Oracle Calendar Client 10.1.2 for Mac OS X

Introduction

Oracle Calendar Client 10.1.2 is program that will allow you to create and manage personal agendas, or calendars from your Mac desktop.

What You Will Need

In order to use Oracle Calendar 10.1.2, you will need to:

• Download the Oracle Calendar 10.1.2 Client, which is available on the Software Downloads page, under Mac OS X downloads. You will need to log in with your USC ID in order to download software.
• Have a USC faculty or staff email account and activate your account for use with Oracle Calendar. If you have not already done so, see the instructions on the Activating Your Account page.

Configuring Oracle Calendar 10.1.2

Once your account has been set up to use Oracle Calendar and you have installed Oracle Calendar 10.1.2 on your machine, you will need to configure it to connect to the Oracle Calendar system.

• Start the Oracle Calendar installer. You may accept the default setup settings.
• Once Oracle Calendar is installed you'll find it in:

  /Applications/CorporateTime

• Double-clicking the Oracle Calendar application will load the Sign-in window.

• Click Other to open the Connection Manager, and click New to create a new Oracle Calendar profile.
• For Connection Name field, enter a unique name for this Oracle Calendar profile.

• For the Server field, enter its-calendar.usc.edu.

• To have Oracle Calendar automatically fill the rest of the connection information, click Lookup. Once the rest of the information fills in, click OK to return to the Connection Manager.

• The new profile can be made the default by highlighting the profile in the list and clicking the Make Default button.

Connecting to Oracle Calendar

To connect to the Oracle Calendar system, select the appropriate profile in the Connect to dropdown menu.

The User name and Password are the same username and password used to access your email account.

On startup, Oracle Calendar may ask if you want to create an off-line agenda. Selecting Yes will cause Oracle Calendar to download your agenda for use when not connected to the Oracle Calendar calendaring system. More details about off-line agendas can be found in the section Working with Off-line Agendas.

Working with Off-line Agendas

Note: Use of off-line agendas can lead to synchronization issues if not used properly. Before you start to use the off-line agenda, you should read the Help section on Off-line Agendas in Oracle Calendar to make sure you understand how to use this feature.

An off-line agenda is automatically created when you first connect to the Oracle Calendar system. You can use the off-line agenda to create new agenda items, as if you were working in a normal agenda. When you have completed your work in your Off-line agenda and try to connect to the Oracle Calendar system, you may receive the following prompt:

Update Agenda will attempt to reconcile any differences between your online and offline agendas. If there are conflicts that Oracle Calendar cannot resolve, you may need to resolve them manually.

Download online Agenda will replace whatever is in your off-line agenda with the agenda stored in the Oracle Calendar system. This is recommended if you have just created an Off-line agenda and wish to download a local copy, or simply want to replace your off-line agenda in its entirety.

You can also choose to update your Off-line and online agendas by selecting Download To Local File or Upload From Local File from the File menu. Downloading will update your off-line agenda, while Uploading will update the agenda stored on Oracle Calendar.

Getting Additional Help

Oracle Calendar provides a comprehensive help system that can be accessed by selecting Contents from the Help menu.

If you need additional help, you can send an email to consult@usc.edu or contact the Customer Support Center at 213-740-5555.

Last updated: Monday, August 03, 2009, 14:18PM PDT