8.5 Scheduling Appointments with Free/Busy

When you schedule a meeting with your calendar on GroupWise, you can check when other local GroupWise users are busy according to their GroupWise calendars.

Using the Free/Busy feature

Reminders for appointments in your GroupWise calendar do not work until you have run Evolution at least once after logging in. This is different from locally stored reminders, which work from the moment you log in, regardless of whether you have run Evolution in the session.

  1. Click New > Meeting.

  2. Add attendees, either by entering their e-mail addresses into the list, or by clicking the Invite Others button.

  3. Click Options, then click Update Free/Busy to check participant schedules and, if possible, update the meeting in all participants' calendars.

If meeting attendees are not available during the times you have scheduled a meeting, you can “nudge” the meeting forward or backward to the nearest available time. To do so, just click the arrows to the left or right of the Autopick button. The Autopick tool moves the meeting to the nearest time during which all attendees are available. If you aren't satisfied with those results, you can drag the edges of the meeting time to the hours that you want to select.