CardiffMail: What's new in CardiffMail Notes and Web

The latest version of CardiffMail [Notes and Web] has some great new features to improve both performance and everyday productivity.

New functionality includes

• the ability to overlay Calendars to your own CardiffMail calendar, allowing you to view other users calendars in your own, and
• the addition of the SearchAssist button for more user friendly searching in Notes.

In addition, significant improvements have been made to the usability of Cardiffmail including:

• the ability to perform meeting actions from the preview pane,
• drag and drop functionality,
• improved spell check facility, 
• improved message editor allowing much more control of rich text elements,
• improved context menus for better access to controls.

 All of these improvements are explained in a new What's new in CardiffMail guide on the MWE Help site.

Please note some of these features are only available in CardiffMail Notes.

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.

Create Shortcuts to Files, Folders and Programs from Notes

Create shortcuts to quickly access regularly used programs, files or folders from within Notes.

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CardiffMail: Creating a Signature

Do you often forget to add your name and contact details to the bottom of an email? Or are you just bored with all that extra typing? Creating a signature will easily allow you to add information at the end of your email.

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CardiffMail: Spell Checking

CardiffMail Notes has a spell check feature that can automatically check spellings as you type. There is an extensive default dictionary, but you can also add your own commonly used words to your user dictionary.

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CardiffMail: Calendar Tips III

Have you ever had to arrange meetings that occur at the same time every week? Does it drive you mad having to enter each one individually? Well here's a tip on how to create recurring Calendar entries:

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CardiffMail Notes: Using the Sidebar

In CardiffMail Notes you will see a Sidebar that provides you with quick and easy access to your Sametime Contacts, Calendar, My Widgets and News Feeds. The Sidebar is customisable to your needs.

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CardiffMail Notes: Using Special Characters in Notes

Did you know you can quickly and easily add special characters to your emails?

CardiffMail Notes has a facility where by you can instruct it to combine two characters by holding down the Alt and F1 keys, letting go, then typing the 2 characters you want to combine.

For example to type the é character: hold down alt, press F1, let go, then type e followed by ´.

Similarly, to type the â character: hold down alt, press F1, let go, then type a followed by Shift + 6 (the ˆ symbol).

CardiffMail: Calendar Tips II

Both CardiffMail Notes and Web allow you to organise your working time through the calendar. This blog entry contains a few tips that will help you to make more use of your calendar.

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CardiffMail: Logging In

Advice on how to log in to CardiffMail and the options available to you.

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CardiffMail: Checking Responses to Meeting Invitations

If you've set up a meeting in CardiffMail then you can quickly check invitee's responses.

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CardiffMail: Folders and Views

CardiffMail uses Folders and Views to help you organise your items. Folders allow you to group together messages for your convenience. Views display messages with specific criteria, from all folders. For example there is a Sent view that shows all sent items no matter what folder they are in. An item can only be in one Folder, but could be seen through several Views.

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CardiffMail: Calendar Tips I - Busy Search

Calendar Tips I: Busy Search

Both CardiffMail Notes and Web allow you to organise your working time through the calendar. Knowing how to use Busy Search is a useful tip for arranging meetings.

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CardiffMail Notes: Have you seen what I've been looking for?

Lost an email? Need to find it quickly? Well Notes contains a powerful search tool. You just need to know how to use it!

CardiffMail Notes: Using RSS and Atom Feeds

Receive news and updates from your favourite sources by subscribing to RSS or Atom feeds in Notes.