OS/2 Professional/OS2PRO194.ISO/os2/wps/progs/relish/family.txt

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The Relish Family of Applications

Developed specifically for OS/2, the Relish family of applications takes
full advantage of its multi-threading and multi-tasking environment.  The
applications are designed to provide calendar, reminder, and scheduling
capabilities in an intuitive, reliable, and easy-to-use way.  The result is
unmatched flexibility in coordinating and managing commitments.


Relish
is a sophisticated calendar, personal reminder, and time management package
that integrates unique functional capabilities with the multi-tasking
environment of OS/2.  Schedule everything you need to be reminded about or
want to keep track of.  Make notes with pertinent who, where, what, when,
and why information.  Relish does all the rest, automatically.  Naturally
Relish can't attend meetings, but it will dial phone calls and run other
OS/2 programs for you.  Runs under all versions of OS/2 Presentation
Manager.


Relish Net
combines group and resource calendaring with personal time management.  It
provides transparent access to the schedules of others.  Relish Net was the
first Presentation Manager solution for LAN-based workgroup scheduling.
Distributed client-server technology supports continued use while
disconnected from the LAN and automatic reconciliation upon reconnection.
Runs under all versions of OS/2 Presentation Manager with IBM LAN Server or
Microsoft LAN Manager.


Relish 32-Bit
evolves to the Workplace Shell environment where events and views of
schedules can be easily manipulated as desktop objects using drag-and-drop
operations.

Relish 32-Bit is easy to use:  Mini-icons, function keys, reference
calendar, time and date window, automatic saving, and more.  A host of
time-saving features, extensive Workplace Shell drag-and-drop support, and
context-sensitive help information foster an intuitive approach to real
world scheduling.  Imagine rescheduling an appointment by dragging it to a
new date or time...  or printing a day's schedule just by dragging the date
to a Workplace Shell printer - it's that easy.

Relish 32-Bit is flexible.  You control your calendar.  Commitments can be
scheduled precisely when you want, from a second to a year, for any length
of time you want - and they can overlap.  No forcing commitments into
arbitrary blocks of time.  In fact, you don't have to be specific, and
meetings and other events can overlap with each other, if you want.  Relish
32-Bit recognizes most time and date formats, even with incomplete
information.

Take immediate action from any reminder:  ok, reschedule, defer, attach a
memo, change the particulars, even change the type (say from a Notation to
a To Do item).  No need to go back to your schedule; no extra steps to
waste your time.

Relish 32-Bit is convenient.  There's an integrated phone book you can use
to keep track of those important names and numbers.  There's also a small
monthly calendar that can remain on your desktop when the program is
minimized, making any day's schedule always just one mouse click away.
Which makes updating your schedule just one click away as well.  What a
time-saver!

Best of all, Relish 32-Bit will always remind you of obligations that
require your attention.  It starts with OS/2, ensuring reminders no matter
what program is running.  And, it always tells you what you missed while
OS/2 was shut down.  Relish 32-Bit makes OS/2 really work for you.
Requires OS/2 Version 2.


Relish Net 32-Bit
allows views of multiple people, places, and/or resources to be treated as
desktop objects - always up-to-date and ready to reference.

Each calendar entry is simply a note with pertinent who, what, when, where,
and why information.  Each note (or collection of notes) is treated as an
object that can be manipulated in various ways.  The user selects a note
summary and uses drag-and-drop or menu options to perform actions on it.
Additionally, the user may change views to see different sets of notes or
the same notes in a different way.  Daily, Weekly, and Monthly schedules
are views as are the To Do and Overdue lists.

A query-by-example strategy provides for ad hoc views.  For example, one
can restrict the Monthly view to include just those meetings with Fred
Jones.  Additionally, the user can define any number of categories, or
groups - typically for different activities or tasks - and assign
individual notes to the various categories.  Selecting a particular group
limits the current view to just that category, while all notes appear when
no group has been selected.

To take full advantage of OS/2's multi-threading, multi-tasking
environment, Relish uses a client-server architecture even in the single
user versions.  The basic concept is that clients are responsible for
window management and the server is responsible for data management.  Thus,
the server manages the Relish database as a single shared resource.
Whenever a note is added or revised, the server immediately becomes aware
of the change, allowing clients to become immediately aware as well.  The
result is that a user looking at multiple views will see any changes made
in one window reflected appropriately in the others.

Another client-server benefit is that the user never explicitly performs a
"save" operation - notes are automatically saved when entered.  Also, the
server monitors all notes to be sure reminders are displayed at the
appropriate times; hence, they appear even when Relish isn't open (as a
window or icon) on the desktop.

The ultimate benefit of using client-server architecture is that it allows
Relish Net to make group scheduling just as easy as personal scheduling and
to fully integrate the two into a single product.

Relish Net achieves this through the fundamental notion of "location
transparency," a departure from the traditional file orientation.  One does
not open a file of appointments, for example, manipulate parts of the file,
remember to save, and finally close it.  Rather, Relish stores and manages
the notes in a database that the user need not know about or maintain.
Thus to view another person's schedule, or place a note on it, one doesn't
have to know where that information is stored.  Acting on another's
schedule, or multiple schedules together, is a natural extension of the
actions performed on one's own schedule.

With server and client components taking full advantage of OS/2 Version 2
features, Relish Net 32-Bit is a logical progression in groupware
functionality.  Runs under OS/2 Version 2 with IBM LAN Server, Microsoft
LAN Manager, or Novell Netware.


Contact Sundial Systems for more information.

Sundial Systems Corporation
909 Electric Avenue, Suite 204
Seal Beach, CA 90740 USA
[phone]


The Fine Print

Relish is a registered trademark of Sundial Systems Corporation.  Hayes is
a registered trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.  IBM, Common
User Access, CUA, OS/2, Presentation Manager, SAA, and Workplace Shell are
trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation.  Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Netware is a registered trademark of Novell Incorporated.