Layered calendars

Suppose you use the calendar in both Microsoft Exchange and Google. If you set up both of those accounts to sync with your smartphone, your smartphone's Calendar app shows the events from both in a single view—a layered calendar with events that are colour-coded to identify which provider they come from. Individual events are stored separately with your different providers; the events are just assembled in one view on your smartphone for your convenience.

If you change an event, the change is made in the appropriate calendar.

You can also look at the events of just one calendar at a time.

Use Calendar for the first time

1Open Calendar .

2Do one of the following:

•To set up an online account to sync: Tap Add An Account and go to step 3.

•To open Calendar without creating an online account or to use accounts you have set up already in another app: Tap Done. This opens your HP webOS Account and any online accounts, and you can start creating events in these accounts.

3To set up an account that is listed, tap the account type and go to step 4. To set up an account type that is not listed, tap Find more to find an app, then follow the instructions onscreen.

4Enter the account information and then tap Sign in.

5If you are setting up an Exchange account, to keep your Exchange account secure, you may be asked to set a password or PIN that is required to unlock the smartphone. Tap Set Password or Set PIN.

Enter a password or PIN and tap Done. If you encounter problems while setting up an Exchange account, see Set up email: Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to learn about setting up an account manually.

6Depending on the account, you may be presented with options for which apps should download data from that account. For each app, tap On or Off and then tap Create.

NOTE If you choose to sync Calendar with an online Facebook account, your Facebook events show up in Calendar, but you cannot add calendar events to Facebook from the Calendar app. To work directly with Facebook, use the Facebook application developed for your smartphone (see Facebook). To work directly with LinkedIn, go to linkedin.com in the Web application (see Web) or download the free LinkedIn application from App Catalog.

Set up an online account in Calendar

1Open Calendar .

2Do one of the following:

•To set up an online account the first time you use Calendar: See Use Calendar for the first time.

•To set up an online account any other time: Open the application menu, tap Preferences & Accounts, tap Add Account, tap an account type and go to step 3. To set up an account type that is not listed, tap Find more to find an app, then follow the instructions onscreen.

3Enter the account information and then tap Sign in.

4If you are setting up an Exchange account, to keep your Exchange account secure, you may be asked to set a password or PIN that is required to unlock the smartphone. Tap Set Password or Set PIN.

Enter a password or PIN and tap Done. If you encounter problems while setting up an Exchange account, see Set up email: Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes to learn about setting up an account manually.

5Depending on the account, you may be presented with options for which apps should download data from that account. For each app, tap On or Off and then tap Create.

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