5.4. Modification, repeated appointments and other fun stuff.

It could even happen to you. You have made an appointment and someone calls to reschedule. What do you do? This is actually very simple. Just click on the start-end time link of the specific appointment. With our previous example this should be the "13:00 - 15:00" text on top of the white block. This will bring you to the 'display appointment' screen. Here you can see the details of the appointment and even click on the same links as you could in the calendar screen. But now you also have some menu options in the upper left part of the menu. The options you see there are very easy. Click on "new" to make a new appointment, "New (repeating) to make a repetitive appointment (we talk about that one in a minute), "Change" to change the current appointment (clicking on that one will bring you to the appointment screen we saw earlier), "Create a note" to make a note (see the chapter about notes on that one) and "Get Ical File" to have TUTOS generate and send your browser an Ical file. Since Ical files are files with appointment information formatted according to the Ical standard you can use that file to, say, email it to someone else who can then import it into his or her calendar system.

Let's go back to the "New (repeating)" option we saw earlier. Clicking on that one will give us the same screen we saw before but with some difference. Well, before saying anything more I want you to look at the next picture (and I'll call my lawyer :-).

As you can see it looks a lot like the appointment screen we saw earlier. But this time we can enter a repetitive appointment. Let's say we would like to schedule a meeting for the next 4 weeks with our team every Monday from 9:00 till 10:00 to talk about this weeks activities. If this appointment should occur every week indefinitely we would check the "no end date' checkbox. When we are done with entering the data it should like something like the next picture.

When done we click on the "Enter" button and see the result in the next picture. As you can see repetitive appointments are marked with a small circled "R" for clarity.