Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
send and receive a meeting invitation, though you also need a compatible e-mail application that un-
derstands CalDAV and lets you not only receive but also respond to the invitation.
If you have any pending invitations, you'll see them when you tap the Inbox, which is separated into
new invitations and invitations to which you've already replied. You can tap any of the items in the
list to see more details about the event to which you've been invited.
Suppose that a meeting invitation arrives from your boss. You can see who else is attending the
shindig, check scheduling conflicts, and more. Tap Accept to let the meeting organizer know you're
attending, tap Decline if you have something better to do (and aren't worried about upsetting the per-
son who signs your paycheck), or tap Maybe if you're waiting for a better offer.
And as we pointed out previously, you can also invite other folks to attend an event that you yourself
are putting together.
Meantime, if you run into a conflict, why not ask Siri to change your schedule? For that matter, you
can also call upon Siri to remind you when you have your next appointment. Visit Chapter
14
for
more on this clever feature.
You can choose to receive an alert every time someone sends you an invitation. In the
Calendar settings, tap New Invitation Alerts so that the switch is turned on.
As mentioned, if you take advantage of iCloud, you can keep calendar entries synchronized between
your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac or PC. When you make a scheduling change on your iPad,
it's automatically updated on your computer and other devices, and vice versa. Choose iCloud from
the Add Account screen to get started, assuming you didn't turn on iCloud when you first activated
your iPad.
Subscribing to calendars
You can subscribe to calendars that adhere to the CalDAV and iCalendar (.ics) standards, which are
supported by the popular Google and Yahoo! calendars and by the Mac's Calendar (and iCal). Al-
though you can read entries on the iPad from the calendars you subscribe to, you can't create entries
from the iPad or edit the entries that are already present.
To subscribe to one of these calendars, follow along:
1.
Tap Settings
⇒
Mail, Contacts, Calendars
⇒
Add Account
⇒
Other.
2.
Choose Add CalDAV Account or Add Subscribed Calendar.
3.
Enter the server where the iPad can find the calendar you have in mind.
4.
If need be, enter a username, a password, and an optional description.
