Chapter 9. Reference

Opens a file dialog allowing you to select a new vCalendar or iCalendar file to load. If you have made changes to the current calendar, you will be given the option of saving them before loading a new one.

For more information about this, please refer to the section called “Importing, Exporting and Maintaining Calendars”.

Choose Print or click the Print icon to print the current calendar. You can specify the range of dates to be printed (either manually or with the Calendar Widget) and the Print Style (Day, Week, Month or To-dos and Journal).

If you choose Print Preview or click the Print Preview icon, the current calendar will be printed on your screen, instead of on your printer. Use this feature to check if the printout will be correct before you start printing.

You can specify the range of dates to be printed (either manually or with the Calendar Widget) and the View Type (Day, Week, Month or To-do).

If you have a different iCalendar or vCalendar file somewhere, and you would like to merge its contents into your own calendar, add as a new resource or open it as a new window, choose this menu item. A good time to do this would be if you received a vCalendar with a few entries via email, for instance.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Importing Calendars”.

This action will open the Get Hot New Stuff dialog, which offers a list of calendars to download. These events can be added to your calendar.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Downloading Using Get Hot New Stuff”.

This action will export all your active events, to-dos and journal entries (independent of to which resource they belong) as a new iCalendar file.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Exporting Calendars”.

From time to time you should delete your old events.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Maintaining Your Calendars”.

This action will remove all the completed to-dos from your active calendar.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Maintaining Your Calendars”.

When you choose Quit or click the Quit icon, the current calendar window will quit, prompting you to save if the current calendar has been modified but not yet saved.

This has no effect on other calendar windows which may be opened. You have to quit each calendar window individually.

Undo the latest action, or in other words, return the calendar to the state it was immediately before the latest action.

Redo the latest action, or in other words, return the calendar to the state it was immediately before the latest undo.

Cuts the currently selected event(s) to the clipboard, removing them from your calendar.

Copies the currently selected item(s) to the clipboard, but leaving them untouched.

Paste inserts the contents of the clipboard into your calendar. The clipboard must contain a valid vCalendar or iCalendar item, provided either by a previous Cut/Copy operation or from a selection made outside of KOrganizer. You will be warned if the contents of the clipboard cannot be understood.

Delete the currently selected item(s), removing them from your calendar.

Choose Find from the Edit or click the Find icon to find events, to-dos and journal entries according to their summary, description, and/or tags.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Searching”.

Switch the display to the Agenda view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Agenda View”.

Switch the display to the Month view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Month View”.

Switch the display to the Timeline view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Timeline View”.

Switch the display to the To-do List view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “To-do List”.

Switch the display to the list view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Event List View”.

Switch the display to the what's next view.

This view displays your next events and to-dos. Events and to-dos are displayed one per line.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “What's Next View”.

Switch the display to the Journal view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Journal View”.

Updates or refreshes the currently displayed view.

Use this submenu to adjust the current view to show more or less data.

In the Agenda view (Day(s) or Week view), you can use the zoom actions to show more or less days (Zoom → In Horizontally and Zoom → Out Horizontally), or more or less hours in the day (Zoom → In Vertically and Zoom → Out Vertically).

This submenu offers access to the filters already created using the Edit Calendar Filters dialog. Select on this submenu the filter that will be used in KOrganizer view. If you do not want to use a filter, choose No filter.

Go to the previous day, week or month, depending on the view.

Go to the next day, week, or month, depending on the view.

Go to the period of time that includes the current day.

Switch the display to the Day view.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Agenda View”.

Switch the display to the Next x Day view, where x is defined in KOrganizer main configuration.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Agenda View”.

Switch the display to the Work Week view.

This is the same as the Week view, except only the working days of the week are shown.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Agenda View”.

Switch the display to the Week view.

The Week view provides a view similar to the Day view. Events for seven days are shown next to each other. All of the functions available for the Day view are available in the Week view, too.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Agenda View”.

Choose New Event... to create a new event.

You can get a detailed description of the event window in the Entering Events section.

Choose New To-do... to create a new to-do. Initially the to-do has no due date, but you can specify one.

You can get a detailed description of the to-do window in the Entering To-dos section.

Choose New Sub-to-do... to start writing a new sub-to-do. The currently selected to-do will be the sub-to-do parent. Initially the to-do has no due date, but you can specify one.

You can get a detailed description of the to-do window in Entering To-dos section.

Choose New Journal... to start writing a new journal entry.

Choose Show to open a dialog showing the details of the currently selected journal entry, event or to-do.

Choose Edit... to edit the currently selected journal entry, event or to-do.

Choose Delete to remove the currently selected journal entry, event or to-do.

Choose Make Sub-to-do Independent to detach the currently selected sub-to-do item from its parent and make it an independent to-do item.

Email the selected event, to-do or journal entry in the iCalendar format.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Publishing an Event, To-do or Journal Entry”.

Send the selected to-do or event to the attendees, and, if necessary, request a response from them.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Sending Invitations and Processing Responses”.

If you changed your status as an attendee, choose this menu item to send your updated status (accepted, tentative, etc.) to the item's organizer.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Answering an Invitation”.

If you plan to cancel an event or to-do, select it, and choose this menu item to notify the attendees about the cancellation.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Cancelling an Event or To-do”.

Request the latest version of the selected event or to-do from the organizer.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Requesting the Latest Version of an Event or To-do”.

Send an alternative proposal to the organizer of the selected event or to-do.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Sending an Alternative Proposal”.

Email your Free Busy information to one or more email addresses.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Free Busy information”.

Upload your Free Busy information to the groupware server. Other users will then be able to retrieve the information.

For more information about this action, please refer to the section called “Free Busy information”.

Click the menu items of this submenu to show or hide KOrganizer sidebar components. Note that the sidebar is visible only when the current view does not use the full window.

Click this menu item to set the desktop date and time formats. Note that this setting is shared between other desktop applications.

Choose this menu item to open the Edit Filters dialog. Using this dialog, you can create, delete and edit filters that will affect which items will be displayed by KOrganizer.

Choose this menu item to open the Manage Tags dialog. Using this dialog, you can create, delete and edit calendar item tags. Tags are used to organize your events and to-dos in related groups.