Administering Oracle Calendar Holiday Accounts


Purpose
This tutorial shows you how to administer Oracle Calendar holidays 
  by managing users holiday administrative rights. It also shows you how to create, 
  modify, and delete a holiday in Oracle Calendar.
Time to Complete
 
Approximately 1 hour
Topics
This tutorial covers the following topics:

  

    
 
      

      
Overview
    
    
 
      

      
Scenario
    
    
 
      

      
Prerequisites
    
    
 
      

      
    
Assigning 
      Holiday Administration Rights to a User
    
    
 
      

      
    
 
      
Creating a Holiday in Oracle Calendar

        
    
    
    
 
      

      
    
Modifying 
      a Holiday in Oracle Calendar
    
    
 
      

      
    
Deleting 
      a Holiday in Oracle Calendar

      
    
    
 
      

      
Summary
    
    
 
      

      
Related information
    
  

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Overview
The Calendar Administrator is an online server management 
  tool that allows Administrators to manage holidays, groups, user accounts, resources, 
  and event calendars in the calendar server database.
Holidays are special events that appear in the calendars of 
  all users and event calendars in a node. Holidays can be created one-by-one 
  by any user with the proper administrative rights, through the Oracle Calendar 
  Administrator, or one of the Oracle Calendar desktop clients.
The focus of this tutorial is to illustrate how manage holidays 
  in Oracle Calendar.
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Scenario
Max Hogan, the Business Administrator, is responsible 
  to manage the holidays in Oracle Calendar. He must create, modify, and delete 
  holidays; in addition to assigning holiday administration rights to users.

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Prerequisites 
Before starting this tutorial, you should: 

  
 
  
 
    
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Have access to or have installed Oracle Collaboration 
        Suite 10g.
    
  
  
 
    
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Have access to or have configured Oracle Collaboration 
        Suite 10g.
    
  
  
 
    
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Have access to or create holidays in Oracle Calendar 
        for Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g.
    
  
  
 

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Assigning Holiday Administration 
  Rights to a User

  
 The SYSOP, by default, has holiday management rights. 
  As an Administrator, you can also assign holiday administration rights to a 
  regular Calendar user either through the Calendar Administrator or the command 
  line.
As the Business Administrator, Max has to assign holiday 
administration rights to the users. He uses the following steps to perform this 
task. 
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To assign holiday administration rights to a user, perform 
  the following steps:

  
 
    
 
      
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Open a new browser window and enter the following URL:
      
http://<OCS 
        host>:7778/ocad-bin/ocad.cgi?object=nodeadm
      
In the Single Sign-On page, log 
        on with your <username> and <password> and then click Sign 
        In.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
 
      
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In the Log In page in Calendar, log on with your 
        <user name> and <password> and then click SSO.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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In the Welcome page of the Calendar Administrator tool, click the Calendar 
        Management tab.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
  
 
    
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Search for the user. In the for field, enter the name of the user 
        to whom you want to assign holiday administration rights and then click 
        Go.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the Update (pencil) icon next to the username to 
        whom you want to assign holiday administration rights.

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the Administrative Rights link.

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Select Manage Holidays in the Node Management section and then 
        click Apply.

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click Go to assign the holiday administration rights and to return 
        to the Users page. Log out and close the Browser window.

      
      

      
 
      
  
  
 

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Creating a Holiday in Oracle Calendar

    

In this topic, you create a holiday in Oracle Calendar. Max has 
to create holidays in Oracle Calendar. He uses the following steps to perform 
this task. 
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 To create a holiday in Oracle Calendar, perform 
  the following steps:
 
  

    
 
      
 
        
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Open a new browser window and enter the following 
          URL:
        
http://<OCS 
          host>:7778/ocad-bin/ocad.cgi?object=nodeadm
        
In the Single Sign-On page, log 
          on with your <username> and <password> and then click Sign 
          In.
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
 
        
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In the Log In page in Calendar, log on with your 
          <user name> and <password> and then click SSO.
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
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In the Welcome page of the Calendar Administrator tool, click the Server 
          Administration tab.
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
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Click the Manage Holiday icon (last on the right) associated 
          with your Calendar node in the Nodes tabbed page.

        
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
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Click the Create Holiday (candle) icon.

        
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
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Enter details in the Title and Start Time fields and 
          then click Apply.

        
        

        
 
      
    
    
 
      
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Click Go to display the holiday as a part of the month view. 
          Log out and close the Browser window.

          

        
        

        
 
        
    
  

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Modifying a Holiday 
    in Oracle Calendar

  
In this topic, you edit a holiday that 
  was created in Oracle Calendar. Max has to modify the holidays in Oracle Calendar. 
  He uses the following steps to perform this task. 


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 To edit holiday details, perform the following steps:


  
 
    
 
      
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Open a new browser window and enter the following URL:
      
http://<OCS 
        host>:7778/ocad-bin/ocad.cgi?object=nodeadm
      
In the Single Sign-On page, log 
        on with your <username> and <password> and then click Sign 
        In.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
 
      
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In the Log In page in Calendar, log on with your 
        <user name> and <password> and then click SSO.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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In the Welcome page of the Calendar Administrator tool, click the Server 
        Administration tab.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the Manage Holiday icon (last on the right) associated with 
        your Calendar node in the Nodes tabbed page.

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the link for the holiday you want to edit. 

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Edit the Title and/or Start time details as required and 
        then click Apply.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click Go to display the holiday as a part of the month view. Log 
        out and close the Browser window.

      
      

      
 
    
  

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Deleting a Holiday 
    in Oracle Calendar

In this topic, you delete a holiday that 
  was created in Oracle Calendar. Max has to delete holidays in Oracle Calendar. 
  He uses the following steps to perform this task.
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 To delete a holiday, perform the following steps:


  
 
    
 
      
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Open a new browser window and enter the following URL:
      
http://<OCS 
        host>:7778/ocad-bin/ocad.cgi?object=nodeadm
      
In the Single Sign-On page, log 
        on with your <username> and <password> and then click Sign 
        In.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
 
      
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In the Log In page in Calendar, log on with your 
        <user name> and <password> and then click SSO.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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In the Welcome page of the Calendar Administrator tool, click the Server 
        Administration tab.
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the Manage Holiday icon (last on the right) associated with 
        your Calendar node in the Nodes tabbed page.

      
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click the Delete (trash) icon next to the holiday you want 
        to delete. 
      

      
 
    
  
  
 
    
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Click Go. Log out and close the Browser window.
      

      
 
      
  

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to:

  
 
    

    
 Assign holiday administration 
      rights to a user

      
  
  
 
    

    
Create a holiday in Oracle Calendar

    
  
  
 
    

    
Modify a holiday in Oracle Calendar
  
  

    

    
Delete a holiday in Oracle Calendar

    
  
  
 
 

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Related Information
To learn more about Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g 
  you can refer to:

  
 
    

    
 Additional OBEs 
      on the OTN Web site.
  
  
 
    

    
Demonstration material (viewlets 
      ) 
  
  

  

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