Configuring your Calendar
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## Configuring your Calendar

To personalize your Calendar, you need to access the Settings page by clicking the "Settings" tab on the menu bar. Once that page opens, find the Calendar section and click on the "Settings" link. The following page will open:

Figure 8.10. Calendar configuration settings

Check "I will participate in the appointment" by Default

  If you mostly create appointment for other people, for example your Manager or, you may prefer to de-select this option. If you do and you need to create an appointment that you will be part of, you will need to remember to click the box on the new appointment screen.

Send Reminder Email

  Checking this box will force the system to send an e-mail to all people involved in the meetings that you are creating. In addition to seeing the meeting in their schedule, they will also receive an email with the meeting information.

  | Note
  Please note that this option is not enabled by default

Show birthdays in calendar

  If you select this option and the birthdate of the users is entered in the system, you will be able to see those. Birthdays from the contacts module will shown as well.

Calendar View From To

  Those 2 field allow you to change the hours shown in your calendar, by default, these values are 8:00 to 17:00. They can be modified for the start from 5:00 to 12:00 and the end of day from 13:00 to 24:00.

Interval Length

  By default, the daily view shows an entry for every 30 minutes. It can be modified to show interval of 15, 20, 30 or 60 minutes.

Default View in Calendar

  This will decide what view will first presented to you when you access the Calendar module. The choices are Today, Week or Month.

Holiday template

  The Calendar Module allows you to choose different holiday template depending on your country. Use the drop down list to make your choice.

vCal creation method

  You can create vCal files from appointments. This allows you to choose between the creation of a file you can download, or the file being automatically attached to an email. In this case the webmail module will open with a message you can then send.

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