 About calendars
Your personal FirstClass calendar is like a personal organizer. It records calendar events and tasks.
Unlike a personal organizer, you can permit other people to view and update your FirstClass calendar. This allows everyone to schedule meetings at mutually convenient times.
FirstClass calendars work much like conferences; your administrator may create public calendars and give you access to them, or you can create your own calendars and give others access to them.
Types of calendars
FirstClass supports the following types of calendars:
• personal calendar
This is your own calendar. You can limit others' access to your personal calendar by updating your calendar permissions, just as you would update the permissions of a calendar that you created.
• group calendar
A public calendar that lets a specific group of people coordinate their time and tasks.
• resource calendar
A public calendar that represents a specific resource, such as a projector. A resource calendar is updated when users book the resource as part of creating a calendar event.
• location calendar
A public calendar that represents a specific resource, such as a meeting room. Location calendars are updated just like resource calendars.
Opening calendars
To open your personal calendar, choose File > Open > Calendar.
To open another user's calendar, open the shortcut menu from the user in the Directory, Who's Online list, message headers, or Instant Message forms, then choose Open User Calendar.
Calendar views
You can split a calendar into panes, and look at it using the same views, as you do for conferences. While in these views, you can do the same things you do with messages. For example, in List view you can sort calendar events.
In addition, there are the following specialized calendar views:
• month
Shows the least detail, and highlights the current day. Choose View > View by Month.
• week
Highlights the current day. Choose View > View by Week.
• day
Shows the most detail, in time slots. Tasks and untimed events are displayed at the top of this view. Choose View > View by Day.
• Today list.
Shows events that take place today and tasks that start today or are still ongoing. Choose View > View Today List.
This view includes a mini month pane. The bigger you make this pane, the more months you will see in it. Days containing events are in bold.
You can select the view you want for each pane of the calendar.
Customizing calendar views
You can customize your calendar views in the following ways:
• display week numbers (month and week views)
• change the day on which the week starts (month view and mini month pane).
To customize your calendar views, make the changes you want in your calendaring preferences.
Calendar navigation
The navigation buttons in the top right corner of the special calendar views let you scroll backward and forward through calendar pages. You can also return to the current month, week, or day.
If you see one of these buttons in day view
  it means there are items out of sight. Click the button to display the items.
To open the first unread item, choose Collaborate > Navigation > Next Unread.
Using the mini month pane to navigate
You can use the mini month pane of the Today list view to navigate and change the view in the other pane. For example, if your calendar has a vertical split bar, and you are displaying the Today list in the left pane, selections in the mini month calendar affect the view in the right pane.
To change the months displayed in the mini month pane, click
or
 To change the years, click
 or Making selections in the mini month pane
To select a specific date in the mini month pane, click it. To select multiple consecutive dates, do one of the following:
• click the first date, then drag the cursor over the remaining dates
• click the first or last date, then press Shift plus the forward or back arrow key as many times as required.
To select a week, click to the left of it. To select multiple weeks, click to the left of the first week, then drag the cursor straight down until all desired weeks are selected.
To select a month, click its name.
To change your selection, you can:
• press the forward or back arrow key
If you had one day selected, the next or previous day is selected. If you had one month selected, the next or previous month is selected.
• press the up or down arrow key.
If you had one day selected, the same day in the next or previous week is selected. If you had a block of days selected, the next or previous corresponding block is selected (for example, the next or previous week).
How the mini month pane affects the view
Assuming that you have the Today list and mini month pane displayed in the left pane, these are the changes you will see in the right pane as you make selections in the mini month pane.
If you select one date, that date is displayed in day view. If you select multiple dates, they are all displayed in day view.
If you select a week, that week is displayed in week view. If you select multiple weeks, they are all displayed in week view.
If you select a month, that month is displayed in month view.
Printing calendars
To print a calendar immediately, using your print layout defaults, click the Print toolbar button. The active pane is printed in the current view.
If you choose File > Print, the Print Layout form opens, allowing you to specify the dates and view you want to print.
 NoteAny changes that you make on the Print Layout form are not saved as defaults when you open this form using File > Print.
Calendar reminders
When you create a calendar event or task, you can tell FirstClass to generate a reminder at the time you specify. Event participants can change this for their copies of the event.
The reminder appears as a popup window if you are logged into a server. To see the details of the event or task, click Details in this window. To make this reminder reappear, specify when you want to see the reminder again at "Snooze", then click Snooze.
To specify a default reminder time for all events and tasks that you create, select "Set default reminder" and choose or type the time in your calendaring preferences.
If you aren't logged in, the reminder is sent to your Mailbox as a message.
Forwarding calendar reminders to pagers
FirstClass can notify you of calendar reminders through your pager, if you have an email-enabled paging system.
To forward calendar reminders to your pager, update your paging preferences. Choose Yes or Urgent Only at "Calendar items".
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