MIT TechTime™ on Oracle Calendar

Overview

MIT TechTime™ is an enterprise-wide personal calendaring system, based on Oracle Calendar, which runs on a central, secure server. With TechTime™ you can manage your schedule and coordinate easily with the schedules of other users. You can also synchronize your calendar with a Palm OS device.

MIT TechTime™ is available, for free, to any member of the MIT community with a Kerberos username and password. Access to MIT TechTime™ is through the web client or the desktop client, and is secure and encrypted.

With MIT TechTime™ on the web or on the desktop client, you can:

• View your calendar entries in various formats.
• Schedule meetings with other MIT TechTime™ users, either individually or by creating groups.
• Suggest meeting times when others are involved, and check for conflicts.
• Keep track of who has accepted and who has declined a suggested meeting.
• Look at the calendars of other MIT TechTime™ users.
• Control how much of your calendar information others can view.
• Assign Designate rights for another person to work in your calendar.
• Synchronize your MIT TechTime™ calendar with a Palm OS device.

Features available only on the desktop client:

• Print options that include a variety of formats, and easy setting of date and time ranges.
• Search your own or other MIT TechTime™ user's calendars.
• When viewing other agendas, each calendar opens in a separate window, so that you can have multiple calendars open at the same time.
• An In-tray that lets you list and manage entries to your calendar.
• Work off-line with your calendar information stored on your computer.

MIT TechTime Resources
Resources in TechTime are anything other than people which can be scheduled. Resources are generally rooms or equipment, but special types of resources can be created, such as a group-wide vacation calendar or other scheduling calendar. For details, see Administering MIT TechTime Resources.

Activation and Access

Activate Account
To use MIT TechTime™ you must first activate your account. With a web browser on which you have an MIT personal certificate, go to the Account Activation page and click the Activate button. You will get a confirmation and your account will be available immediately.

Web Access
To access via the web, go to the MIT TechTime™ login page with any web browser. You can log in with your MIT personal certificate if that is installed in the browser, or you can log in with your Kerberos username and password. Either way, the connection to TechTime™ is secure and encrypted.

Desktop Client

1. Download
   To access MIT TechTime™ via your desktop system, you must download and install a desktop client.

The following pages give more details on the desktop clients:

• MIT TechTime™ on Oracle Calendar 9.0.4: Linux | Macintosh | Windows
• Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4.2.6 for Windows
• Palm Synchronization Clients: Macintosh | Windows

2. Login
   Before logging into MIT TechTime™ with the desktop client, you must have active Kerberos tickets.

• Desktop Client Login: Linux | Macintosh | Windows

Resources

Built-in Help
Both the desktop and web clients provide comprehensive online help about procedures for the features of MIT TechTime™ on Oracle Calendar.

In the web client, click on the question-mark icon to the right of the tool bar.
In the desktop client, go to the Help menu.

Context-sensitive help is available in the function windows of the desktop client.

On the Macintosh, click on the question-mark icon .
On Windows and Linux, press F1.

Online Help for MIT TechTime™ on Oracle Calendar:

• Quick Guide
• Preferences
• Access and Designate Rights
• Set up Connection to Administer MIT TechTime™ Resources
• Login and Administer Access Rights for Resources

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Getting Help

Who to Contact:

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