Calendar actions

The  GoTo  top menu of a calendar offers two additional actions  Today  and  Date  that move the calendar view to the current date or to a date that you specify. Note that date specification depends on the current calendar viewing options: when in month view, you may only select a specific month.

The action menu of an appointment contains the actions you may use to handle your appoint­ments. The following actions are specific actions for appointments.

•        Send to    iCal  exports the appointment data in a format understood by other calen­dar tools, e.g., Outlook and StarOffice. An according file is sent to your Web browser for import of the appointment by such calendar tools. You may also export all ap­point­ments of a calendar using  File    Send to    iCal  in the top menu.

•      Appointment data in the ‘iCalendar’ format (MIME type text/calendar, Windows file extension *.ics) can also be imported to a BSCW calendar using  File    Import (iCal­en­dar)  in the top menu. Alternatively, you can upload one or several .ics files via drag & drop using the drag & drop uploader.

•      If you are working on a Windows platform locally, you can synchronize all ap­point­ments of a BSCW calendar with the appointments in an Outlook calendar using  File    Synchronize  in the top menu (see 9.8 Outlook synchronization for de­tails).

•        Confirm  confirms your participation in the appointment (action available when you are invited as participant and have not yet confirmed).

•        Decline  declines your participation in the appointment (action available when you are in­vited as participant and have not yet declined).

•        Change    Properties  lets you edit the diverse properties of an appointment.

•        Attach  lets you attach a document, URL or note to an appointment. Attachments are in­di­cated in the day and month view by an  icon if the according option has been ac­ti­vated via  View    Entries    Attachments . Click on this icon to access the attachments fol­der. Do­cu­ment and URL at­tach­ments to appointments are handled like attachments to notes. Note attachments are added to the attachments folder as stand-alone notes.

•        Link    to Calendar  adds a link to an appointment of a group calendar to your per­son­al cal­en­dar.

The rest of the actions in the appointment action menu consists of generic actions showing the same behaviour for appointments as they do for other objects.