Re: [Evolution] meetings and alarms

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:12 +0000, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
> dispite I've been using evolution for the last 9 years :) I have never
> before needed to use the Calendar... not Evolution's or any other.
> Now I've come to a situation where it will be very handy but I have no
> skills at all on this kind of SW (Calendar, Scheduling meetings and
> so...)
> I am receiving Meeting Invites from co-workers and I have just noticed
> they are automatically propagated to the Evolution Calender, wich is
> great !...
> Now... would it be possible for Evo to automatically add an alarm to
> those events in order to warn me 1 day before and/or 1 hour before ?
> this would be a great thing.

Answer: Sort of.

In Preferences -> Calendar and Tasks -> General -> Alerts

Check the "Show a reminder XX YY before every appointment".

Which isn't really the same as adding an alarm *to the appointment* but
can accomplish much the same thing.  [The whole VALARM thing is crazy,
but this option works well.]  But you can only get one reminder this
way.

> While at work I always have my Evolution open in the e-mail section and
> receiving an automatic e-mail would be just fine for me, as a warning,
> like "Hei, remember you have a meeting tomorow"...

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