CardiffMail: Overlaying Calendars in CardiffMail Notes

Please Note: Overlaying Calendars is only available in CardiffMail Notes. It is not available in CardiffMail Web or through the Portal.

Overlaying Calendars

You can add calendars from other Notes users, Google calendar and iCalendar feeds to your own Notes Calendar. These will then display overlayed alongside your Notes appointments in your Calendar View. To overlay a calendar:

1. Open your Calendar.
2. Expand Show Calendars from the left hand pane.
3. Click on Add a Calendar.

The Add a Calendar dialog box will be displayed. You can choose to add extra calendars from various sources:

Other CardiffMail Calendars

• Select Notes user's calendar from the Add drop down menu:
  

• Type in the username or surname of the user's calendar you wish to overlay. If you are uncertain of the user's username, search the directory by starting to type the user's surname then click the Search Directory option.
• Select display colours for the Background and Text for the added calendar's entries. It is useful to keep contrasting colours for different calendars so you can easily distinguish between them.
• Click OK to confirm your selections.

Google Calendars

• From the Add drop down menu select Google Calendar (TM).
• Type a name for the calendar in the Label box. 
• Enter the username and password for theGoogle account which contains the calendar. 
• Choose Background and Text colours.
• Click OK.
  

iCalendars

• Select iCalendar from the Add drop down menu.
• Type a name for the calendar in the Label box.
• Enter the full URL for the calendar.
• Choose Background and Text colours for the overlay.
• Click OK.

Once you have added a calendar you will see them listed under Show Calendars in the left-hand pane of your Calendar view in CardiffMail Notes. Individual calendars can be displayed or hidden by ticking or unticking each calendar respectively. Alternatively you can display a calendar on its own tab by right-clicking the name and selecting Open in New Tab.

Appointments from all calendars will show up alongside your own in your Calendar View in the colours you have previously chosen. To edit the colours, right-click the calendar name in the left-hand pane and select Modify.

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