Activating Alarms

To activate (or set up) an alarm for an activity, select the Alarm check box in an activity record on any screen that provides an Activities view or in the Calendar screen.

Alarms work correctly only if your computer's time zone setting is the same as the time zone set up in your user preferences. For more information, see Default Time Zone.

To activate an alarm for a calendar activity

  1. Navigate to the Calendar screen

  2. In the Daily, Weekly, or Monthly calendar format, click the hyperlink for an activity description to access the activity.

    The Calendar Detail form appears.

  3. Select the Alarm check box

    The Alarm Lead field is automatically populated with the default lead time set up in your user preferences. For more information, see Default Alarm Lead Times.

  4. To change the lead time, select a value from the drop-down list for the Alarm Lead field.

  5. Click Save This One.

    An alarm icon appears next to the hyperlink for the description of the activity in the calendar.

Note: You might want alarms to trigger for every calendar activity you create. You can perform this setup in your user preferences. For more information, see Activating Alarms for All Calendar Activities.