NAME
cm - calendar manager, appointment and resource scheduling
tool
SYNOPSIS
cm [generic-tool-arguments ] [ -c calendar ] [ -i [2-3]
AVAILABILITY
The man page you are currently viewing refers to the cm that
is available with OpenWindows. All OpenWindows standard
tools use the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI).
DESCRIPTION
cm is an appointment and resource scheduling tool that
allows you to do the following:
- Display day, week, month, year views
- Schedule single or repeating appointments and todo
items
- Browse and edit calendars of other users
- Set beeping, flashing, or pop-up reminders
- Integrate with mail
- Restrict access to your own calendar
- Print high-quality hardcopy
- View and Schedule appointments on other calendars
- Change the time zone context
A full appointment editor is available for inserting and
editing appointments. Most settings on the appointment edi-
tor can be preloaded through a Properties window available
from the main panel.
Menu accelerators exist for some commonly used menu options:
View:Find, Edit:Appointment, Edit:Properties, and
Print:Current View.
A holiday list can be loaded by creating a file with a name
ending in .cal in the user's home directory containing lines
of the following form:
month/day holiday-name
OPTIONS
-c calendar
The name of the default calendar. The calendar
specified overrides the default user-name or the
Default Calendar specified in the properties of
Calendar Manager.
generic-tool-arguments
cm accepts the generic tool arguments described in
xview(7).
-i [2-3] You have the option of using the OWv2 or OWv3
icon. The OWv2 icon has the current calendar
month displayed. The OWv3 icon has the current
date displayed. The default is the OWv3 icon, so
unless -i 2 is used, the OWv3 icon will be used.
USAGE
cm operates via a set of pulldown menus from button stacks
in a control panel. The menu commands are described below.
The Control Area
View Menu
Day Displays the Day View. Also displays the
Appointments and Todo items in a window for
the selected day.
Week Displays the Week View. Also displays the
Appointments and Todo items in a window for
the selected week. A chart is also displayed
with the times for the appointments shaded.
Month Displays the Month View. Also displays the
Appointments and Todo items in a window for
the month.
Year Displays a year calendar and the appointments
and Todo items for a year.
Time Zone Sets time zones. The current times are
changed to reflect the new time zone.
Find... Searches for an appointment string. A time
range can be specified for the search. It is
case insensitive and will match any part of
the appointment 'what:' fields.
Go To... Displays the calendar at the date requested.
Edit Menu
Appointment
Schedule appointments by either selecting the
day and choosing Appointment from the Edit
menu or by double-clicking on day (in the
month or week view) or on an hour (in the day
view). Inserts, deletes and changes appoint-
ments.
Date:
The date is automatically set by the
tool when a day is selected. You may
change the date format through the pro-
perty settings.
Start: and Stop:
Sets the time of the appointment. A
choice of times is found on the pulldown
menus. The choices are determined by
the Day Bounds settings from the Proper-
ties window. You may set the time for-
mat through the Property settings to be
on a 12 or 24 hour clock.
What:
Filled in with information about the
appointment. This information will be
displayed on the various views.
Alarm:
Determines what action will be taken in
advance of the appointment.
Beep Produces an audible sound.
Flash Inverts the frame of the tool
or the icon if the tool is
closed.
Popup Pops up a reminder window with
the text of the appointment
showing.
Mail Composes a message with the
text of the appointment and
sends it to recipients in the
Mail To field.
Appointmentt | Todo
Specifies whether the event is an
appointment or todo item. Can later be
displayed via the View menu.
DND Drop Target
Allows the user to drag appointments
onto the appointment editor.
Appointments Scrolling List
Automatically set with the current
appointments for that day. It will be
updated as appointments are added and
deleted.
Insert Access Scrolling List
Displays a list of people with insert
access
Repeat:
Indicates whether the appointment is a
repeating event of the specified inter-
val. The number of times the appoint-
ment repeats is controlled by the For
panel item.
Privacy:
Detemines whether others who view the
calendar will see both the time and text
of the appointment, the time only, or
nothing at all.
Insert
Inserts the appointment into the calen-
dar.
Delete
Deletes the appointment selected in the
scrolling list from the calendar.
Change
Changes the appointment selected in the
scrolling list to the edited values from
the appointment editor.
has
For Insert, Delete, and Change, a Forward feature
been added that allows the user to
delete only occurences of the appoint-
ment in the future.
Reset
Clears the appointment editor of context
and sets default values from the Proper-
ties window.
Properties
Sets default values for this tool. These
values are used for setting default values in
the Appointment Editor, setting display
characteristics of the views, granting access
to the calendar, setting printer options and
date formats.
Editor Defaults
Sets default reminder values and advance
times for appointments. Also sets the
default names for which mail will be
sent when a mail reminder is set. Sets
the default privacy for appointments.
Display Settings
Sets default begin and end times for the
day that are used in drawing the chart
on the week view and the grid on the day
view. The User calendar Location allows
the user to set the location of the cal-
log file. Sets a 12 or 24 hour clock.
Sets the default view that will appear
on start up. Sets the calendar to the
Default Calendar specified on start up.
Access List and Permissions
Sets permissions for a list of remote
calendars. The default is 'World
Browse'. These entries will be avail-
able using the Browse pulldown menu
after they are added to the list and the
changes are applied. Access can be
Browse (Read), Insert, and/or Delete.
The keyword world, opens up the calendar
to everyone. The entries have the format
name@host. At this time, UNIX aliases
are not supported.
Printer Settings
Sets the default printer settings The
Privacy Type allows the user to decide
the default Privacy Type to be printed.
Date Format
Sets the default date format including
the ordering of the month, day and year
and the date separator.
Apply
Adds any changes made.
Reset
Reestablishes the values before you
started editing.
Defaults
Reestablishes the tool default values.
Browse Menu
The default menu item is the user name.
Show Multiple Calendars
Allows easy method for finding common
open time slots among a group of users.
Highlighting the names in the scrolling
list will cause the time slots in each
user's calendar to be highlighted if an
appointment is scheduled at that time.
The browser chart represents the degree
of 'busy-ness' with the darker shades
representing a larger number of con-
flicts. The Schedule button brings up
the appointment editor. The Mail button
brings up a mail compose window with the
highlighted names in the To: field. It
includes as an attachment an appointment
icon which makes it easy to schedule an
appointment. The Go To: button allows
easy navigation through the calendars.
The Setup Menu button brings up the
Setup Menu popup.
Show Calendar
Brings up a popup which allows the user
to type in the user name of a calendar
to browse.
Setup Menu
Allows the user to add, change,
remove, or sort names in the Browse
Menu. Any changes made to this list are
also made to the browse menu pulldown
and the Multiple Calendars scrolling
list after the user has pressed Apply.
Add Adds a name to the list.
Change Changes the selected item in the list to
the value in the User Name: text field.
Remove Removes a name from the list.
Sort List Sorts the list.
Apply Permanently incorporates any changes
made to this list, the browse menu pull-
down, and the Multiple Calendars scrol-
ling list.
Reset Reestablishes the values before you
started editing, provided you have not
yet pressed Apply.
Print Menu
Displays the choices for printing hardcopy output:
Current View, Day, Week, Month or Year. You
can also get a hard copy list of the appoint-
ments and the Todo list for a Day, Week,
Month or Year. For v3, multiple pages will
be used to print appointments that do not fit
on one page, and a * will be used to signify
that further appointments follow on subse-
quent pages. with not enough You may set the
printer settings in the Properties.
Prev Changes the display to the previous logical unit
of calendar data.
Today
Changes the display to today's logical unit of
calendar data.
Next Changes the display to the following logical unit
of calendar data.
FILES
/usr/spool/calendar/callog.$USER
$HOME/.desksetdefaults (for v3)
$HOME/.cm.rc (for v2)
$HOME/*.cal
/usr/openwin/bin/rpc.cmsd
SEE ALSO
rpc.cmsd(1), cm_lookup(1), cm_insert(1), and cm_delete(1)
which are simple tty versions of cm.
Solaris User's Guide
"About Calendar Manager" in the Help Handbook available
through the Help option on the Workspace menu.
NOTES
The OpenWindows environment may no longer be supported in a
future release. You may want to migrate to CDE, the Common
Desktop Environment.
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