NAME

cm − calendar manager, appointment and resource scheduling tool

SYNOPSIS

cm [ generic-tool-arguments ]

AVAILABILITY

The man page you are currently viewing refers to the cm that is available with OpenWindows.  All OpenWindows standard tools use the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI).  For more information about the OPEN LOOK UI, refer to the OpenWindows User’s Guide. For information about installing OpenWindows, refer to the OpenWindows Installation and Start-Up Guide.

DESCRIPTION

cm is an appointment and resource scheduling tool that allows you to do the following:

- Display day, week, month, year views
- Schedule single or repeating events
- Browse and edit calendars of other users
- Set beeping, flashing, or pop-up reminders
- Integrate with mail
- Restrict access to your own calendar
- Print high-quality hardcopy

A full appointment editor is available for inserting and editing appointments.  Most settings on the appointment editor can be preloaded through a Properties window available from the main panel. 

OPTIONS

generic-tool-arguments
cm accepts the generic tool arguments described in xview(1). 

USAGE

cm operates via a set of pulldown menus from button stacks in a control panel.  The menu commands are described below.  AreaTheControl

ViewMenu

Day Displays the appointments for a day.  The default is today. 

Week Displays the appointments for a week.  A graphed display is also displayed with the times for the appointments shaded.  The default is the current week. 

Month Displays the appointments for an entire month.  The default is the current month. 

Year Displays a full year. 

Edit

Appointment
Schedule appointments by either selecting the day and choosing Appointment from the Edit menu or by double-clicking on day (in the month or week view) or on an hour (in the day view). Inserts and deletes appointments.

Date: Automatically set by this tool, but may be changed. 

What:
Filled in with information about the appointment. This information will be displayed on the various views.

ScrollingList
Automatically set with the current appointments for that day. It will be updated as appointments are added and deleted.

Start: and End:
Sets the time of the appointment. A choice of times is found on the pulldown menus. The choices are determined by the Day Bounds settings from the Properties window.

Repeat:
Indicates whether the appointment is a repeating event of a daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly or yearly interval. The number of times the appointment repeats is controlled by the Repeat Abbreviated Choice below the toggles.

Reminder:
Determines what action will be taken in advance of the appointment.

Beep Produces an audible sound. 

Flash Inverts the frame of the tool or the icon if the tool is closed. 

Open Pops up a reminder window with the text of the appointment showing. 

Mail Composes a message with the text of the appointment and sends it to recipients in the MailTo field. 

Advance
Specifies the amount of time preceding the event the Reminder will be activated. 

Add Adds the appointment to the calendar. 

Delete
Deletes the appointment selected in the scrolling list from the calendar.

Change
Changes the appointment selected in the scrolling list to the edited values from the appointment editor.

Defaults:
Clears the appointment editor of context and sets default values from the Properties window.

Properties Sets default values for this tool.  These values are used for setting default values in the Appointment Editor, setting display characteristics of the views, and granting access to the calendar. 

EditorDefaults
Sets default reminder values and advance times for appointments.

DayBoundaries
Sets default begin and end times for the day that are used in drawing the chart on the week view and the grid on the day view.

BrowserCalendars
Sets a default list of remote calendars to be automatically loaded at startup time. The entries have the format name@host. These entries will be available using the Browse menu. 

andAccessList
Sets default access to the calendar. Access can be Browse (Read), Insert (Add), Delete (Remove). The keyword world, opens up the calendar to everyone.  The entries have the format name@host.  At this time, traditional UNIX groups are not supported. 

Apply Adds any changes made. 

Reset Reestablishes the values before you started editing. 

Defaults Reestablished the tool default values. 

Browse Sets the tool’s context to a named calendar.  You can display and edit appointments for other users.  Entries have the format name@host and are entered by typing into the Name text field and pressing Add.  The entry will be added to the scrolling list and can then be selected for browsing. 

Print Displays the choices for printing hardcopy output. 

Day, Week, Month, or Year

OptionsCMPrinter

Postscript output can be sent to a file or to a printer named in the Printer text field.  The default printer is lw.  Output width, height, positions from the left and bottom, and number of copies can be set in their respective text fields. 

Previous
Changes the display to the previous logical unit of calendar data.

Today Changes the display to today’s logical unit of calendar data. 

Next Changes the display to the following logical unit of calendar data. 

FILES

/usr/spool/calendar/callog.username

$HOME/.cm.rc

/usr/etc/rpc.cmsd or $OPENWINHOME/rpc.cmsd

SEE ALSO

rpc.cmsd(1)
 

{:heading=>"CM\|(\|1\|)\0\0\(em\0\0\∗(]D"}  —  Last change: 11 June 1990  —  Last change: 11 June 1990