Calendar help needed

20 Oct 2013 11:35:35

Thomas Maude

Hi Ive never used ical in all the years Ive had it or synced it with address book or anything like that nor do I want to do that now.

What I need to do is enter my working pattern and repeat it through a year in advance on a monthly rota basis.

To those days and weekends that I work I then want to add some tasks to be done on those particular days.

Ive just opened ical and had a go and haven't got very far in achieving or being able to work out how to do this kind of thing. Maybe I'm using the wrong calendar ?

Just to reiterate that I don't want to sync the calendar with addressee book or anything like that I just want to set up a simple working calendar based around my monthly work rota and the tasks to be done on a regular basis and then copy those month after month.

Hope you ical guru's can help me out .

Thanks
Tom

Re: Calendar help needed

20 Oct 2013 17:23:21

Mick Burrell

You can enter your working pattern and if appropriate, make it repeat, either on a regular monthly basis or, using the custom repeat, on say the first Friday of every month. You can add your tasks as notes (or even in the location field so they show in month view) either on an individual event or before you set the repeat if they're all the same.

Hope that helps.

Re: Calendar help needed

21 Oct 2013 10:39:13

Thomas Maude

thanks for that Mick it's good to know that I can in theory do that. Could you give me some very short directions of how to achieve what you have said. I am reading the help menu's but they aren't focused on what I need, just so you don't think I'm being lazy by asking you how to do it !

Many Thanks
Tom

Re: Calendar help needed

21 Oct 2013 11:28:10

Mick Burrell

Sorted with a somewhat lengthy phone tutorial ;-)

Re: Calendar help needed

21 Oct 2013 11:52:21

Thomas Maude

Yes thanks for your help and time Mick it is much appreciated

Tom

Re: Calendar help needed

21 Oct 2013 18:53:53

Douglas Cheney

There is a good article in the latest iCreate magazine on Calendar.

Re: Calendar help needed

22 Oct 2013 12:48:56

Thomas Maude

Thanks for this Doug Can you tell me which number magazine it is in please Ive had a look and issue 126 seems to be the latest magazine
Many Thanks

Tom

Re: Calendar help needed

22 Oct 2013 20:05:37

Douglas Cheney

It is in issue 126 page 72

Re: Calendar help needed

22 Oct 2013 21:54:31

Thomas Maude

Thanks Doug I will get it and add it to Mick's excellent half hour phone tuition to see if I can become an ical user at last !!

Tom