New Features

Planner View for Multiple Calendars
This provides a matrix view of multiple calendars. Hours of the day horizontally across the top and the list of calendars vertically along the side. Your calendars can represent any resource for allocation. The resources could be anything from conference rooms, lab equipment, office appointment times, racquetball courts etc. The planner view allows you to quickly determine and assign available time slots. For additional information and online demo see: Book Your Tennis Court!

International Language Support
iCal has been redesigned to support languages other than English. Custom language files can be easily created. At this time there is support for Danish, German and Dutch in addition to English. We will be adding more languages which will be made available for download.

Define Calendar View Range
A valid starting and ending date range can be defined for the calendar. This confines the view range to only the months that may be valid for your project, calendar school year, performances etc.

System Auditing and IP Restriction
Logging can be enabled to trace and report all calendar activity. The IP address of user requests along with other information is reported. Also there is the ability to restrict iCal access to specified IP addresses.

Calendar Groups Selectable from Popup
Previous releases of iCal allowed you to create autonomous sets of calendars, but there was no easy navigation to independent groups. You can now do this :-)

Administration Menus Reorganized
The Administration Menus have been redesigned to provide a more consistent look and feel.

Calendar Groups
Each Calendar can be assigned to a Calendar Group. Calendar Groups are used to limit which Calendars can be included and displayed in the Select Calendar list. E.g. This allows you to have a set of calendars for separate company departments, for conference rooms or in any way you might choose to group them.

Event Categories
Each Event can be assigned to a Category. Each Category can have default color settings. Categories can be defined System-wide, or just for a particular Calendar. You can filter your view of a calendar to show only those events of a specific category.

Automatic Link and Email Address Detection
All web links and email addresses are automatically detected and made 'clickable' in Event and Popup text.

Microsoft Outlook Import/Export
You can import Events from Microsoft Outlook CSV files. You can also export iCal events to a CSV file suitable for importing into Outlook.

Included Events can be Private or Restricted
Events can be marked as private so they will not appear when the calendar is included into another calendar.

Copy Event
In addition to editing an existing event, you can now edit and copy it in one step.

Week Numbers
You can choose to display week numbers.

Remove Weekend Days
The weekend days can be removed from the calendar display.

Complete Font Face and Size Selection
You can specify font faces and sizes for all aspects of the calendar. This will help to blend your calendars into the look and feel of your web site.

More Powerful Dynamic Calendar Include
When a master calendar includes data from a large number of calendars, there can be confusion as to the source of the included calendar. New features provide several methods to easily identify te source calendar.

Navigation Menu Alignment
Now all navigation menus can now be placed at the the top or bottom of the calendar.

Bug Fixes
A couple of little bugs were fixed. I hate those pesky things.

Email Notification Features
This is an add on option that allows email to be sent directly from your calendars. Though iCal can run on Windws 95/98/NT, the email feature requires NT (windows 2000). Here are the capabilities wrapped around this email option.

• Auditing Calendar Activity This allows the administrator of a calendar to be notified when events are added, update or deleted. This is very helpful for calendars that are wide open for people to add and modify events.
• Notifying Others You can email others of events you add or update on the calendar. This is commonly used to notify people that you have scheduled an event. The perfect example is the status meeting (that no one wants to attend).
• Reminder Messages Email reminders can be sent from 15 minutes to two weeks in advance of an event. Two separate times can be assigned for each event. To get people to attend the status meeting you can have them emailed the day before and 15 minutes prior to the meeting.

Exporting Calendar Data
iCal Now allows you to export you calendar event information to ASCII tab delimited or CSV files.

Deleting Calendars
A browser interface allows you to delete calendars. Prior to 3.0 this could only be done from the file system. (This feature should have been added a long time ago!)

Calendar Create Options
When you create a new calendar you can now specify to have the color scheme and global settings to be identical to an existing calendar. This is helpful to easily maintain a color scheme for all of your calendars.

Condensed List View
This new view of your calendar data will only display the list of days that contain events.

Powerful Color Selections
iCal has always had a nice popup color selection palette. The only problem was that you had to choose from our palette. Colors can now be additionally entered with Hex color values or using html color names e.g. mediumturquoise

Calendar Hiding
The Professional Edition of iCal allows you to create multiple calendars. A link on each calendar pops up a list of all the calendars. Now you can choose to hide your calendar so it will not appear in this list.

.... And More
There are a number of other small features, but who can remember everything!

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