Calendar

Why use Calendar with TimeSlice?
Because publishing your Calendar files to the Internet is a very simple way to present to your clients a graphically recognizable form of your time. It increases client integration and trust.  It's suggested that you use a separate Calendar for each of your clients.  Publish the Calendars to secure webdav servers for clients to review at their leisure or for them to subscribe to (using Calendar or Mozilla).


Why use TimeSlice with Calendar?
Suppose you're on the road or at a client meeting, or otherwise working away from your Mac and can't input time into TimeSlice.  Normally when you return to your office you have to create a new time record quickly before you forget the details.  Using Calendar can make this task simpler.  Either while on the road or when you return to your office, you can usually create the items retro-actively quicker in Calendar. TimeSlice could then import this data from Calendar.

Data fields TimeSlice and Calendar exchange.

TimeSlice field Calendar field
start time & date
from
stop time & date to
comments*
notes*
category, client, project or task
event
*optional field



Sending TimeSlice data to Calendar:

Open the Control Panel if it's not already open, and click on the Calendar tab.

In the box titled “Send data Calendar to " enter a calendar name.  This can be a new name, or the name of an existing calendar.

Select a filter to limit which time records to send to 
Calendar.

In the bottom part of the window, check “Match Calendar Notes with TimeSlice comments” if you want the time record comments sent as  Calendar notes.

Select from the “Match Calendar events with” popup menu which job you want sent to  Calendar as  Calendar events.

Click the button titled “Send data to  Calendar.”

For every TimeSlice time record sent to  Calendar, Calendara new  event is created.  The 
Calendar events match the time record data displayed in the above table.



Sending Calendar data to
TimeSlice:

Open the Control Panel if it's not already open, and click on the 
Calendar tab.

In the box titled “Get Calendar events" select a Calendar calendar, and select a TimeSlice folder to receive the events.

Select a Calendar start and end date.

In the bottom part of the window, check “Match Calendar Notes with TimeSlice comments” if you want the Calendar notes sent as time record comments.

Select from the “Match Calendar events with” popup menu which job you want Calendar events received as.

Click the button titled “Get Calendar events.”

For every Calendar event sent to TimeSlice, a new TimeSlice
time record is created.  The time records match the Calendar data displayed in the above table.