Your calendar can have any name you require, for example if you are creating a calendar for your Marketing department, you might call it 'Marketing Calendar', IT: 'IT Calendar', etc.

The 'Name' used in the Mail-In database document can be assigned as the Calendar Profile 'owner' in the database, hence Meeting Invitations, etc, that are created by the calendar will come from this 'Name', ie: 'The Group Calendar' mentioned earlier.

It enables the Domino Server to understand that your Shared Calendar has it's own Internal and External (if required) address for the purposes of C&S routing,.

The Mail-In Database document is required for two reasons: Create a Mail-In Database document to control the Database (calendar) profile:

Add users through the Calendar Profile 'Access and Delegation' who will be able to Read/Edit the Calendar Content.

Change the 'Launch' option for the database,.

Change the 'Owner' of the Database in the Profile,.

Create a Mail-In Database document to control the Database (calendar) profile,.

In our demonstration below, the calendar will simply have the title ' The Group Calendar'. This functionality isn't difficult to create (of course! it's Notes!), but I couldn't find the steps for it anywhere for the customers to follow, hence.

In a future blog, I'll share how to add this newly created calendar to anyone's IBM Traveler/Verse Mobile calendar who needs to see the calendar when they're mobile. The other requirement was to make this Calendar visible when accessed by users out of the office on their mobile device. In other words, a 'Generic' Calendar that doesn't belong to a specific person, and can be managed by any number of people. The main requirement is a calendar which can have multiple people assigned to managing the Calendar content, in addition to this Calendar having full Calendaring and Scheduling ( C&S) functionality for things like sending meeting invitations to Internal or External recipients, receiving replies, sending update notifications, reschedules, repeats, etc. Shared or Group Calendars in IBM Notes Mat Newman J18:43:29The topic of Shared or Group Calendars has come up a lot recently during discussions with Customers.

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