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Wcal 2.8 documentation
Exploring old features
Duration of repeated events
You can now fix the duration of a repeated event. When you have selected the repeat frequency (every week, month, year), you can click on the
icon on the right to open a popup window. You can enter a starting and/or an ending date for the event. You can also select some date to be ignored by the repeated event. When you submit the dates, the icon will display additional information when you put the mouse over it.
Goto...
A new "Goto.." view has been added to access directly to a choosen day.Repeated special days
For special days that come the same date every year, you can replace the year by "*" character in the wcal.sdays file.For example :
'25/12/*' => "Christmas"
"webserver name" resource
The webserver name resource is used to have correct links in mails generated by checkalarm.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Synchronization of personal events with an alternate Wcal calendar
You can define a second Wcal calendar for a user to synchronize Palm events marked as personal.Graphical themes enhancement
You can now change color of text and links in themesFooter
The footer resource has been added to add misc string at the end of each frame (for example copyright).see Configure Wcal for more information.
"For your eyes only" events
On calendars with access control, users can add private events. Only the user who added the event and the "superuser" of the calendar can see the informations of the private event. The default priv resource has been added to control private events.see Configure Wcal for more information. In a .
Detailed week view
The detailed week resource allow to configure week view to look like day view. The frame width and frame height resources has been added to control frames size.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Week copy
User can now copy an entire week as he copy an event. This is useful for example for school calendars. The week copy resource has been added to disable week copy.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Events until week...
A new view has been added to display events until the current week just like the view that displays events since the current week.Search events
A new search view has been added to search for strings in events just like a search engine.Synchronization with multiple sources
Wcal calendars can now be synchronized with multiple sources. For example, you can have a calendar that is synchronized with several Palm Pilot.Automatic refresh in MWD mode
When you use Wcal in Multiple Windows Display mode, there's an automatic refresh of each window after event modification.Graphical themes
The theme resource has been added to change the graphical look of Wcal.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Groups of users
A new group section has been added to build a tree of calendars. A group can contain calendars and subgroups.see Creating calendars for more information.
Event locking
On calendars with access control, users can lock events. Only the user who locked the event and the "superuser" of the calendar can modify or delete the locked event. The default lock and superuser resources has been added to control event locking.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Event overlap
The overlap resource has been added to disable event overlap. This is useful for reservation calendars.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Year repeated events
You can now add year repeated events in Wcal. This is useful combined with alarm to remember birthdays.Customizing mail command
The mail command resource has been added to redefine the command used by checkalarm.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Restrict calendar purge
The disable purge resource has been added for "security" reason.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Changing event precision
The event precision and event length resources has been added to manage event precision in the wcal.conf file.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Changing time interval
The first hour and last hour resources has been added to manage the number of hours displayed in the day view.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Changing time precision
The show day time and day precision resources has been added to manage the time precision in the day view.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Disabling fusion
The disable fusion resource allows to mask fusion buttons in Wcal.see Configure Wcal for more information.
Disabling todos
By default, events with no time are created with the persistent flag selected. The default todo resource allows to unselect by default the flag.see Configure Wcal for more information.
The return of the "top left corner"
The top left corner resource has been reintroduced in Wcal 2.3. It allows to add misc HTML code that will be displayed at the top left corner of the week, month and year views. HTML code can be static or generated by a script.P*Wcal integration
The version 2.2 is the first version of Wcal that can be used with the P*Wcal module to synchronize Wcal calendars with Palm PilotTM. After installing and starting P*Wcal and restart Wcal, you will see a P*Wcal link in the main page of Wcal. Synchronized calendars have an extra icon
to access to the last synchronization information.
Note: Of course, P*Wcal is absolutly not necessary to make Wcal 2.2 run.
Priority in todo events
Todo events can have a priority (1 to 5) according to the PalmTM todos. Todos are sorted by ascending priority in the Todo view.Allow alarm when an event begins
Events can now have an alarm of 0 minute.Customizable refresh delay
see Configure Wcal for more information.Bug fixes
Quotes are coded to be displayed correctly in alt text of icons.alt text is also put in the title attribute to be displayed correctly in some borwsers like Mozilla.
Fully operational month and year view (MWD)
The version 2.1 of Wcal introduce the concept of Multiple Windows Display (MWD). It's an alternate way to use the calendar. You can keep on using the traditional multiframe windows (week/day/event) but you can also use a new style of browsing that uses popup windows.From the Wcal main page you have access to a month and a year view by clicking on the current month or year of a calendar. The month view display all days of the month with corresponding events. You can add, modify ou delete events by clicking on the different links of the view. Each link opens a pop window (Javascript must be enable) to display frame information. You have a pop window for the week, the day, the event... Pop windows have a different background. They can be iconify separately and will be poped-up when necessary.
The year view has the same structure as the month view.
A special button 
at the top-left of windows allow you to reload calendar data in the MWD mode.
Todo events
A special type of events has been added in Wcal 2.1. The flag "persistent" in the event editor allows you to precise that this event must stay in the todo list until it is disabled. Todo events can be seen as PostItTM notes and are marked
in the calendars.
The todo list has replaced the default year view in the "Other views" frame. The year view has been relooked with different backgrounds for weeks with ou without events. It is always accessible from the todo list.
Mails on event addition or modification
A confirmation or information mail can be sent each time a user makes a change on an event. See the option field in the alarm section of the event editor.There is no difference between confirmation or information mail. The only difference is in the body and title of the mail. For example, confirmation mail can be set when you create a new meeting events. Information mail is used when you don't necessarily need an answer to your mail.
Events that have a mail attached are marked 
or in the calendars.
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