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Sharing calendars - Amazon WorkMail
Sharing calendars with other usersOpening shared calendars

Sharing calendars

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You can share your calendar with other users, and view calendars that have been shared with you.

Note

If you share a calendar with a user that has Read permissions, that user can view everything in the calendar, potentially including items marked Private.

Sharing calendars with other users

You can give another user permission to view your calendar within the WorkMail organization. You cannot share calendars externally.

Note

You will need to grant full details read permissions to open a shared calendar. Free or busy read permissions will only show the availability.

To share your calendar with another user

  1. Sign in to the Amazon WorkMail web application.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose the calendar icon.

  3. Under My calendars, open the context (right-click) menu for a calendar.

  4. Choose Properties.

  5. Choose Permissions.

  6. For People with permissions, choose Add.

  7. Search for and select the users to share your calendar with.

  8. Choose Ok, and then choose Ok again.

Opening shared calendars

You can set permissions on your calendar and share it with other users.

To open a shared calendar

  1. In the Amazon WorkMail web application, on the shortcut bar, choose the calendar icon.

  2. At the bottom of the navigation pane, choose Open other calendars.

  3. In the Open other folders dialog box, choose Name.

  4. In the address book, select the owner of the calendar to open and choose OK.

  5. For Folder type, choose Calendar.

  6. To show the subfolders of the shared calendar, choose Show subfolders.

  7. Choose OK.

    The shared calendar is now visible in the folder navigation pane.

    Note

    Your opened folders are stored in your Amazon WorkMail web application profile. The next time you log in to the Amazon WorkMail web application, the opened folders are still displayed.

    If you receive a message saying You have insufficient privileges to open this folder, contact the owner of the folder and ask them to grant you access.

    To change folder permissions, in the navigation pane, open the context (right-click) menu for the folder and choose Properties, Permissions.

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