Calendar Settings

How to open the Calendar settings:

Click the Settings icon in the menu bar. Click on All settings.

You can also click on Settings in the App Launcher.

The Settings window opens.
Click on Calendar in the left pane.

The settings can be found in the following sections:

Time scale. Specifies the interval for dividing the time grid in the Day, Work week, and Week calendar views.

Working time.
- Start. Defines the start of working hours.
- End. Defines the end of working hours.
Work week.
- First day. Defines the beginning of a work week.
- Length. Defines the number of days of a work week.
See Day, Work week, Week, Month or Year calendar view.

Defines default values for reminders when creating new appointments.

To change a setting, click on the current setting. Change the current reminder in the Edit reminders window. You can add additional reminders.

Allows you to add additional time zones that can be displayed in the calendar. See Managing favourite time zones

Calendar.
- Show birthday calendar. Defines whether a birthday calendar is displayed in the folder view.
- Show declined appointments. Defines whether appointments that you declined are displayed. See Responding to Appointment Invitations
- Subscribe to shared calendars. See Subscribing to public and shared calendars

Appointments.
- Always mark “Participants can edit appointments” when creating or editing appointments. Defines whether participants by default get the permission to edit an appointment.
- Automatically mark all day appointments as “free” when creating or editing appointments. Defines whether all day appointments are displayed as free by default.
- use first category colour for appointments. Defines whether appointments to which you have assigned a category are displayed in the colour of that category. When assigning multiple categories to an appointment, the colour of the initially assigned category will be used. See Using Categories
Automatically apply appointment changes received via email to your calendar. Defines in which cases appointment invitations by external contacts will be automatically added to your calendar.
- Never. The appointment change will not be applied automatically. The email invitation includes a button for adding the appointment to your calendar.
- Only from known senders. The appointment change will be applied automatically if the appointment change comes from a sender who is entered as appointment participant or is entered as a contact in one of your address books.
- Always. The appointment change will always be automatically added to your calendar.
Scheduling. Defines which users can view your appointments in the scheduling view. Also see Using the scheduling view

User interface: