The "Modify details" link takes you to the detailed event creation window.
Creating a detailed event
Click "New event" at the top of the sidebar to open the event creation window:
Key event details are shown at the top of the page.
You can invite others in the right-hand side of the window. Click the icon before each guest's name to set their participation as optional or required:
Note:
- You can invite anyone in the domain who has given you invitation rights (share right "can invite me to an event" (see Sharing Calendars below).
- You can invite anyone in your address books or anyone else simply by typing their email address.
- You can also associate resources to events by adding them the same way you add participants .
- When you add a group, each group member is added individually.
Tabs give you access to additional features: recurring events and availability search.
Event properties
The "Information" tab is used to specify set key event properties:
Recurring events
Recurring events
Go to the Go to the "Repeat" tab to set how often an event is repeated: daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.
- Enter the repeat period (e.g.: every two weeks) in the "Repeat every" text box under the Repeat drop-down menu.
- For events repeated weekly, mark the day(s) you want the event repeated.
- For events repeated monthly, you must specify whether you want the event to be repeated on a day of the month (e.g.: the 3rd of every month) or a day of the week (e.g.: every second Tuesday of a month).
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To delete one instance of an event:
- Display the event.
- Click the event, then click "Delete".
- Select "Only this instance" to keep other instances.
Availability search
The "Find a time" tab allows you to search for a common available time slot for event guests:
BlueMind automatically suggests the first available slot, shown between a green line and red line, based on the date entered in the form.
You can drag and move the whole slot with your mouse, or widen or narrow it by dragging the green and red lines separately.
When the time slot overlaps with one or several users' event(s), a warning message appears at the top of the page:
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- Drive: enables BlueMind storage space
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Once it is linked to an event, the file is available for download in the event details section at any time and it is sent in the invitation email to the event's participants if appropriate.
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Adding/Deleting files
To add a file:
- click "From local PC" to upload a new file
If you have the appropriate role enabled – i.e. "Drive" – a second link is available:
- click "From server" to open the BlueMind file browser and attach a file already available in your storage space
Files can be found again using the file chooser and be attached to other calendar events or messages.
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Sending files to event participants
Files attached to an event are sent to its participants in the invitation email:
- as file attachments if the total message size is under the limit authorized by the server:
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Downloading a file
When an event has an attachment, a paperclip is shown in calendar view:
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Files attached to an event can be downloaded at any time by opening the event's editing form:
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Modifying events
To modify an event:
- In the main window, click the event.
- Change the title and click save.
- Or, click the "Modify details" link. This opens the same window as for creating events (see above).
- Once changes are done, click "Save" at the top left of the page to apply.
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When they modify an event, organizers are given the option to send a notification if they edit one of the following fields:
- url
- title
- recurrence
- priority
- location
- description
- start date
- end date
- availability
- private/public
Adding participants does not trigger the notification Editing events
To edit an event:
- In the main window, click the event.
- Change the title and click save.
- Or, click the "Modify details" link. This opens the same window as for creating events (see above).
- Once changes are done, click "Save" at the top left of the page to apply
option – only the new attendee is sent an invitation notificationDeleting events
To delete an event:
- Click the event in the main window.
- In the dialog box that appears, click "Delete".
- if you are the event's organizer and you have invited several guests, the event is deleted in all the attendees' calendars and they receive an email notification.
- if you are a simple participant, only your attendance is deleted. The event remains in the other attendees' calendars.
The event organizer does not receive any email notification but you are marked as not attending in the event's guest list.
- If you delete a recurring event, you must choose to delete:
- this instance only,
- all past and future instances,
- future instances only.
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Attending events
Display
In Calendar, events are shown differently depending on the user's attendance participation status:
- Event accepted: solid color
- Event pending response: transparent color
- Participation deliberately set as "maybe": solid color with dotted frame
- Event rejected: transparent color, contents crossed out
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Responding to event invitations
To accept or decline an invitation:
- Click the event in the main window.
- In the dialog box that opens, click the appropriate response button.
Depending on your choice, a notification of your response will be sent to the event organizer.
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In an event's detailed view, click "History":
Event history shows:
- action date
- action type: "created" or "updated"
- author: who has performed the action
- origin: where the action has originated from – BlueMind web client, third-party client (thick or mobile), etc.