CM(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

cm − calendar manager, appointment and resource scheduling tool

SYNOPSIS

cm [ generic-tool-arguments ] [ -ccalendar ] [ 2-3-i[ ]

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 appointments and todo items
- 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
- View and Schedule appointments on other calendars
- Change the time zone context

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

−c calendar
The name of the default calendar. The calendar specified overrides the default user-name or the Default Calendar specified in the properties of Calendar Manager.

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

−i[2-3] You have the option of using the OWV2 or OWV3 icon. The OWV2 icon has the current calendar month displayed. The OWV3 icon has the current month and day displayed.

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 Day View. Also displays the Appointments and Todo items in a window for the selected day.

Week Displays the Week View. Also displays the Appointments and Todo items in a window for the selected week. A graph is also displayed with the times for the appointments shaded.

Month Displays the Month View. Also displays the Appointments and Todo items in a window for the month.

Year Displays a year calendar and the appointments and Todo items for a year.

Find... Searches for an appointment string. A time range can be specified for the search. It is case insensitive and will match any part of the appointment ’what:’ fields.

EditMenu

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, deletes and changes appointments.

Date: The date is automatically set by the tool when a day is selected. You may change the date format through the property settings.

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. You may set the time format through the Property settings to be on a 12 or 24 hour clock.

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 panel item.

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.

Popup 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.

TodoAppt|
Specifies whether the event is an appointment or todo item. Can later be displayed via the View menu.

Insert 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.

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

SizeRestoreSize/Full
Changes the appointment editor to a large or abbreviated size.

TimeZone

Sets time zones. The current times are changed to reflect the new time zone.

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, granting access to the calendar, setting printer options and date formats.

EditorDefaults
Sets default reminder values and advance times for appointments. Also sets the default names for which mail will be sent when a mail reminder is set.

DisplaySettings
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. Sets a 12 or 24 hour clock. Sets the default view that will appear on start up. Sets the calendar to the Default Calendar specified on start up.

andAccessList
Sets permissions for a list of remote calendars. The default is ’World Browse’. These entries will be available using the Browse pulldown menu after they are added to the list and the changes are applied. Access can be Browse (Read), Insert, and/or Delete. The keyword world, opens up the calendar to everyone. The entries have the format name@host. At this time, UNIX aliases are not supported.

PrinterSettings
Sets the default printer settings

DateFormat
Sets the default date format including the ordering of the month, day and year and the date separator.

Apply Adds any changes made.

Reset Reestablishes the values before you started editing.

Defaults
Reestablished the tool default values.

BrowseMenu

Multi-Browse
Allows easy method for finding common open time slots among a group of users. The Multi-Browser has an editor similar to the one in the main CM for scheduling more than one user at a time. You can easily send mail to a group of users. The browser chart represents the degree of ’busy-ness’ with the darker shades representing a larger number of conflicts.

SingleBrowse
Ability to browse other calendars from browse menu. As calendar names are added to the Multi-Browse scrolling list they are appended to the browse pulldown menu. The list can be sorted through the menu item from the scrolling list popup or the Calendar: pulldown menu.

PrintMenu

Displays the choices for printing hardcopy output:
Day, Week, Month or Year. You can also get a hard copy list of the appointments and the Todo list for a Day, Week, Month or Year. You may set the printer settings in the Properties.

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.$USER

$HOME/.cm.rc

$OPENWINHOME/bin/rpc.cmsd

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