OX App Suite

Table of Contents

1 About this Documentation
1.1 Who is the target group for this documentation?
1.2 Which contents are included in the documentation?
1.3 Design Elements
1.4 Terminology
1.5 Further Help
2 Getting started with the OX App Suite
2.1 OX App Suite Definition
2.2 System Requirements
2.3 Operating Instructions
2.4 Signing in, signing out
3 First Steps
3.1 The User Interface
3.2 Customizing the Basic Settings
3.3 Changing Personal Contact Data
3.4 Changing the password
3.5 Setting up Accounts for Social Networks
4 Applications
4.1 The Apps Components
4.2 Which Applications do Exist?
5 Portal
5.1 Components
5.2 Customizing the Portal
5.2.1 Changing the portal squares' order
5.2.2 Adding portal squares
5.2.3 Changing the portal squares' settings
6 E-Mail
6.1 The E-Mail Components
6.2 Displaying E-Mails
6.3 Viewing or Saving E-Mail Attachments
6.4 Sending E-Mails
6.4.1 Sending a new E-Mail
6.4.2 Replying to E-Mails
6.4.3 Forwarding E-Mails
6.4.4 Automatically forwarding E-Mails
6.4.5 Sending a vacation notice
6.5 Managing E-Mail messages
6.5.1 Moving E-Mails
6.5.2 Copying E-Mails
6.5.3 Marking E-Mails as read or unread
6.5.4 Collecting addresses
6.5.5 Categorizing E-Mails with labels
6.5.6 Showing the E-Mail source
6.5.7 Working with E-Mail drafts
6.5.8 Enabling an E-Mail reminder
6.5.9 Adding an E-Mail to the portal
6.5.10 Saving E-Mails
6.5.11 Importing E-Mails
6.5.12 Printing E-Mails
6.5.13 Deleting E-Mail messages
6.5.14 Editing multiple E-Mails at once
6.5.15 Editing all the E-Mails in an E-Mail thread
6.5.16 Using Unified Mail
6.6 E-Mails within a Team
6.6.1 Sharing E-Mails
6.6.2 Subscribing to E-Mail folders
6.6.3 Inviting all E-Mail recipients to an appointment
6.6.4 Saving all recipients of an E-Mail as a distribution list
6.7 External E-Mail Accounts
6.7.1 Setting up and editing external E-Mail accounts
6.7.2 Using an external E-Mail account
6.8 E-Mail Settings
7 Address Book
7.1 The Address Book Components
7.2 Displaying Contacts
7.3 The Halo View
7.4 Adding Contacts
7.4.1 Creating a new contact
7.4.2 Importing contacts from files
7.4.3 Importing contacts from social networks
7.5 Creating Distribution Lists
7.6 Organizing Contacts
7.6.1 Sending E-Mails from within an address book
7.6.2 Inviting contacts to an appointment
7.6.3 Editing contacts
7.6.4 Moving contacts
7.6.5 Copying contacts
7.6.6 Sending contacts as vCard
7.6.7 Printing contacts
7.6.8 Deleting contacts
7.6.9 Editing multiple contacts at once
7.7 Contacts within Teams
7.8 Interchanging Contacts with Other Applications
7.9 Address Book Settings
8 Calendar
8.1 The Calendar Components
8.2 Displaying Appointments
8.2.1 Displaying appointments in a calendar view
8.2.2 Displaying appointments in the list view
8.2.3 How are appointments displayed?
8.3 Creating Appointments
8.3.1 Creating new appointments
8.3.2 Creating appointments from iCal attachments
8.3.3 Importing appointments from files
8.3.4 Subscribing appointments from other calendars
8.3.5 Resolving appointment conflicts
8.4 Answering Appointment Invitations
8.5 Managing appointments
8.5.1 Editing appointments
8.5.2 Editing appointments with drag and drop
8.5.3 Changing the appointment status
8.5.4 Moving appointments to another folder
8.5.5 Printing appointments
8.5.6 Deleting appointments
8.5.7 Editing multiple appointments at once
8.6 Team Appointments
8.6.1 Sharing appointments
8.6.2 Sending an E-Mail to participants
8.6.3 Creating a distribution list from the list of participants
8.6.4 Scheduling appointments with several participants
8.7 Calendar Settings
9 Files
9.1 The Files Components
9.2 Viewing Files
9.2.1 Displaying files in the list view
9.2.2 Displaying files in the icon view
9.3 Opening Files and Displaying Contents
9.3.1 Displaying a file's content
9.3.2 Displaying the contents of documents
9.3.3 Playing Multimedia Files
9.4 Creating Files
9.5 Managing Files
9.5.1 Sending files as a link
9.5.2 Sending files as E-Mail attachments
9.5.3 Showing the link to a file
9.5.4 Editing file names
9.5.5 Editing descriptions
9.5.6 Moving files
9.5.7 Copying files
9.5.8 Adding files to the portal
9.5.9 Deleting files
9.5.10 Working with versions
9.5.11 Editing multiple files at one time
9.6 Accessing Files with WebDAV
9.6.1 Setting up WebDAV under Linux
9.6.2 Setting up WebDAV under Windows XP
9.6.3 Setting up WebDAV under Windows Vista
9.6.4 Setting up WebDAV under Windows 7
9.7 Files and Teams
9.8 Files Settings
10 Text
10.1 The Text components
10.2 Creating Documents
10.3 Editing Documents
10.4 Editing Documents Under a New Name
11 Tasks
11.1 Tasks Components
11.2 Displaying Tasks
11.3 Creating Tasks
11.4 Answering Tasks Invitations
11.5 Managing Tasks
11.5.1 Editing tasks
11.5.2 Marking tasks as done
11.5.3 Changing a task's due date
11.5.4 Moving tasks
11.5.5 Changing tasks confirmations
11.5.6 Printing tasks
11.5.7 Deleting tasks
11.5.8 Editing multiple tasks at once
11.6 Tasks within a Team
11.6.1 Sharing tasks
11.6.2 Delegating tasks
11.7 Interchanging Data with Other Applications
11.8 Tasks Settings
12 Organizing Data
12.1 Searching for Objects
12.2 Printing Objects
12.3 Folders
12.3.1 Folder types
12.3.2 Navigating within the folder structure
12.3.3 Creating folders
12.3.4 Renaming folders
12.3.5 Moving folders
12.3.6 Deleting folders
12.4 Permissions
12.4.1 Which permissions can be granted?
12.4.2 Permissions for folders that already exist
12.4.3 Permissions for new folders
12.4.4 Sharing folders
12.5 Publish&Subscribe
12.5.1 Subscribing to data
12.5.2 Publishing data
12.5.3 Managing subscribed and published folders
13 Exchanging Data
13.1 Importing Data
13.1.1 Importing appointments and tasks in iCal format
13.1.2 Importing contacts in the vCard format
13.1.3 Importing contacts in the CSV format
13.2 Exporting Data
13.2.1 Exporting folder data
14 Best Practices
Frequently Asked Questions
14.1 General questions
Q: Where can I find my personal data and settings?
Q: How can I change my password?
Q: Why can particular buttons or input fields not be found?
Q: How am I notified about new E-Mails or appointment invitations?
Q: How can I read current messages from social networks or news pages?
14.2 Questions about E-Mails and contacts
Q: How can I send an E-Mail to multiple addresses at once?
Q: What is the purpose of the input fields Copy to... and Blind copy to...?
Q: I regularly send E-Mails with identical or similar content. How can I speed up this process?
Q: Can I e.g. access E-Mails sent to my Google Mail account?
Q: How can I automatically forward E-Mails to my replacement?
Q: How to keep the overview over my E-Mail accounts inboxes??
Q: How can I use the contacts from my social networks?
14.3 Questions about tasks, calendars, and appointments
Q: When should I use a task and when should I use an appointment?
Q: How can I create a task from an E-Mail?
Q: How can I organize another person's appointments as a representative?
Q: How do I use the availability function, e.g. Free, Busy, Absent etc?
Q: How do I use the calendar recurrence settings?
Q: How to find free times when creating appointments?
14.4 Questions about data organization and team work
Q: How can I make certain contacts available to my external partners?
Q: How can I share specific documents with my external partners?
Q: I want to share a folder with other users. Which permissions do I have to set?
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