Calendar actions
The action menu of an appointment contains the actions you may use to handle your appointments. The following actions are specific actions for appointments.
• exports the appointment data in a format understood by other calendar tools, e.g., Outlook and StarOffice. An according file is sent to your Web browser for import of the appointment by such calendar tools. You may also export all appointments of a calendar using in the top menu.
•
Appointment data in the ‘iCalendar’ format (MIME type
text/calendar, Windows file extension *.ics) can also be imported
to a BSCW calendar using
in the top menu. Alternatively, you can
upload one or several .ics files via drag & drop using the drag & drop uploader.
Note: If you are working on a Windows platform locally, you can synchronize all appointments of a BSCW calendar with the appointments in an Outlook calendar. See 9.7 Outlook synchronization for details.
• lets you participate in the virtual meeting foreseen for this appointment (available if online tools have been specified for this appointment; see 7.1.4 Participating in a virtual meeting).
• confirms your participation in the appointment (action available when you are invited as participant and have not yet confirmed).
• declines your participation in the appointment (action available when you are invited as participant and have not yet declined).
• lets you edit the diverse properties of an appointment.
•
lets you attach a document or a URL to an appointment. Attachments are
indicated in the day and month view by a 
icon if
the according option has been activated via
.
Click on this icon to access the attachments folder. Attachments to
appointments are handled like attachments
to notes.
• adds an appointment of a group calendar to your personal calendar.
The rest of the actions in the appointment action menu consists of generic actions showing the same behaviour for appointments as they do for other objects.