Sage ACT! 2012 Event Calendar Management

How can you put something on everyone's ACT! calendar without scheduling an activity for them? Easy. With ACT! you can use Manage Events to place one-time, or recurring, events on your company calendar with just a couple clicks.

Use this little-known tool for scheduling holidays, company picnics, or even your birthday.


Here, having just emerged from our Trade Show planning meeting, we need to alert the Sales & Marketing team when our trade show has been scheduled. In addition to circulating an email we would like to add the event to our calendar. With a few clicks in ACT! the trade show will be featured prominently on everyone's calendar as you see here.

From the Schedule menu, click Manage, then Events...

Click on the Add button, and in the Add Event dialog box type out the name of the event (Trade Show, here), select the date, and select the duration.  Additionally, we can select whether the event is recurring, or not.

...and then you are done!  Now everyone knows the results of the planning committee.

**NOTE** 

If the events don’t display on your calendar, it may be that they have been turned off in Preferences.

Click Tools, Preferences, click the Calendar & Scheduling tab

Click Calendar Preferences button.

Put a check in the Display events option before exiting Preferences.

Here is a list of holidays you can use for the remainder of 2012:

Monday, May 28 - Memorial Day

Wednesday, July 4 - Independence Day

Monday, September 3 - Labor Day

Monday, October 8 - Columbus Day

Tuesday, November 6 - Election Day

Monday, November 12 - Veterans Day

Thursday, November 22/3 - Thanksgiving 

Tuesday, December 25 - Christmas Day

Tuesday, January 1, 2013 - New Year's Day

Other days to mark on the calendar

Wednesday, February 22 - Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - Leap Year

Sunday, March 11 - Daylight Savings Time

Saturday, March 17 - St Patrick's Day

Sunday, April 1 - Palm Sunday

Friday, April 6 - Passover

Friday, April 6 - Good Friday

Sunday, April 8 - Easter Sunday

Sunday, May 13 - Mother’s Day

Sunday, June 17 - Father’s Day

Saturday, September 1 - Not August Anymore Day

Sunday, September 16 - Rosh Hashanah

Tuesday, September 25 - Yom Kippur

Wednesday, October 31 - Halloween

Sunday, November 4 - Daylight Savings Time Ends

Saturday, December 8 - Hanukkah

Wednesday, December 26/30 - 'Tween Week

Monday, December 31 - New Year's Eve

For more tips and tricks, or to ask your own questions about ACT!, don't hesitate to call or email.