You create an appointment scheduling as follows:
•Select in the top menu.
•In the ‘General’ section of the ‘Add Appointment Scheduling’ action form, you specify the following details of the appointment scheduling.
•Name and optional heading, tags and description. The heading appears at the top of the voting form. If missing, the name is taken as heading.
•Date proposals: Select the dates for the appointment. Use the drop-down menus or click on the calendar icon to activate the calendar tool. Time fields may be left open. You may add a remark to your dates, e.g. on the place or duration of the proposed appointment, which will also be shown to the participants. Use the [Add date] button to add more dates if three are not enough.
Note: As soon as someone has voted on the appointment scheduling, you cannot change the dates any more, unless you reset the appointment scheduling. Resetting, however, loses all participant votes so far.
•Time frame and reminder: Enter start and end of the voting period. Voting on the dates proposed is only possible within the time frame given. Specify when you want to be reminded of the end of the voting.
•Details of participation and notification: Specify whether you want to be notified of each voting. You may also allow participants to propose further participants and to vote on a date with “maybe” (in addition to the simple yes-no alternative).
•In the section ‘Participants’, you specify the participants of the appointment and details of their notification.
•Select the participants of the appointment (as you would select members of a workspace). You may enter e-mail addresses of persons who are not registered users of your BSCW server; in the case of appointment scheduling, these persons can take part without registering as BSCW users. When you create an appointment scheduling inside a shared workspace, the members of the workspace are preselected as participants by default.
•Language: Choose the language of the invitation e-mail.
•You may add a personal message to all participants invited: Enter an optional message to be added to the otherwise automatically generated invitation e-mail to be sent to all participants.
•Hit [OK] to generate a preview of the voting form. Here, you have the possibility to change any details of the appointment scheduling or to start the voting process immediately: click on [Change appointment scheduling] or on [Start appointment scheduling now]. Click on [Go back] if you are satisfied with the preview and the voting is to begin at the start date given.
•If you have started the appointment scheduling in the previous step and are a participant yourself, you will be asked next to vote on the dates proposed, which is explained below. At this point, you may also edit the participant list by clicking on [Change participants].
You as the organizer can change most details of the appointment scheduling. Once a participant has voted, however, you cannot change the dates and the voting scheme (‘yes-no’ or ‘yes-no-maybe’), unless you reset the appointment scheduling.
•Select 
in the action menu of the appointment scheduling and change name, description,
voting period, notification details, or participants. Add an optional message to
be included in notification e-mails to participants of a running appointment
scheduling.
•Hit [OK] for the changes to become valid. All participants of a running appointment scheduling will be notified about the changes, new participants will be invited to vote and participants you have removed from the list will be informed.
You may start an appointment scheduling which has not yet begun at any time.
•Select
in the action menu of the appointment scheduling or click on its entry in the
folder listing. In the action form, click on [Start appointment scheduling now].
If a participant proposes new participants and this has to be confirmed by you (depends on your BSCW server configuration), you will receive an e-mail containing a link that takes you directly to the action form for inviting the new (and possibly other) participants.
•The ‘Invite Proposed or New Participants’ action form shows the present participants and allows to add new participants and to remove existing participants.
•Add an optional message to be included to invitations of new participants and to e-mails to participants removed. Click [OK] when you are done.
You as the organizer may send an e-mail message to the participants of a running appointment scheduling.
•Select
in the action menu of the appointment scheduling, enter your message and hit
[OK]. You may send the message to all participants, all participants having
already voted or not voted yet, or select certain participants to receive your
message.
Note that not only the organizer, i.e. creator of an appointment scheduling, but also the manager of a workspace that contains the appointment scheduling can change an appointment scheduling or send messages to the participants.
The voting periods of appointment schedulings may also be viewed arranged as a timeline.
•Select in the top menu of a folder to generate a timeline view of all appointment schedulings contained in the folder.
•Further details are given in 12.1.10 Viewing tasks and projects as a timeline.