How Do I Customize Calendar Preferences?

There are three areas of preferences in Calendar:

• General: Allows you to specify general preferences that applies to the Calendar features of the application as a whole.

• Events: Allows you to specify preferences that applies to Calendar events and invitations.

• Notifications: Allows you to specify how and when you would receive notifications for events.

You can customize each of these preferences.

To customize general preferences, perform the following steps:

1. Click General.

   The General tab appears in the central panel.

2. Choose a view from the Initial Calendar View drop-down list.

   Available view choices are:

   • Day

   • Week

   • Month

   • Next Seven Days

   • Agenda

3. Select the time zone of your choice from the Time Zone drop-down list.

4. Under the Calendar Configuration section, you can set the following options:

   • Choose a day of the week from the Week starts on: drop-down list. This option enables you to specify the starting day of the week.

   • Select the days in a week to be included in your work week by checking the corresponding check boxes.

5. Choose the start and end time of your standard working days from the Day starts at and Day ends at drop-down list.

   The options are listed in 30 minutes increments.

6. Click Save Preferences.

To customize event preferences, perform the following steps:

1. Click Events .

   The Event tab appears in the central panel. The Event tab displays the following panes:

   • Invited Events Filter: If you want your declined events to be shown when viewing the calendar, click on the check box corresponding to the Declined Invitation label.

2. Click Save Preferences.

To customize notifications:

1. Click Notifications.

   The Notification tab appears in the central panel. The following properties of a notifications are displayed:

   • Enable Event Notifications

   • Invitations Notifications

2. Select the Enable Event Notifications check box to enable notifications for your events.

   Once you enable the event notifications option, you can set the following attributes for the event:

   • The time interval before the start of the event. You can set the time interval by choosing from the drop-down list. The following options are available:

     • minutes

     • hours

     • days

     By default, event notifications are set to 30 minutes before the start of the event.

   • You can receive event notifications in the following ways.

     • Email : To receive event notifications by email, enable the Send notifications to email address check box and provide the email address to which you want to be notified for the event.

     • SMS : To receive event notifications by SMS, enable the SMS notifications to the following address check box and provide the phone number to which you want to receive the notifications.

3. Enable the Notify me via email of new invitations or invitation changes check box to receive notifications of new or changed invitations.

4. Click Save Preferences.