Setting up scheduling

How you set up scheduling depends on where users are located -- that is, in the same Domino® domain or in different Domino domains -- and whether users use alternate scheduling applications, such as Lotus Organizer® and IBM® OfficeVision®.

About this task

For users in the same Domino domain, scheduling is automatically set up for non-clustered and clustered Free Time databases. You need to create the Resource Reservations database so that users can search for and reserve resources.

For users in adjacent Domino domains

About this task

Make sure that you have created adjacent domain documents in the Domino Directory to establish communication between the domains.

Procedure

  1. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.
  2. Choose the Domino Directory in the Use Directory on box.
  3. Click Messaging > Domains, and then open each appropriate Adjacent domain document.
  4. Click the Calendar Information tab, specify the calendar server name in the adjacent domain that accepts and processes all scheduling queries for that domain, and then save the document.
  5. Set up the Resource Reservations database if you want to allow users to search for and reserve resources.

For users in non-adjacent Domino domains

About this task

In order for two non-adjacent domains to do free-time lookups between each other, you need to define a Calendar server in an intermediate domain that is adjacent to both the querying and the target domains.

Note: Free-time lookups require reasonable network response time and direct LAN connections from the intermediate domain to the two separate non-adjacent domains.

Make sure that you have set up non-adjacent domain documents in the Domino Directory to establish communication between the domains.

Procedure

  1. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.
  2. Choose the Domino Directory in the Use Directory on box.
  3. Click Messaging > Domains, and then open each appropriate Non-adjacent Domain document.
  4. Click the Calendar Information tab, for the Route requests through calendar server field, enter the name of a calendar server that is in a domain adjacent to both the querying and the target domains. This server accepts and forwards free time queries from the source to the target non-adjacent domain.
  5. Save and close the document.

What to do next

Set up the Resource Reservations database if you want to allow users to search for and reserve resources.