ (SOMETHING ELSE).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe
+ repitition in events ranging from once every day up to once
+ every 100 years. You can then choose a time when repitition
+ will stop, and, under <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick
+ individual days when the event will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+ recur.
+ </para>
- <chapter id="usage-calendar">
- <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
<para>
- To begin using the calendar, select
- <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
- bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts in daily view mode
- The calendar's daily view is shown in
- <xref linkend="usage-calendar-fig">:
+ Once you're done with all those settings, click on the disk
+ icon in the toolbar. That will save the event and close the
+ event editor window. If you want, you can alter an event
+ summary in the calendar view by clicking on it and typing. You
+ can change other settings by clicking once on the event in the
+ <interface>calendar view</interface> to select it, and then
+ choosing <guimenuitem>Event Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
- <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
- <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
- <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
+ <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
+ <para>
+ 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:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition, you can use
+ <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
+ request on another person's calendar. To do so, first
+ select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
+ to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
+ Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
+ you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
+ HERE...). <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
+ event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
+ a confirmed, event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
+ event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
+ select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
+ Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
+ Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
+ "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
+ feature may not at all exist!)
+ </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>
- <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
- <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
- <para>
- You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
- month, or by the year. To do so, click the buttons at the top
- of <application>Evolution</application> with the numbers 1, 5,
- 7, 31 respectivly.
- </para>
- <para>
- Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of
- time here.
- </para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <para>
- In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
- Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
- different calendar format, choose
- <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Describe the ways that different calendars can work here,
- and how the different calendars work together.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
- <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
- <para>
- The <application>Evolution</application> 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
- <application>Evolution</application> 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.
- </para>
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
- <title>Creating events</title>
- <para>
- While looking at the calendar, select <guimenuitem>New
- Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press
- <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>New
- Appointment</interface> dialog will appear. (INSERT
- DESCRIPTION OF INTERFACE HERE: Date, Time, Recurrence,
- Reminders, and Tentative/Confirmed)
- </para>
- <para>
- You can alter those settings later by clicking once on the
- event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
- select it, and then choosing <guimenuitem>Event
- Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
- </para>
- </sect2>
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
+ <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
+ <para>
+ Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
+ I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
+ probably a screenshot.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+</chapter>
- <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
- <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
- <para>
- 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:
- </para>
- <para>
- In addition, you can use
- <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
- request on another person's calendar. To do so, first
- select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
- to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
- Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
- you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
- HERE...). <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
- event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
- a confirmed, event.
- </para>
- <para>
- To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
- event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
- select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
- Properties</guimenuitem> from the
- <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
- Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
- "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
- feature may not at all exist!)
- </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>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
- <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
- <para>
- Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
- I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
- </para>
- <para>
- But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
- probably a screenshot.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- </chapter>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
index fdd988d55d..2291e28548 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
<chapter id="usage-contact">
<title>The Evolution Contact Manager</title>
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@
<sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
<title>Creating, Deleting, and Adding Cards</title>
<para>
- You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
- Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
- <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
- Editor</interface> window will appear. It has two tabs,
- <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information,
- and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific
- description of the person. In addition, it contains a full
- menu bar with all the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE?
- DESCRIBE MENUBAR AGAIN?)
+ You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
+ Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
+ <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>Contact
+ Editor</interface> window will appear. It has two tabs,
+ <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information, and
+ <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific description of
+ the person. In addition, it contains a full menu bar with all
+ the items from the main window (IS THIS TRUE? DESCRIBE MENUBAR
+ AGAIN?)
</para>
<para>
The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab contains no less than seven
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@
</screenshot>
</figure>
-
-!--
+<!--
<variablelist>
<listitem>
<term>
@@ -150,6 +149,7 @@
</para>
-->
+
<para>
You can choose which fields an address card has, and create new
fields for cards. For example,
@@ -211,11 +211,10 @@
<title>Groups of contacts</title>
<para>
<application>Evolution</application> lets you put cards into
- folders, mark them as members of different groups, and search
- through them in a variety of ways. This section will
- describe how to organize and find contact information using
- <application>Evolution</application>. CHANGE THIS paragraph:
- it needs a great deal of work.
+ folders and mark them as members of different categories.
+ Although the contact manager does not support vFolders,
+ categories should provide as much flexibility as you need in
+ grouping your address cards.
</para>
<sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder">
@@ -226,13 +225,17 @@
<guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. You can create more
folders inside that one, or create other address book
folders as well. Each card must be in one and only one
- folder.
+ folder. If you've read <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow">
+ then you already know that you can create a new folder by
+ selecting <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then
+ <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu.
</para>
<para>
- To create a new folder, do this:
- </para>
- <para>
- To put a card into a folder, do this:
+ To put a card into a folder, just drag it there from the
+ folder view, or (SOMETHING ELSE). Remember that address
+ cards can only go in contact folders, just like mail can
+ only go in mail folders, and calendars in calendar folders.
</para>
</sect3>
@@ -251,7 +254,11 @@
and can never remember his phone number.
</para>
<para>
- To mark a card as belonging to a category, do this:
+ To mark a card as belonging to a category, click the
+ <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button at the lower
+ right. A dialog box will pop up with check-boxes for
+ different categories in it. You can select as many or as
+ few categories as you like.
</para>
<para>
Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category by: