Calendar Settings

How to open the Calendar settings:
    Click the Settings icon  in the menu bar. Click on All settings.You can also click on Settings in the App Launcher.The Settings window opens.
    Click on Calendar in the left pane.
The settings can be found in the following sections:
  • Layout
  • Your week
  • Appointment reminders
  • Additional timezones
  • Advanced settings

Layout

  • Time scale. Specifies the interval for dividing the time grid in the DayWork weekWeek calendar views.

Your week

  • Working time. 
  • Start. Defines the start of the working hours.
  • End. Defines the end of the working hours.
  • Work week. 
  • First day. Defines the beginning of a work week.
  • Length. Defines the number of days of a work week.See  Day, Work week, Week, Month or Year calendar view. 

Appointment reminders

Defines default values for reminders when creating new appointments.
  • Default reminder for normal appointments or recurring appointments
  • Default reminder for all day appointments
  • Default reminder for appointments in birthday calendar
To change a setting, click on the current setting. Change the current reminder in the Edit reminders window. You can add further reminders.

Additional timezones

Allows you to add additional timezones that can be displayed in the calendar. See  Managing favorite time zones 

Advanced settings

  • Calendar. 
  • Show birthday calendar. Defines whether a birthday calendar is displayed in the folder view.
  • Show declined appointments. Defines whether appointments that you declined are displayed. See  Responding to Appointment  Invitations
  • Subscribe to shared calendars. See  Subscribing to public and shared calendars 
  • Appointments. 
  • Always mark “Participants can edit appointments” when creating or editing appointments. Defines whether participants by default get the permission to edit an appointment.
  • Automatically mark all day appointments as “free” when creating or editing appointments. Defines whether all day appointments are displayed as free by default.
  • use first category color for appointments. Defines whether appointments to which you have assigned a category are displayed in the color of that category. When assigning multiple categories to an appointment, the color of the initially assigned category will be used. See  Using Categories 
  • Automatically apply appointment changes received via email to your calendar. Defines in which cases appointment invitations by external contacts automatically will be added to your calendar.
  • Never. The appointment change will not be applied automatically. The email invitation includes a button for adding the appointment to your calendar.
  • Only from known senders. The appointment change will be applied automatically if the appointment change comes from a sender who is entered as appointment participant or is entered as a contact in one of your address books.
  • Always. The appointment change will always be automatically added to your calendar.
  • Scheduling. Defines which users can view your appointments in the scheduling view. Also see  Using the scheduling view 
User interface:
  •  The Calendar settings menu 
Related topics:
  •  How are appointments displayed in a calendar view?  Editing Appointments 
  •  Searching for Settings  Customized Settings 
Parent topic:  Calendar