Calendar Adding/Editing appointment

To add a new appointment press the "New Appointment" button or double click the empty area inside the viewing area. You can use shortcuts Ins or Ctrl + N as well. Also you can create a new entry in the List mode by entering data in the upper row.

To edit an already existing entry press the "Edit" button or double click the record you want to edit in the viewing area. Also you can use the Ctrl + Enter shortcut.

When starting editing a recurring appointment, you will see a dialog box, which offers you to choose between editing the current appointment or the whole series. Accordingly, the first option creates a copy of recurring appointment and opens it for editing. The second option will open the editing window for the whole appointment series:

Dialog box for working with appointments:

Fields description:

Subject - a records title.

Start date and time when the appointment is started.

End date and time when the appointment has to be completed.

All day event - marked when the appointment is all day event.

Below you can see the notification options:

Remind before: here you can set a time period when you should receive the appointment notification (before it expires). Select a number of minutes, hours, days or weeks.

To open Extended notification options, click the button to the right of this field.

Priority an appointments priority level. The following priority levels are available: Highest, High, Normal, Low, Lowest, and Unknown.

% Complete this field allows you to track appointment progress (percentage) or to mark the appointment as completed by choosing 100% or by clicking the button to the right of this field.

Recurrence these settings enable you to make any appointment a recurring one. When you change the model or press the "Customize" button, the extended recurrence options window opens, giving you an opportunity to select and set an appropriate recurrence template.

Categories here you can assign one or more categories to the entry. See "Working with Categories" topic for more details.

Description use this field to enter an additional appointment information and its description. The description field supports rich text formatting (RTF), pictures, tables and hyperlink insertion. See Working with text and descriptions topic more for details.

Attachments allows to attach any file to the entry. All attached files will be stored directly in the database. See "Working with Attachments" topic for more details.

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