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+ <chapter id="usage-calendar">
+ <title>The Evolution Calendar: Time-Tamer Extraordinaire</title>
+ <para>
+ To begin using the calendar, select
+ <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut
+ bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts in week view mode (IS
+ THIS TRUE? CHANGE TEXT TO FIT FEATURE). The calendar week view is
+ shown in <xref linkend="usage-calendar-fig">:
+
+ <!-- ============== Figure ============================= -->
+ <figure id="usage-calendar-fig">
+ <title>Evolution Calendar View</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo>
+ <graphic fileref="cal-pic" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
+ </graphic>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= -->
+
+ </para>
+ <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view">
+ <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ You can view your calendar by the day, by the week, by the
+ month, or by the year. To do so, click BUTTONS SOMEWHERE.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the less-obvious differences among the views of
+ time here.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports
+ Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a
+ different calendar format, choose
+ <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the ways that different calendars can work here,
+ and how the different calendars work together.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts">
+ <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title>
+ <para>
+ The <application>Evolution</application> calendar allows
+ you to schedule events for yourself or a group of people.
+ It can handle events that repeat, event lengths from ten
+ minutes to multiple days, and events that have a date but
+ no specific time. You can set overlapping events, although
+ <application>Evolution</application> will warn you about
+ trying to do two things at once. You can also set event
+ reminders so that you don't forget about everything you've
+ just put into your calendar. Basically, it can handle almost
+ any schedule you throw at it.
+ </para>
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic">
+ <title>Creating events</title>
+ <para>
+ While looking at the calendar, select <guimenuitem>New
+ Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press
+ <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>New
+ Appointment</interface> dialog will appear. (INSERT
+ DESCRIPTION OF INTERFACE HERE: Date, Time, Recurrence,
+ Reminders, and Tentative/Confirmed)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can alter those settings later by clicking once on the
+ event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
+ select it, and then choosing <guimenuitem>Event
+ Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group">
+ <title>Appointments for Groups</title>
+ <para>
+ If you have your calendar set up to work with other
+ calendars over a network, you can see when others are
+ available to meet with you. To browse other people's
+ calendars over your local network, do this:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition, you can use
+ <application>Evolution</application> to mark a meeting
+ request on another person's calendar. To do so, first
+ select <guimenuitem>New Appointment</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>MENU</guimenu>, or press <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>
+ to bring up the <interface>new event</interface> window.
+ Then describe the event as you would any other. Before
+ you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION
+ HERE...). <application>Evolution</application> will
+ automatically send email to each person on the request
+ list, notifying of the time and date of the meeting you
+ have requested with them. In addition, it will mark the
+ event on your calendar and on theirs as tentative, rather than
+ a confirmed, event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the
+ event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to
+ select it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event
+ Properties</guimenuitem> from the
+ <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu. In the <interface>Event
+ Properties</interface> dialog window, click the
+ "tentative" button to un-mark the event. (NOTE THAT this
+ feature may not at all exist!)
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-privs">
+ <title>Scheduling privileges</title>
+ <para>
+ There are several levels of scheduling privileges. You
+ can set whether people can see your calendar, whether they
+ can request meetings or appointments, and whether they can
+ create appointments. This section may have to be deleted,
+ because I don't know if we are going to support privileges
+ at all.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="usage-calendar-organize">
+ <title>Organizing your Appointments</title>
+ <para>
+ Until I have <application>Evolution</application> running properly,
+ I have no idea how this sort of organization will actually work.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ But this section will have at least two paragraphs, and
+ probably a screenshot.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter>