Calendars in VNCmail

The calendar of VNCmail is where an organization puts its time: appointments, shared team calendars, invitations and RSVPs, mutual availability, recurring meetings, rooms and resources, and the tasks that have a deadline.

It is part of the groupware bundle. A user reaches it from the VNCmail app, from the portal or as its own view, and works on the same calendars in all three. It speaks open standards — iCalendar for events, iMIP for invitations, CalDAV for sync — so calendars can be shared with other systems and a later migration does not require starting over.

What it delivers

One calendar for the organization, not one per tool. Personal, team and resource calendars sit side by side, coloured per viewer.
Scheduling that respects other people’s time. Mutual free/busy and invitations with RSVP make a meeting a decision among participants, not a broadcast.
Rooms and resources. A meeting room, a vehicle or a piece of equipment is booked with the same mechanics as a person’s time.
Recurring work done correctly. A series can be edited for one occurrence, this and following, or all — the distinction that most calendars get wrong.
Open standards. iCalendar import and export, CalDAV sync, iCal and webcal subscriptions.
Tasks beside the calendar. Due dates, priority and completion in the same view.

Main capabilities

Capability	What it gives you
Views	Month, week, day and agenda, with a mini-calendar and a task list.
Drag to schedule	Move, create and resize events on a 15-minute grid.
Event form	Participants, resources, tags, timezone, recurrence, reminders and a video-meeting link.
Create with AI	Describe the meeting in plain language and confirm the draft.
Shared calendars	CalDAV discovery across accounts, coloured per viewer.
Invitations and RSVP	Standard iMIP invitations on create and update, with an organizer and attendee panel.
RSVP from mail	A `.ics` attachment is recognised, so a participant answers without leaving the message.
Free/busy	See when participants can meet before inviting them.
Recurrence	Edit or delete one occurrence, this and following, or all.
Resources	Book rooms and equipment with conflict awareness.
Subscriptions	iCal and webcal feeds, editable, with batch import.
Birthday calendar	Generated from your contacts.
Import and export	iCalendar import with a preview and de-duplication on UID.
Tasks	Due dates, priority and completion next to the calendar.
Sync	Live sync across devices and clients.

Typical use

A team keeps a shared calendar for its department and private calendars for individuals; each person sees the others in their own colours.
An assistant checks free/busy across five participants and a meeting room before creating the invitation.
A weekly series is moved for one week only, without disturbing the rest of the series.
A project imports an existing iCalendar file, previews it, and deduplicates against what is already there.
A field team subscribes to a webcal feed of public holidays and to the company’s birthday calendar.

How it fits the suite

VNCmail carries the calendar in its app rail (the calendar is part of VNCmail).
VNCgroupware bundles it with mail, contacts and files.
VNCcontacts supplies participants and the birthday data.
VNCchat und VNCvideo provides the video meeting behind a meeting link.
VNCmcb uses the schedule to plan parallel meetings.
VNCtask provides tasks with due dates.
VNCproject adds project milestones and delivery dates.

Roles

Role	What they do
End user	Plan, invite, RSVP and subscribe.
Team lead	Manage shared team calendars and resource booking.
Administrator	Provision calendars, resources and policy.

VNCmail · VNCgroupware
VNCmcb — many parallel meetings from one schedule
Use the calendar in the user guide