The Oracle Calendar
can be accessed in your office, on your home
computer and on a laptop even when you’re
on-the-road and not connected to the Cal Poly
computers.
When you’re at home or on-the-road,
you can also use the Calendar by connecting
to the Internet and running the Calendar
Software
When you’re away from your office and
home computers and you’re using a laptop
on-the-road you can run the Calendar in a disconnected
state, WITHOUT connecting to the Internet.
To run the Calendar disconnected, or off-line,
you must prepare to do so by downloading
calendar entries to your local hard disk
BEFORE running the software disconnected.
With Oracle Calender, there are no distinctions
in the software whether you’re at a
workstation at Cal Poly or a remote location.
However, the Calendar allows you to work connected
to the server (on-line) or not connected
to the server (off-line). When you’re
working off-line, you cannot view other users’ agendas
unless you’ve previously downloaded
them to your hard disk while you were connected
to the server. Before you can use your agenda
off-line, you must setup your off-line agenda
while connected to the server.
Below is a list of features when using Oracle Calendar
off-line.
| Accessing
Oracle Calendar |
Using
Oracle Calendar Off-line
(not connected
to the server) |
| -
overview |
Once your on-line agenda
has been downloaded to your off-line
agenda, calendar entries can be created,
modified and deleted without a
connection to the Cal Poly network or
the Calendar server. However, the off-line
agenda must be uploaded to your
on-line agenda for the entries to be
in effect. |
| -
modem speed |
The modem speed will only
be a factor in downloading and uploading
your agenda.
If you need to download/upload several
agendas, this process takes a long
time. |
| -
phone charges |
Since you have the ability
to work with your agenda while not connected
to the Calendar server, phone charges
will be reduced. |
| Software
Features |
|
| -
viewing other agendas |
To views the agendas of
other users/resources, the agendas must
be downloaded in order to be available
to you while working off-line.
If you intend to schedule meetings
off-line, the agendas of all the
attendees and any resources need
to be downloaded.
To designate which agendas you would
like downloaded, the People/Resources
tab in the Off-line Preferences (Options,
Off-line...) dialog box should be specified. |
| -
agenda reconciliation |
Reconciliation is the
process of synchronizing your off-line
agenda with your on-line agenda. Reconciliation
occurs when you’ve been working
off-line and then choose to work on-line.
You will need to configure your preferred reconciliation
settings in the Reconciliation tab of Off-line
Preferences (Options -> Off-line...). |
| -
off-line and on-line agenda modifications
to the same entry |
During the reconciliation
process, you can choose whether to display
the Host Reconciliation dialog box when:
1. An off-line entry is deleted
but the host entry is unmodified,
or
2. An off-line entry is modified
and the host entry is modified. |
| -
agenda conflicts during reconciliation |
If you have chosen to check for
conflicts on upload, the Conflicts Detected
dialog box will appear each time the
two agendas do not correspond concerning
an entry. Information will be displayed
about the conflict and let you decide
what should be done about it.
If you have chosen to ignore conflicts
on upload — the Agenda will
not prompt you about any such conflicts. |
| -
designate function |
The designate function
can be used but the owner’s agenda
must be downloaded to work off-line.
To designate which agendas you would
like downloaded, the People/Resources
tab in the Off-line Preferences (Options
-> Off-line...) dialog box should
be specified. |
| -
working off-line |
To work off-line, you
will need to configure your off-line
settings using Options -> Off-line...
from the main menu. To designate
your download preferences, see the Download
tab in the Off-line Preferences dialog
box. Modifications to your off-line options
needs to be done when you’re on-line.
To work off-line, you will need to:
1. Download to local file... (File menu)
2. Work Off-line... (File menu) |
| -
working on-line |
To work on-line after
working off-line, you’ll need to
choose
1. Work On-line... (File menu)
Oracle Calendar will upload your calendar
dependent on the settings you have
specified in the Options, Off-line...
configuration. |
