Calendar Item

ContactsLaw supports several different types of items (or events) that may appear on a calendar:

• Appointments (with instructions),
• Availability entries; or
• Resource reservations

Properties

Regardless of type, all calendar items have the following properties:

• Description of the event
• Start and end times (including all-day and recurring events)
• Organiser member
• Notes (in Markdown format)
• Optional matter

Appointments

Appointments schedule work and include instructions to perform particular activities in ContactsLaw, such as recording time or creating a matter.

Starting an appointment commences the associated activity.

Availability

Availability entries have no associated instruction and are simply used to block out time as free or busy.

Reservations

Members can reserve non-venue resources (such as parking bays, shared computers, etc), helping to avoid collisions and overbookings.

Attendees

The organiser of an appointment or availability entry can invite attendees in the form of other members or external contacts.

Attendees may be required or optional, and responses are recorded when an attendee accepts or declines their invitation.

Venues

Appointments can be assigned to a particular venue. Venues may be either:

• A resource whose occupancy (capacity) can be taken into account when scheduling; or
• Free-form text describing an address or other location (for which collision checking is not performed).