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diff --git a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml b/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 9ec3b0f60e..0000000000 --- a/help/C/usage-calendar.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,356 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - -<chapter id="usage-calendar"> - <title>The Evolution Calendar</title> - <para> - To begin using the calendar, select - <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut - bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts showing today's - schedule on a grey and white ruled background. At the upper - right, there's a monthly calendar you can use to switch days. - Below that, there's a <guilabel>TaskPad</guilabel>, where you can - keep a sort of glorified to-do list that's not linked to your - calendar. 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; press the calendar-shaped buttons on the - right side of the toolbar to switch between views. - </para> - <para> - To view yesterday's appointments, (last week's, if you're in - the weekly view, and last month's for the monthly view), click - the <guibutton>Pref</guibutton> button. For tomorrow, next week, - or next month, click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>, and of course, - click <guibutton>Today</guibutton> for today. - </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> - - -<!-- ############### FIXME FIXME FIXME ############ -Feature not yet implemented, and may not be implemented due to -lack of time, resources, and interest. - <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> -################ END FIXME AREA ################## --> - - </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. Of course, you can also set event reminders and alarms - 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 - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - 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. - </para> - <para> - Your event must have a starting and ending date — by - default, today — 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. That makes - it easy to have events that overlap and fit inside each other. - For example, a conference might be an all day event, and the - meetings at the conference would be timed events. Events with - starting and ending times can also overlap, however, and when - they do they're displayed as multiple columns in the day view - of the calendar. - </para> - <note> - <title>Doing Two Things At Once</title> - <para> - If you create two calendar events that overlap, - <application>Evolution</application> will display them as - multiple columns in the calendar window. If you manage to - do both things at once, I'd like to meet you. - </para> - </note> - <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: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - A window will pop up on your screen to remind you of - your event. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Audio</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Choose this to have your deliver a sound alarm. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Program</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select this 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> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Mail</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> will send an - email reminder to the address you enter into the text - field. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </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 event can be viewed by anyone on the calendar - sharing network. <guilabel>Private</guilabel> denotes one - level of security, and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> a - higer level. <!-- FIXME --> Exact determinations and implementations of - this feature have yet to be determined. <!-- FIXME --> - </para> - <para> - The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe - repetition in events ranging from once every day up to once - every 100 years. You can then choose a time when repetition - will stop, and, under <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick - individual days when the event will <emphasis>not</emphasis> - recur. - </para> - - <para> - 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 right-clicking on the event in - the and then choosing <guimenuitem>Edit this Appointment</guimenuitem>. - </para> - </sect2> - -<!-- ############UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES ################### - - <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. - </para> - <note> - <title>Unimplemented Feature</title> - <para>This feature is not yet implemented.</para> - </note> - - <para> - In addition, 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 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 deselect the - event. - </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 ############ --> - - </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 events. Tasks are colored and sorted by priority and - due-date (see <xref linkend="config-prefs"> for more - information), and are included with calendar data during - synchronization with a hand-held device. - </para> - <para> - To record a new task, click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> - button below the list. <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>Priority:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select a level of importance from 1 (most important) to 9 - (least important). - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Item Comments:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - If you wish, you can keep a more detailed description of - the item here. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - Once you've added a task to your to-do list, its summary - appears in the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel> section of the - calendar window. To view or edit a detailed description of an - item, double-click on it, or select it and click - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. You can delete items by selecting - them and clicking on the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. - </para> - </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> - Keelyn has one calendar for her own schedule. Next to that - she maintains one for the conference room, so people know when - they can schedule meetings. On the local network, she - maintains a calendar that reflects when consultants are going - to be on site, and another that keeps track of when the Red - Sox are playing. - </para> - </example> - <para> - To create a new calendar, select - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Calendar</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice>. - - You can place the calendar in any calendar folder and access it - from the folder view. Alarms, configuration, and display for - each calendar are seperate from each other. - </para> - - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - - |