Requirements
VOCalendar v1.02 or higher
VOCalendar Creator (Non-Commercial Version)

Links
VOS Homepage
VOCalendar Product Page

1. Create a new file by selecting File...New from the menu or by clicking the "New" button on the toolbar.
2. Click on a month background to set the graphics for that month.  You will see the following dialog appear:
   

3. There are three graphics to set for each month: The Title graphic shows the month name, the Day Bar shows the days of the week, and the Background is the actual background of the month.  You will need to set all three graphics before you can leave this dialog.  The dimensions of the graphics and more details on them is found in the tutorial "Creating Skins" tutorial.

4. If you name your Title, DayBar and Background graphics in a manner that is discernable to the program, it will interpolate the names of the graphics for the rest of the months.  For example, if you select "BG02.GIF" for the background of February, the program will attempt to find and set "BG03.GIF" for March, "BG04.GIF" for April, etc.  These values will only be auto-filled if they are empty.

5. Once the month graphics are set, your window should look something like this:

6. Now it's time to add some events to the calendar.  Click on the "+" icon in the day you want to add the appointment to.  You will be shown the "Add Category" dialog, because we have not defined any categories yet (each event must be in a category).  Create a new category named "Church" and hit OK.  You will then be able to add the actual event.  The dialog looks like this:
    

7. Set the description to "Senior Picnic" and set the icon to any graphic file you want (or save this graphic: by right clicking on it and selecting "Save As..." from the pop-up menu).

8. You should now see icon for the new calendar event on the day you clicked on.  Your calendar might now look like this:

9. (Note that if you hover over the icon, you will see the event details) Click on the event icon to edit or delete it.

10. You can create as many categories as you want by pulling down the category drop list and selecting "New Category" from the drop list.  This will allow your users to filter events that they do not want to appear on their VOCalendar display.

11. When you are satisfied with your calendar, select "File...Save" to save it.  An XML file will be created with your calendar's contents in it, and any graphics referenced in the calendar will be copied to the same directory you save into.

12. To upload the calendar to the Internet, copy the XML file and all supporting graphics files from the save directory to your Internet server directory.  You can now connect to this calendar from VOCalendar by entering the URL of the XML file.