5.6 Calendar actions
The action menu of an appointment contains the actions you may use to handle your appointments. The following actions are specific actions for appointments.
- exports the appointment data in a format understood by other calendar tools, e.g., Outlook and StarOffice. An according file is sent to your Web browser for import of the appointment by such calendar tools. You may also export all appointments of a calendar using in the top menu.
- Appointment data in the ‘iCalendar’ format (MIME type text/calendar, Windows file extension *.ics) can also be imported to a BSCW calendar using in the top menu. Alternatively, you can upload one or several .ics files via drag & drop using the drag & drop uploader (see 4.2.2).
- lets you participate in the virtual meeting foreseen for this appointment (available if online tools have been specified for this appointment; see 5.4).
- confirms your participation in the appointment (action available when you are invited as participant and have not yet confirmed).
- declines your participation in the appointment (action available when you are invited as participant and have not yet declined).
- lets you edit the diverse properties of an appointment.
- lets you attach a document or an URL to
an appointment. Attachments are indicated in the day and month view by an
icon if the according option has been activated via
. Click on this icon
to access the attachments folder. Attachments to appointments are handled
like attachments to notes
(see 4.9.4). - adds an appointment in a group calendar to your personal calendar.
The rest of the actions in the appointment action menu consists of generic actions showing the same behaviour for appointments as they do for other objects.