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Oracle Calendar
For anyone who has used XTracs, you will have a basic understanding of what the calendar is used for. There are many more uses for the Oracle Calendar and it is set-up differently for than XTracs.
Changing Your Password
- Open the Tools menu
- Choose Change Password...
- Enter your old password in the top box
- Enter the password you want it to be in the bottom box
- Re-Enter the new password in the box of the pop-up window
Adding A Meeting
- Open the Edit menu
- Open the New menu
- Click Meeting...
- In the Name box, type in the name of the meeting
- In the Location box, type in the location
Start Time
- Next to start time, select the box next to the date
- Go to the month of the meeting
- Choose the day of the meeting
- Click the box next to the time
- Click and hold on the arrow
- Drag the arrow to whatever time the meeting is (the time will change when you move the arrow)
- Note: The clock only increments by 15 minute intervals this way
- Another way to change the time is to click the minutes on the time box
- Use the arrows to the right of the box to move the minutes up and down
- This will allow you to have times ending in :04 or :20
- To move the hours up and down, just click on the hours in the time box
- Use the arrows to move the hours up and down
- To keep the times they are but change AM to PM or PM to AM, click on the am/pm area of the time box
- Use the up arrow to change it from AM to PM or PM to AM
End Time
- Follow the same steps as Start time using the End Time box
- If attempt to drop the End Time earlier than the Start Time, the Start Time will adjust
Tentative
If there is a possibility this meeting could change or get cancelled, check Tentative
Reminders
Go to the Reminders section
Reminders
You can get a pop-up window reminder or an email for each Meeting, Daily Note, Day Event, or Task you put on the calendar.
- After you've completed all the prior steps for a New Meeting, Daily Note, Day Event, or Task, keep the window open
- At the top, to the right of the title box, check the box Remind Me
- Click on the Reminders tab at the bottom
- Choose to either have a pop-up and/or email reminder or have the calendar display the event is up coming on the daily and weekly pages
Display Upcoming For
- Choose whether you'd like to be reminded days or weeks before the event
- If you choose days for the second box:
- Choose the amount of days before the event you'd like to know the event is coming
- At the bottom of each daily page, or of each day of a weekly page, there will be a note that the event is approaching
- If you choose weeks for the second box:
- Chose between 1 and 3 weeks
- At the bottom of each daily page, or on each day of a weekly page, there will be a note that the event is approaching
- If you choose days for the second box:
- If you have finished everything, click OK to save the item, otherwise, continue on to the next area
Remind Me
- Choose whether you'd like to be reminded minutes, hours, days, or weeks before the event
- If you choose minutes for the second box:
- Enter the amount of minutes you'd like to be reminded prior to the event
- Choose whether you'd like a pop-up reminder, an email reminder, or both, and check the appropriate boxes
- If you choose hours for the second box:
- Enter the amount of hours you'd like to be reminded prior to the event
- Choose whether you'd like a pop-up reminder, an email reminder, or both, and check the appropriate boxes
- If you choose days for the second box:
- Enter the amount of days you'd like to be reminded prior to the event
- Choose whether you'd like a pop-up reminder, an email reminder, or both, and check the appropriate boxes
- If you choose weeks for the second box:
- Enter the amount of weeks you'd like to be reminded prior to the event
- Choose whether you'd like a pop-up reminder, an email reminder, or both, and check the appropriate boxes
- If you choose minutes for the second box:
- If you have finished everything, click OK to save the item, otherwise, continue on to the next area
Change View
You can view the oracle calendar for a particular day, week, or month.
Change View to Day
- Open the View menu
- Click Day
- Alternate options include pressing F8 or pressing the Day button on the middle section of the toolbar below the "File Edit..." toolbar
Change View to Week
- Open the View menu
- Click Week
- Alternate options include pressing F9 or pressing the Week button on the middle section of the toolbar below the "File Edit..." toolbar
Change View to Month
- Open the View menu
- Click Month
- Alternate options include pressing F10 or pressing the Month button on the middle section of the toolbar below the "File Edit..." toolbar
- Note: Viewing in Month mode will no longer allow you to see the end times of each event for a day.