Scheduling an appointment

You can schedule meetings and appointments from any view except Preferences. You can schedule an appointment for yourself, or you can schedule a meeting and invite attendees.

Scheduling a single meeting from the Appointment page

  1. In any view except Preferences, on the toolbar click the arrow on and select Appointment.

  2. For other ways to start an appointment click here.

  1. In the Details sections, enter the Subject, Location, Free/busy status, and whether it is a private meeting or not and what calendar this meeting should be saved to.

The subject becomes the description in the calendar and is required.

You can use this field to describe the location of the meeting, such as giving an address, building number, floor number. Use the Find Location tab to find and reserve a room that is listed in your company directory. These locations have been created as resource accounts by your system administrator and can be reserved.  The location you select in the Find Location tab is listed as a Resource under the Attendees field and is reserved.

The Show as selection determines if this appointment displays as free or busy on the Schedule Attendees page.

Mark as lets you mark the message as private or public.

If you have multiple calendars, select which calendar is setting up the event from the Calendar menu

  1. In the Time section, set the meeting date and time. Enter the Start date or click the down arrow to display a calendar and pick a date. Select the End date. Select the reminder notification. Attendees will be reminded of this meeting based on the time you set here.

  1. Add resources. Use the Find Resources tab to find and reserve a resource, such as a projector. This information is listed as a Resource under the Attendees field.

  2. Enter the names of the attendees. You can enter attendee names in any of the following ways:

  3. Use the Text field to add additional information to include in the email. To add attachments, click Add Attachments on the tool bar.

  4. Click Save. An email invitation is sent to all attendees and the appointment is displayed in their calendars.

If you are adding an appointment to a shared calendar, you may need to refresh the screen to see the appointment.