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“I can haz all my online appointment and schedule information in one merged calendar in NINERMAIL?”

2013/09/06 plagwitz Leave a comment

Yes, you can! Overlay calendars, a much needed feature from Outlook Desktop (as we mentioned earlier) has finally made it into the web version of Outlook (in Office365 the migration of which from live@edu will be finished by the end off the month), as was announced today: “Users can have multiple calendars in a merged view.”
Example: In Outlook Desktop (not available to students), you can not only add a calendar like, icsexport.ics to the right, but, if you click on the (1) little black arrow, add/merge icsexport.ics to the (2) already overlaid calendars on the left, which is much more usable if you need to aggregate content from different sources:
And now also in OFFICE365 NINERMAIL:
This should make the sharing of calendar information much easier, not only for the about 100 LRC resource calendars, but also for other useful calendars that are published on campus:
1. the new LCS calendar
2. the registrar’s academic calendar
3. the campus-wide faculty calendar
4. last not least: your Moodle calendar (view all your moodle assignment deadlines in one place, the same place you check your email)
5. And more… ? Do you know of other calendars, and/or a way to discover them?
The details
1. yet need to be panned out. We assume the feature will “just work” like above in Outlook Desktop when you
  1. share a calendar or
  2. subscribe to a calendar.
2. We’ll provide more information and examples once we see this feature… TBA

2013/08/17 plagwitz Leave a comment

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2013/05/29 plagwitz Leave a comment

Display all items in a category with a single click on the checkbox I front of the calendar group
Display any portion of the time line in " scheduling view" by
Selecting the days in the square calendar sheet in the upper left
Navigate the time line with the bottom horizontal scrollbar
Note the additional helpful "from [start date]" indicator in a mailboxes booking that is not displayed completely

2013/05/29 plagwitz Leave a comment

Right-click the left calendar tree.
Choose context menu item: add calendar group / from address list:
Type " LRC" to search – or the consistent naming scheme you implemented (I hope!).
Select all relevant calendars to add.
Click on button: "calendar".
Click on button: "ok":
Done:

2013/01/09 plagwitz 1 comment

The single screenshot booking FAQ mentions recurrence briefly. If you failed to add recurrence when you booked the LRC for your class, you can likely still add it:
Go to your NINERMAIL calendar, open your “meeting”, like so:
1. if the (1) recurrence indicator is missing or if, when browsing your NINERMAIL calendar for the term, your class booking shows up not every week, only during the first?
2. Then (2) open your class booking by double-clicking on it.
In the window of your class booking, do these steps (use your own class times, not the ones in the example)
1. note how the (1) tooltip for the “repetition” dialogue says “repeat”;
2. classes meet (2) “weekly”, but more complex schedules can also be set up (“repeat every x week”)
3. don’t forget to (4) “end by” the last day of classes.
You will receive an immediate response from the LRC classroom in your NINERMAIL inbox. Check it for and report any problems that you cannot resolve to the LRC reception desk.