Rotary Rules! Suggestion: Print this tutorial for use while editing your club calendar.

HOW TO EDIT CLUB CALENDARS

Club Calendars are offered compliments of www.RotaryCoCo.org to the Rotary Clubs of Greater Contra Costa County.

The Club "user editable" Calendar application was the results of a two-year study (1997/98) which indicated that Rotarians needed tools whereby they could freely and directly keep each other informed. The Calendar proved its worth during the test period 1999/2000.

For the Calendar to be effective at a Club level, two or more members of the Club must dedicate interest in keeping their Club's Calendar up to date. Early adoptors have had excellent results with regular calendar inputs from the president, secretary, speaker chair, and all directors. Knowing their Calendar is that Clubs #1 information source, Club members access their Clubs Calendar almost daily.

STEP ONE

You will need your clubs calendar exit password. Contact Rick Hanson, at (925) 932-8956 or email to zoomie@zoomie.com.

THE BASIC PROCEDURE

Click on the "Edit This Month's Data" button next to a given month. You will be placed in an editor with all of that months data available to edit, along with some blanks for new entries.

Ignore the password box. This is an "exit" password, meaning that anyone can edit, add or delete calendar entries but will not be able to Save Changes without the "exit" password.

TIP You may also use the "Add New Events to the Calendar" button at the bottom of the page to enter new events.

TIP You may enter any event date in any Start Date box. Upon exit, that date will be properly sorted into the database.

TIP If an event is only one day, you do not need to include a Stop Date and Time.

TIP The earliest time is 12:01am. The latest time is 11:59pm.

Go ahead and edit or add events. The important fields are Event, Start Date, and Start Time.

TIP Refer to data images for specific formats: mm/dd/yy means that each of the three numbers making up a date are two-place ... 02/06/01 not 2/6/01.

When you are finished, go to the top of the page, enter your clubs "exit" password and click the "Save Changes" button.

If you did it correctly, you will be placed back into the calendar and your changes will be in the list. If an error occurs, read the error, then use your back button to go back, find the error, and correct the error. Then, once again, go to the top of the page, enter the exit password and click the "Save Changes" button.

Always check your work. Details count.

ADVANCED

ADDING EMAIL LINKS...

Sometimes you want to add a link to an email address so people can contact the person referred to in the details. This is easy. Learn from these examples.

email address twittles@msnbc.net
any words Bob Beergutt
tag code <a href="mailto:put email address here">put any words here</a>
completed tag <a href="mailto:twittles@msnbc.net>Bob Beergutt</a>
result Bob Beergutt

Examples: (code | working example)
<a href="mailto:zoomie@zoomie.com">Weirdo</a> | Weirdo
<a href="mailto:chuck@grahamphoto.com">Chuck</a> | Chuck
<a href="mailto:housematch@wwc.com">Parnelli</a> | Parnelli

ADDING WEB SITE AND FILE LINKS...

Adding a link to a web site, or any file on the internet is just as simple as adding a link to an email address. All you have to know is the path to the file and the name and extension of the file.

Examples (code | working example):
<a href="www_rotary_org/index.html">Rotary International</a> | Rotary International
<a href="www_the-dock_com/bookmark/z00.jpg">Cool!</a> | Cool!
<a href="www_grahamphoto_com/index.html">Picture this!</a> | Picture this!
<a href="www_zoomie_com/index.html">Zoomie's Workshop</a> | Zoomie's Workshop