Create a New Appointment
To display the Appointment page for a new appointment select one of the two options:
- Click the Action menu and select Create New > Create New Appointment from the menu selection.
- Select your Calendar to display within a new tab, and double click on the date/time of the new appointment.
To Create a New Appointment
Save. Click Save to Add item or
Cancel. Click Cancel to clear the page without saving.
- Make this a meeting request. Not checked by default. Checking this option will open a textbox similar to the Web Client "New Message To" button.
- Subject. Required. Enter a description for the appointment into the Subject field.
- Calendar. Default set to personal calendar. This drop down allows an appointment to be created within a different calendar.
Tip: Action > Manage User Options > Calendaring > Default Calendar allows you to control the default calendar setting.
- Location. Optional. Enter location of meeting.
- Priority. Default is Normal. Option to set a Higher or Lower priority for an appointment.
- Status. Used by IMail Collaboration users, sharing calendars.
- Free.
- Tentative.
- Busy.
- Out of Office.
- Canceled.
- All Day Event. Not checked by default. Option to set an appointment takes uses the full day.
- Start. Specify a date and time for the appointment using the drop-down menu.
- End. Specify date and time appointment will end using the drop-down menu.
- Duration. Length of appointment.
- Reminder. Set By default. This option will not display when the user option for disabling reminders has been activated. This option controls the reminder generated for the appointment 15 minutes prior to its start. If you do not wish to be reminded, uncheck the Reminder checkbox. If you want to be reminded earlier than 15 minutes prior to the start of the appointment, select a different number of minutes from the reminder drop down.
Note: To turn off all reminders permanently, go to Action menu Manage User Options > Calendaring and uncheck the Enable Reminders checkbox.
- Make this private. Not checked by default. This option allows an appointment to not display with your shared users.
- Make this a recurring appointment. Check this option to display all the possible recurring cycles.
- Recurrent Pattern. Select Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly.
- Range of Recurrence. Select when the recurring appointment should end.
- Description. This is a read only field, and only appears for display when editing appointment. Currently only Outlook has capability to update this text box.
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