Setting Free/Busy Times

For GoldMine to read a contact's published free/busy times, you must configure the contact's Contact Details to access the file. After setting the path, you should see the contact's free/busy times when using the Free/Busy tab while scheduling an activity.

Use the following procedure to set free/busy times.

1. With the contact record active in GoldMine, select Edit > Record Properties > Contact Details.

2. At the Contact Details dialog box, select the Free/Busy tab.
3. In the Contact's name drop-down list, leave the primary contact name or select an additional contact's name.
4. In the Free/Busy URLClosed Uniform Resource Locator. The global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. drop-down list, select file, ftp, or http. In the text box type or browse to the location where the file is published. If you select ftp, type the UsernameClosed Use this name to log into GoldMine. Identifies the user's activities. and Password in the text boxes.

The configured URLs appear in the Contact pane.

5. To add a new contact to the Contact list, click New and complete the various drop-down boxes and text boxes as needed.
6. To remove a URL from the pane, select the contact and click Delete.
7. Click OK to close and save the URL.

If accessing a contact's free/busy time on an http location, you must configure the Internet Information Services to accept .ifb. For more information, Configuring IIS to Access .ifb File Types.