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Coexisting with other Oracle Calendar clients

Ownership

Oracle's calendar server keeps a record of ownership, similar to Outlook's concept of organizers, for every item added to its database. You may not alter a meeting or event created by someone else, unless that user has granted you delegate access to his or her Calendar folder.

If you attempt to delete a meeting or event that you do not own, it will disappear from your Calendar folder, but will not be not removed from the server database. Instead, your attendee status will be set to Declined, and the meeting or event will remain in your Deleted Items folder.

If you attempt to move a Meeting or Event that you do not own by clicking and dragging it to a new time, the original version will remain in your Calendar as originally proposed. A copy, owned by you, will be created according to your new specifications, to which all original attendees will be invited. Outlook will prompt you with the following message:

You may want to let the Meeting organizer know you changed the Meeting "Title". 
If the Meeting organizer sends an update for this Meeting, your changes will be 
lost. Is this OK?

Since you are not modifying the original Meeting or Event, but rather creating a new one, your copy will not be deleted if the original organizer sends an update. Click OK.

Outlook will now prompt you with the following message:

Your changes could not be saved because you don't have permission to modify some 
or all of the items in this folder. Do you want to save a copy of this item in 
the default folder for the item?

Click Yes to create your altered copy of the original meeting or event. Click No to return to your Calendar without creating the copy.

Changing a meeting or event's free/busy display, reminders, and privacy level by using the right-click pop-up menu will not create a new copy. In this case, however, your changes will be lost if the organizer sends an update.

Entry mapping

Outlook and Oracle's calendar server use different terms to refer to the available types of meetings and events. When Oracle Outlook Connector stores and retrieves meetings and events, it maps between these event types according to the following tables.

From client to server:

Outlook	Oracle calendar server
Meeting	Meeting
Appointment	Meeting (with no other people or resources invited)
All-Day Event	Day Event
Holiday	Day Event
Task	Task
Recurring Meeting, All-Day Event	Repeating Meeting, Day Event
Recurring Task	Unconnected (non-Recurring) Tasks

From server to client:

Oracle calendar server	Outlook
Meeting	Meeting
Day Event	All-Day Event (time shown as Busy)
Daily Note	All-Day Event (time shown as Busy)
Holiday	All-Day Event (time shown as Free)
Task	Task
Repeating Meeting, Day Event or Daily Note	Unconnected (non-Recurring) Meetings and All-Day Events

Importance level mapping

Outlook and Oracle's calendar server have different importance levels. When Oracle Outlook Connector stores and retrieves meetings and events, it maps between these importance levels according to the following tables.

From client to server:

Outlook	Oracle calendar server
High	High
Normal	Normal
Low	Low

From server to client:

Oracle calendar server	Outlook
Highest	High
High	High
Normal	Normal
Low	Low
Lowest	Low

Sensitivity / Access level mapping

Outlook's Sensitivity levels are slightly different from Oracle's calendar server access levels. When Oracle Outlook Connector stores and retrieves meetings and events, it maps between sensitivity and access levels according to the following tables.

From client to server:

Outlook	Oracle calendar server
Normal	Normal
Private	Personal
Personal	Personal
Confidential	Confidential

From server to client:

Oracle calendar server	Outlook
Public	Normal
Normal	Normal
Personal	Private
Confidential	Personal

Deleted Items

Whenever you delete or decline a calendar entry, whether from your Inbox or Calendar folder, that entry is moved to your Deleted Items folder. Other Oracle calendar clients will display your response to these meetings as "Refused".

Warning: If you remove a meeting or event that you own from your Deleted Items folder, it will be deleted entirely from the calendar server database. The schedules of all attendees will be updated with the deletion.