
When you receive a new invitation you'll see an inbox icon appear at the top of the window. This allows you to see if your invitees' availability has changed, or to quickly reschedule an event to another suitable time.
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The availability window can also be shown from the Window menu after selecting an existing event. You can also configure a time manually, and if one of your contacts has an event booked for the time of your event it'll turn red to indicate a conflict. The Next Available Time command is the quickest and easiest way to schedule an event, with Fantastical instantly performing the hard work of finding a time when you and your invitees are all free. In the bottom-left of the availability planner, you can use the pull-down menu to toggle the timeline to either display "All Day" or "Work Hours" (work hours are configured in Preferences > General > Day starts/ends at).

Click Check Availability to open a schedule planner and observe your contacts' availability throughout the day (click the button to the right of the date to open this view in a separate window). In addition to using the check and cross icons for a quick indication of your contacts' availability, a more detailed availability view can be displayed too. Please note that iCloud does not support availability. A yellow exclamation mark icon indicates that your contact is not available on the server, and thus availability is unable to work. In the event details, click the invitee's name to choose whether to request a response or not.Īfter adding invitees to an event, a check or cross icon will appear next to their name indicating each invitee's availability at the time of your event. If you're creating an invitation on an Exchange calendar, you can choose whether the invitee needs to send a response or not. For example, typing "Lunch with Beth tomorrow" will allow you to quickly invite Beth to the event.įantastical will also search for contacts stored on your Google or Exchange server, providing you've added at least one of those accounts to Preferences > Accounts, and that the contacts you want to invite belong to the same account that you are creating the current event on.

Inviting people to eventsįantastical will search the system Contacts when it looks like you're trying to invite someone to an event. Fantastical includes a number of tools to make it easy to manage invitations to and from other people.
