At this time, version 6 is available only for Windows. A Macintosh version will be released later this year (2002).
If you are upgrading from a previous version of CorporateTime, find out what's new in this version of CorporateTime, and then install version 6. If you are installing CorporateTime for the first time, skip ahead to installing version 6. What's New in CorporateTime Version 6?
New Look and Layout
- The icons have changed, and some options have moved to new locations in the toolbar and menus. Becoming comfortable with the new release may take a little time.
- A new Tools menu has replaced the old Options and Directory menus, and includes some items from the old View menu as well. Choosing Options from the Tools menu opens a new dialog window where you can adjust settings for your Agenda and In-tray preferences, entry defaults such as reminders, schedule and notification choices, date and time zone, startup choices, and address book layout and contents.
- The window for creating events has changed. This window also has a new Tools menu, which includes Suggest a Date/Time, Apply to All, Send Mail, and other options. A new Add Date... button and a redesigned Repeating window make meetings with multiple dates easier to handle.
New Features
- You can customize the colors of meetings displayed in your agenda by choosing from a menu of 48 basic colors or by creating your own colors. You still have to choose one of the same three schemes (Importance Level, Attendance Status, or Ownership) for assigning colors to meetings.
- To do it: From the Tools menu, choose Options, click on the plus sign next to Agenda, then click on Colors. Click on any of the colored squares to open the color menu.
- You can save the state of your windows at any time, so that the windows will be set up the same way the next time you open CorporateTime.
- To do so: First set up your windows the way you want them, then choose Options from the Tools menu. In the left side of the Options window, click on the plus sign next to General, then click on Startup. In the right side of the Options window, choose the radio button marked "Open new session with the saved state" and click the Save State button.
- E-mail notification of events has been improved in several ways:
- The subject of the e-mail will be the event's title rather than the name of the person proposing the event.
- For repeating meetings, the e-mail will list only the dates that have been modified or deleted, and will be sent only to people who were invited to the meeting on those dates.
- Reminders can be sent via e-mail or SMS. Open an event and click on the Reminders tab.
- Reminders can now be snoozed one at a time.
- Details and attachments can be added to Daily Notes and Day Events.
- Color printing will recognize the color settings you have selected.
- The new on-line Address Book allows you to create categories of addresses.
- By right-clicking on a meeting, you can choose Open Group View... to see a window with the combined agendas of everyone invited to that meeting.
- In the Access Rights window, you can use shift-click to select multiple people and assign the same rights to all of them.
- A new "embedded help" option displays a brief message in each window summarizing how to use the options in that window.
- This option is turned on by default. To turn it on or off, choose Options from the Tools menu, click on General, and click inside the check box labeled "Display embedded help on all dialogs."
New Icons in the Toolbar
Open your own: In-tray, Agenda, Tasks, or Address Book
Open anyone's: Group Agenda, Individual Agenda, or Tasks
View agenda by: Day, Week, or Month
Create a new: Meeting, Task, Day Event, or Daily Note
Search within an Agenda, or Print
Move back in time, return to today's agenda, or move forward in time
Related Links
- Release Notes: CorporateTime 6.0 for Windows from Steltor
Installation
- First, download the installer.
- Run the installer in whatever manner you find most convenient, for example by choosing Run from the Start menu and typing "C:\Program Files\CorporateTime\ctime6.exe" in the Open box.
- Click Next > in the Welcome window.
- In the License Agreement window, scroll down to read the entire agreement, then click the radio button next to "I accept the terms in the license agreement." Click Next >.
- In the Destination Folder window, click the Change... button if you wish to select a different location, otherwise click Next >.
- Click the Install button.
- You may see a warning that other applications are using files needed by the installer. Close the other applications and click Retry.
- You may see a message that an earlier version of CorporateTime has already been installed on your system, and that removing earlier versions is recommended. Click Yes to remove the earlier version.
- Click the Finish button.
- To complete the installation you will need to restart your computer. Click Yes in the Installer Information window to restart now.
- When you start CorporateTime 6.0 for the first time, settings you selected in an earlier version of CorporateTime will still be in effect.
Next, find out how to start using CorporateTime.
CorporateTime at Cornell Home Page
Last modified: October 30, 2002
Archived: May 25, 2007
Questions? Write to corporatetime@cornell.edu
