Overview
Each calendar of the Calendar
List can have its properties individually modified.
- Calendar properties consist of the calendar name,
appearance, event defaults, publishing/subscription
settings, and Microsoft Outlook synchronization
settings.
- To view or modify a calendar's properties, you can
double-click the calendar in the
Calendar List or use the Calendar Properties command
from the Edit menu.
- When you're done making changes, click the OK button to
save. Or, if you'd like to discard the changes, click
Cancel.
- You can delete the calendar by clicking the Delete
button. You'll be prompted to confirm.
Calendar Name
The calendar can be renamed. The name must be unique
and non-blank. This name will appear in the
Calendar List.
Appearance
The calendar appearance can be modified. This can also
be done using the Appearance
Toolbar, or when editing an event belonging to the calendar,
using the Event Editor. The appearance settings will be used by all
new and existing events belonging to the calendar. Note
that if the
Appearance Option has been
set to allow events to have individual custom appearances, any
events that had their appearance customized will not be affected
by changes on this screen unless the "Apply appearance settings
to all events" box is checked.
- Font name/style - These controls allow
the font, size, and style (bold, italic,
underline) to be modified.
The font size values are in points. The bold, italic,
and underline styles can be toggled using the B, I, and U
buttons, respectively.
- Font color - This is the font color.
For this color property as well as the background colors,
you can select either a custom color, web color, or system
color using the appropriate tabs of the drop-down color
control. You can also type in a color, such as
"White". To define a custom color, right click on an
empty color slot at the button of the Custom tab, as shown
below:
This will result in a Color dialog being displayed, where a
custom color can be defined.
- Background colors - These are the
background colors. You can select a primary background
color as well as a secondary color. These will be
blended together using the specified gradient style.
- Gradient style - This is the gradient
style to be used in blending the two background colors.
It also serves as a preview of how events belonging to the
calendar will appear using the current settings. To
select or preview other gradient styles, click the drop-down
button.
- Override any customized event appearance
settings - If you have enabled the Appearance
Option to allow events to have individually customizable
appearances (rather than using the calendar appearance),
this checkbox allows you to override those customized
appearance settings to match the settings made in this
window for the calendar. If unchecked, the appearance
settings will only be applied to events that have not
previously been customized with their own appearance
settings.
Event Defaults
Default event properties can be specified. These will
be used when new events belonging to the calendar are created.
The defaults can also be used when importing new events from ICS
and Excel, if they don't include this data. For example, if you have a calendar whose events you'd like to
default to sending email reminders 4 hours before the event
starting time, you can specify this in the calendar properties.
Any new events will automatically default to having this
property. Each calendar can have its own event defaults. You can
also make the current calendar's settings the defaults for any
new calendars by checking the "Use these defaults for new
calendars" box.
- Default length - This is the default
event length to be used when creating a new event. You
can select a length from the list, or type in any length of
time, from minutes to months. Events can also default to
being all day.
- Default event actions - The actions
entered here are the same as those entered in the
Event Editor, but will
be used by default whenever a new event belonging to the
calendar is created. Properties for the following
actions can be specified:
Publish
The Publish tab allows you to enter or modify the
publishing settings for the calendar. Calendars
are published using the
Standard
iCalendar (RFC 2445) Format. The controls
available on this tab are the same as those provided in the
Publish Calendar
window, accessed from the Publish command of the
Share menu.
Subscribe
The Subscribe tab allows you to enter or modify the
subscription settings for the calendar. You can subscribe
to any calendar file that follows the
Standard
iCalendar (RFC 2445) Format. The controls
available on this tab are the same as those provided in the
Subscribe to Calendar
window, accessed from the Subscribe command of the
Share menu.
Outlook
The Outlook tab allows you to setup automatic synchronization of
the calendar with Microsoft Outlook, which can then synchronize
with many mobile devices, such as iPhone and Blackberry. It can
also sync with Yahoo Calendar.
- Outlook synchronization requires Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later. It is not compatible with
Outlook Express.
- If synchronization is enabled, VueMinder
Calendar will
automatically sync the calendar with a calendar of the same name
in Outlook, at the specified interval.
- You can also
chose to immediately synchronize by clicking the "Synchronize
Now" button.
- If you'd like to decrease the time required to
synchronize calendars with Outlook, you can choose to
exclude events older than a specified number of days from
being synchronized.
- If a reminder has been dismissed in Outlook (or on a
mobile device that syncs with Outlook), the reminder will
also be automatically dismissed within VueMinder Calendar
the next time the automatic Outlook sync occurs.
- The date and time of the most recent
synchronization will be displayed.
- Due to
limitations of Outlook, many of the advanced reminder and
appearance settings of VueMinder Calendar will not be available when
viewing the calendar from within Outlook.
Note: If you have an existing calendar in Outlook you'd like to
synchronize with VueMinder Calendar, the easiest approach would
be to first import
the calendar, and then enable Outlook synchronization in the
imported calendar's properties.
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