Calendar Manager


All events within WinDates are organized and stored in calendar files.  WinDates provides the ability to create and view multiple calendars providing a method to organize and group events. The Calendar Manager window displays a list of calendar files currently being tracked by WinDates.  WinDates provides a default calendar for storing your events as well as a number of holiday calendars for various countries.  You may create new calendars of your own or subscribe (download) calendars that have been shared by others through the Internet.

Open and Close Calendars

The list of calendars includes a checkbox next to each calendar.  Selecting the checkbox opens the calendar and display it's events in WinDates.  Unselecting the checkbox closes the calendar.

Note: Alarms in closed calendars will not sound.

Calendar Status

The list of calendars includes a status column that may be of the following values.

New

This function allows you to create a new local calendar.  A popup is displayed allowing you to set the display name the calendar and to set the name of the file the calendar data will be stored in.  By default the calendar will be stored in your WinDates directory (normally C:\Program Files\WinDates).

Open

This function allows you to locate and open a calendar file on your computer or on a local area network.  You may open WinDates Calendar Files (.wdt extension) or iCalendar Files (.ics extension).  iCalendar Files opened directly are opened in read-only preview mode.  To edit iCalendar files, import the file into a WinDates Calendar File (see Import topic)

Subscribe

This function allows you to locate and subscribe to an iCalendar stored on an Internet web server.  See the  Subscribe topic for more details.

Publish

This function allows you to publish an existing calendar file to a web server in iCalendar format.  This function may be used to publish a calendar for the first time or to republish changes to an already published calendar.  See the Publish topic for more details.

Edit

This function allows you to edit details of a calendar such as the calendar name.  If the calendar is subscribed or published, the account name and password may be edited here.  If the event has been published, the publish settings may be edited here.

Remove

This function removes the calendar from the calendar manager window.  The calendar file is not deleted from your hard drive and may be opened at a later time using the "Open" function.

List Events

This function links to the Event Manager window.

Set Default

This function sets the default calendar to the currently selected calendar.  This calendar is selected by default when adding new events through the Event Entry window.

Refresh

This function refresh the current calendar.  See the iCalendar Refresh topic for more details..

Refresh All

This function refreshes all currently open calendars.  See the iCalendar Refresh topic for more details.