The Appointment Calendar (BC-SRV-GBT) (SAP Library - The Appointment Calendar (BC-SRV-GBT))

The Appointment Calendar (BC-SRV-GBT)

Purpose

The appointment calendar allows you to organize your appointments and to find out when other employees have appointments. The appointments are managed centrally and can be taken into consideration when appointments are planned in your enterprise.

Integration

The appointment calendar is included in various SAP applications, for example, the processing of sales orders or working with activities in Customer Relationship Management. The appointment calendar is also available as an independent application. The maintenance of your appointments is independent of the application you are in. This means that appointments that you created for sales orders are also displayed in your activities view and vice versa.

Features

The appointment calendar supports you in your appointment planning with the following functions:

You can switch between a daily, weekly or monthly view when displaying your appointments.
You can work with individual appointments, group appointments and periodic appointments. You can create a detailed description for each appointment.
A search function supports you when searching for times without appointments for one or more users.
Appointments can block a time period or just reserve it (all-day event).
All employees involved in a group appointment are notified automatically when the appointment is created and changed.
A substitute concept enables each user to assign authorizations for the display and maintenance of their appointments to other employees.
Various time zone functions support you when you are planning appointments in different time zones.

All important functions can be called by clicking once or twice on the object concerned (for example, day, week, month or appointment). For further information, see Working with the Appointment Calendar.

It is possible to maintain the SAP appointment calendar from other user interfaces, for example, a Web browser or Microsoft Outlook. See Appointment Calendar in the Internet and Calendar Integration.

An interface is available for integrated appointment management. Developers who integrate the appointment calendar into their application can find further information under Business Appointment Services.