Creating Community Calendars

This topic discusses creating, accessing community calendars and assigning community calendar participants and privileges.

Use the Calendar Properties page (EPPCA_CAL_DETAIL) to maintain the properties for the calendar.

Navigation:

  • Click the Add Calendar button on the My Community Calendars page.

  • Click a Properties link on the My Community Calendars page.

Page Name

Definition Name

Usage

My Community Calendars Page

EPPCA_BROWSE

View and manage community calendars.

Calendar Properties Page

EPPCA_CAL_DETAIL

Maintain the properties for the calendar.

Calendar Security Page

EPPCA_CAL_MEM

Manage calendar members and privileges.

Use the My Community Calendars page (EPPCA_BROWSE) to view and manage community calendars.

Navigation:

My Content, My Community Calendars

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the My Community Calendars page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 My Community Calendars page

Use the My Community Calendars page to browse through the list of calendars in the current portal that you are a member of and have permission to view. If you have permission to create a calendar, the Add Calendar button appears on the page.

Field or Control

Description

Add Calendar

Click to create a new calendar.

Note: The Add Calendar button only appears for those users who have permission to create a calendar.

Display Active Calendars or Display Inactive Calendars

If you have created calendars that have been set to a status of inactive, the system displays a drop-down list box on the page the enables you to display either active calendars or all inactive calendars that you have created.

Search

Click to access the Search Community Calendars page on which you can search for calendar events.

Title

Click the calendar title to access the calendar.

Properties

Click to view the Calendar Properties page on which you can modify calendar properties.

Note: The Properties link appears only for administrators of the calendar.

Delete

Click to delete the calendar.

Note: The Delete button appears only for administrators of the calendar.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Calendar Properties page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 Calendar Properties page

Enter a name for the calendar in the Title field as well as descriptive information about the calendar.

Field or Control

Description

Title

Enter the name of the calendar. The text you enter in this field becomes the title of the calendar.

Description

Enter a description for the calendar.

Active

Select this option to make the calendar active and have the calendar appear in the portal or site. If this option is not selected, the calendar is not be available to users.

Holiday

Select this option to specify this calendar as a holiday calendar. If this option is not selected, this calendar is considered a regular calendar.

Work Week

Select the days of the work week for this calendar to override the work week defined at the system level on the Installation Options page.

See Defining Installation Options.

Publish as Pagelet

Displays the List Properties - Publish Pagelet Wizard Definition page on which you can publish the calendar pagelet to the homepage.

Use the Calendar Security page (EPPCA_CAL_MEM) to manage calendar members and privileges.

Navigation:

Select Calendar Security on the Calendar Properties page.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Calendar Security page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

 Calendar Security page

Use the Calendar Security page to assign calendar members and privileges.

Field or Control

Description

Member Type

Select the type of participant you want to add to the calendar:

  • Role — Select to be able to select a role in the Member Name field. Available group names are derived from PeopleSoft roles defined in the Roles component.

    See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Security Administration, “Setting Up Roles.”

  • User — Select to be able to select a user in the Member Name field. Available users are derived from PeopleSoft users defined in the User Profiles component.

    See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Security Administration, “Administering User Profiles.”

Member Name

Select the role or user ID.

Privilege Set ID

Select a privilege level you want to assign to the member:

Administrator. Administrators can add, edit, or delete calendar events. In addition, they can add and delete calendar members.

Contributor. Contributors can add or edit calendar events. They can delete their own calendar events, but not those belonging to others.

Viewer. Viewers have read-only access to the calendar and calendar events.

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Click to view additional information about the actions that the privilege set enables the member to use.

Publish as Pagelet

Displays the List Properties - Publish Pagelet Wizard Definition page on which you can publish the calendar pagelet to the homepage.