CalendarView

• CalendarView works best with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) calendar server. The feature of storing mail messages with appointments is available only for calendars in the data version 4 format. This format is supported by the CDE calendar server. The OpenWindows^TM calendar server does not support the data version 4 format.

• To find out whether the CDE calendar server is running on a particular machine, as superuser, type:

  # /usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_admin -l -h name-of-machine-to-check

  If the sdtcm_admin command returns a list of calendar names, the CDE calendar server is running on that machine. Otherwise, the command returns the following message:

  # /usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_admin: Could not list calendars because: Service is unavailable.

  The CDE calendar server is available in the SUNWdtdmn package.

• When an appointment is scheduled through MailView, the mail message containing the appointment is saved in the login user's calendar mailbox and a reference to the saved mail message is stored with the appointment. This feature is not available for calendars in the OpenWindows calendar format, data version 3 or less. This is a limitation of the data version 3 (or less) format.

You can use the /usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_convert calendar conversion utility to convert data from version 3 calendars to data version 4 format. Refer to the sdtcm_convert man page for details.

• The Additional Permissions list within the Properties dialog may contain login IDs instead of complete names (for example, joes may be displayed instead of Joe Smith). This can occur if the user's calendar is in the OpenWindows data format or if the entry was added using calendar clients other than CalendarView. If the calendar is in the OpenWindows data format, use the /usr/dt/bin/sdtcm_convert utility to convert it to data version 4 format. Refer to the sdtcm_convert man page. Otherwise, use only CalendarView to add editors.

• For editable calendars, clicking within an empty time slot creates a new 1-hour appointment in that time slot. There may be a significant delay in refreshing the view. If you did not intend to create a new appointment, delete it by clicking the Delete button in the CalendarView detail area.

• To demonstrate automatic update, you need two calendar clients (two CalendarView clients or CalendarView and dtcm).