The Calendar Tool provides functionality to schedule appointments, meetings, events, and tasks. Scheduled items can be viewed in a number of display formats, from an individual day to a full year. Calendar operations can be performed by individual users on their personal calendars, as well as by administrative users on multiple calendars. Administrative users can schedule meetings for user groups and perform general administrative operations for managing databases and setting global defaults.

Following an overview of the Calendar user interface, details of system use are presented in the following scenarios:

• an individual user scheduling an appointment
• an individual user viewing calendars in a variety of ways
• an individual user scheduling other types of items
• a group leader scheduling meetings with several attendees
• a system administrator updating the calendar databases
• details of file-related commands
• details of edit commands
• help commands
• data entry details
• error conditions

Following the usage scenarios is a section that summarizes graphical user interface details relevant to implementations in specific operating environments.