Using the Webmail Calendar at Hover

The Calendar component in Hover webmail lets you schedule and track events across Day, Week, Month, and Agenda views. This article covers creating and managing calendars, adding events, and keeping your schedule up to date.

What You Can Do with the Calendar

The Calendar component supports multiple calendars, four viewing modes, event creation, and calendar sharing, so you can keep personal and business schedules organized side by side.

Before you begin

• A Hover webmail account with Calendar access: Calendar is available to Big Mailbox customers only.

Step 1: Add a New Calendar

1. Click the Calendar tab.
2. Click the Menu icon (three vertical dots).
3. Choose Add calendar.
4. Enter a name and color for the new calendar.
5. Click Save.

Step 2: Edit or Delete a Calendar

To edit a calendar:

1. Click the Calendar tab.
2. Select the calendar you want to edit, then choose Edit/share calendar from the Menu icon, or double-click the calendar directly.
3. Update the name or color in the calendar properties pop-up.
4. Click Save.

To delete a calendar:

1. Click the Calendar tab.
2. Select the calendar you want to delete.
3. Click the Menu icon and choose Delete calendar.
4. Click Delete to confirm.

Step 3: Add an Event

An event is anything you want to schedule — a meeting, an appointment, or a reminder.

Note: You can add more than one event to the same time slot.

1. Click Create, or click the date where you want to add the event.

2. Complete the fields on the Summary tab:

   • Summary: the text that appears in the calendar time slot.
   • Location: where the event will take place.
   • Calendar: the calendar to schedule the event on.
   • Start date and End date: the date or date range for the event. If All Day isn't checked, you can also set start and end times.
   • Description: any additional details about the event.
   • Reminder: a reminder notification.
   • Category: Personal, Work, Family, or Holiday.
   • Status: Confirmed, Cancelled, or Tentative.
   • Show me as: Busy, Free, or Tentative.
   • Priority: the event's priority level.
   • Privacy: Public, Private, or Confidential.
   • URL: a related link for the event.

3. Optionally, click the Recurrence tab to set up a repeating event:

   • Repeat: how often the event recurs — Never, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Annually, or On dates.
   • Every: the interval, for example every two weeks.
   • On: which day of the week or month the event falls on.
   • Until: the end date for the recurrence.
4. Optionally, click the Participants tab to invite others to the event.
5. Optionally, click the Attachments tab to add a file.
6. Click Save.

Step 4: Edit or Delete an Event

To edit an event:

1. Click the event you want to edit.
2. Click Edit.
3. Update any fields across the available tabs. Edits to a recurring event apply to every occurrence in the series.
4. Click Save.

To delete an event:

1. Click the event you want to delete.
2. Click Delete.
3. Click Ok to confirm.

Next steps

• Add participants from your address book: see Managing Contacts in Webmail to build the contact list you'll invite to events.
• Review your calendar preferences: see Using Webmail Settings at Hover for default view, time zone, and reminder options.

Questions? Contact Hover Support.