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# Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar

The `Evolution` 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. From office or family to office and family, `Evolution` can handle the schedule.

## Creating events

To create a new calendar event, select File->New->Appointment or click the New button on the left end of the toolbar. The New Appointment dialog will pop up with the usual menu bar, tool bar, and window full of choices for you.

| Shortcut
| If you don't need to enter more information than the date and time of the appointment, you just click in any blank space in the calendar and start typing. You can enter other information later with the appointment editor.

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 `All day event`. An `All day event` appears 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. Of course, events with specific starting and ending times can also overlap. When they do they're displayed as multiple columns in the day view of the calendar.

| Doing Two Things At Once
| If you create calendar events that overlap, `Evolution` will display them side by side in your calendar. However, `Evolution` cannot help you do multiple things at once.

You can have as many as four different `Alarms`, any time prior to the event you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type:

`Display`

  A window will pop up on your screen to remind you of your event.

`Audio`

  Choose this to have your computer deliver a sound alarm.

`Program`

  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 Browse button.

`Mail`

  `Evolution` will send an email reminder to the address you enter into the text field.

`Classification` is a little more complicated, and only applies to calendars on a network. `Public` is the default category, and a public event can be viewed by anyone on the calendar sharing network. `Private` denotes one level of security, and `Confidential` a higher level. Exact determinations and implementations of this feature have yet to be determined.

The `Recurrence` 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 `Exceptions`, pick individual days when the event will not recur.

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 Edit this Appointment.

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