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== End-user documentation ==

We often get feedback from people that want to contribute to the Calendar apps, but lack the technical skills needed for programming. 

This page is for you. We need your help!

We are currently lacking any kind of end-user documentation. We need tutorials, geared towards typical end-users like your neighbor or your grandma, explaining to them the basic tasks in a calendar app.

===General===

====Calendar Project and its components====
* Calendar is the name of the project that has two distinct outputs which both use the same code base:
** [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/index.html Lightning] is a calendar extension for [http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Mozilla Thunderbird]. It offers calendaring features directly in the Thunderbird User Interface. Further integration features, such as e-mail invites or address book integration are planned for future releases.
** [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/index.html Sunbird] is our standalone calendar application. It doesn't need another client application to run at the cost of a larger download and higher memory requirements. Because of its standalone nature, Sunbird does not offer any kind of tight integration with an e-mail application, such as [http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Mozilla Thunderbird].

The latest Lightning and Sunbird official releases can be downloaded from the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ Calender Project] home page. 

This document focuses on the 0.9 release.

===Installation===
* [[Calendar:Installing Sunbird|Installing Sunbird]]
* [[Calendar:Installing Lightning into Thunderbird|Installing Lightning into Thunderbird]]
===Configuration===
* [[Calendar:Configuring Sunbird|Configuring Sunbird]]
* [[Calendar:Configuring Lightning|Configuring Lightning]]
===Interface Components===
* [[Calendar:Calendar Gui|Calendar Interface Components]]

===Basic Tasks===
* [[Calendar:Events|Working with events]]
* [[Calendar:Tasks|Working with tasks]]
* [[Calendar:Calendar_Gui#Switching_Modes|Switching between Mail, Calendar and Tasks mode in Lightning]]
* [[Calendar:Creating a new event or a new task|Creating a new event or a new task]]
* [[Calendar:Creating a recurring event|Creating a recurring event]]
* [[Calendar:Changing the time or date of an event|Changing the time or date of an event]]
* [[Calendar:Switching between the different calendar views|Switching between the different calendar views]]
* [[Calendar:Inviting other people|Inviting other people]]
* [[Calendar:Adding a holiday calendar|Adding a holiday calendar]]
* [[Calendar:Exporting a calendar and sharing it with other people over the net|Exporting a calendar and sharing it with other people over the net]]
* [[Calendar:Creating new calendars|Creating new calendars]]
* [[Calendar:Printing a collection of events|Printing a collection of events]]
* [[Calendar:Using Lightning with Google Calendars|Using Lightning with Google Calendars]] to share your calendar with friends, coworkers, or among several computers.
* [[Calendar:Changing your calendar preferences|Changing your calendar preferences]]
* [[Calendar:Lightning keyboard shortcuts|Lightning keyboard shortcuts]]
* [[Calendar:24_Hour_Format|See Times In 24 Hour Format]]


It would be great if you could help us out here, either by writing a tutorial, contributing screenshots or thinking of other things that could be documented.

We really look forward to what our community can accomplish.