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multiple alarms & how to set them
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 15, '04 05:12:55PM

I think the confusion arises from a design bug in iCal: when you make a new appointment [which has no alarms, of course], the place you quite naturally choose to click is the word "alarm".

As you see in this image: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcaf/etsjcp/imagery/greyed_out.jpg .... a click on "alarm" affords you only a greyed-out menu.

If you click on the word "None", to the right of "alarm", you will see the menu you need for adding alarms. Now you can add your first alarm, as shown in this picture: http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcaf/etsjcp/imagery/pulled_down.jpg ....

Most of you have probably already discovered this. That's perhaps why, when you want to add another alarm, you [quite understandably] look for the same thing you clicked earlier when you wanted to add an alarm ... but it's not there.

Now that you have added an alarm, you must click the word "alarm", <i>even though it did nothing for you earlier</i>. See this image, of the very same appointment, as I add a 2nd alarm:

http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcaf/etsjcp/imagery/2nd_alarm.jpg

It's a design bug because the program functions, but the way it's been designed to function misleads you. Don't blame yourself; this needs to be changed so that the interface is consistent, whether you add 1 alarm or more than 1.

I hope this helps.

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osxpounder



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