Calendar:Documentation

This page should be used for planning SUMO documentation for the Calendar Project. If you would like to contribute, please contact a member of the team.

Here follow some suggestions on which areas of Calendar could be documented. This is by no means all, feel free to add more.

• "Getting Started with Thunderbird, Lightning and your Google Calendar" (i.e. update with permission Jonny's faq at: http://bfish.xaedalus.net/2007/04/stay-in-sync-with-gcal-and-thunderbird/ - a quick and concise summary of getting started and doing the most common tasks for the most popular calendar provider
• Possibly transfer some FAQ items from Calendar:GDATA_Provider
• How do I access <insert calendar provider here, i.e yahoo, google> ?
• How do I open an ICS file
• How do I subscribe to a remote calendar
  • Explain different calendar types (caldav, webdav, ...)

• Main Calendar View
  • Sorting Calendars in the Calendar List (DnD, Ctrl+Up/Down)

• Event Dialog
  • How to create certain recurring events (custom)
  • Custom alarms
    • In which cases Email/SMS alarms are available
  • Inviting attendees
  • Show time as free / show time as busy

• Setting up Invitations (i.e the email in the calendar properties dialog)
• Using Freebusy

• Explain the Today pane
• Explain Import/Export

• Give an overview of all keyboard shortcuts, with a link to the Thunderbird Keyboard Shortcuts

• Migrating profile data between Sunbird and Lightning.
  • Describe calendar-specific profile files
  • Explain how to move Lightning calendars to Sunbird and vice versa
  • See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_from_Sunbird_to_Lightning

• Calendar:Adding_a_holiday_calendar