Basic Database with Calendar Views

[PhilFairlane]

Howzit!


The users at this place i work at are crap at letting each other know what is going on....


The users didn't want their personal calendars filling up with events so it was decided that a basic database with just calendar views should do the trick.

Is it possible to remove the views from the mail template to create a basic database with Calendar Views or is there another product we could look at.

I doubt I would be able to create a user in the address book and use that calendar because we are a small branch, head office is strict and i am new

Any help or ideas would be great.

Thanks


Phil

 

[pmonett]

I would strongly advise against modifying the mail template by removing anything. It is already hazardous to add things that are not extremely basic, but to remove such a central element as the Calendar is certain to cause a great number of problems in the mail as well as on the server.
I would simply design a new database and put a Calendar view in it, with a Meeting document.
You could eventually just create a new database from the mail template, and remove everything that has nothing to do with calendar stuff. You'll need to be careful with the script libraries, better to keep them all. That way you can benefit from the nifty things like creating an entry by just double-clicking on the day.
A word of warning : you will most probably be called on to create views by user or other such modifications. Indeed, once people use it and start seeing that everyones meeting items are in the same view, you will undoubtedly get annoyed comments about having to "scroll all the way down to the bottom" and other such nonsense. The way I see it, your users will almost certainly want THEIR calendar view in the database, in addition to the common calendar.
But maybe I'm just jaded. After nine years in the Notes business, I have never once seen a common calendar project work correctly, and I'm not talking about the design of the database.

Pascal.