Using the manager

The manager lists all your events and tasks so you'll get a quick overlook of all the data that you have in Rainlendar. You can sort the items by different columns or use the search field to locate the item you are looking for. The search field does a substring search from all the columns and it will do it automatically as you enter the text. So, for example if you want to see all the birthdays that you have in your event list just type "birthday" in to the search field and it will mach the string from the category field. The search is case-insensitive so you don't need to use capital letters.

The manager allows you also to create new events and tasks, modify them and probably more importantly delete them easily. You can select multiple events from the list and pick Events->Delete from the menu or hit the delete key to get rid of the events that you don't need anymore.

You should note that the recurring events and tasks are listed only once. The start and end dates are taken always from the first occurrence. This is because otherwise the list would be infinite for recurring events that repeat forever.

Import and export

The import and export functions are available from the manager's file menu. The submenus show all the supported import and export formats.

iCalendar Format (.ics) This is the standard import and exports format. All the events and tasks are also internally kept in iCalendar format so this is guaranteed to preserve all the data when exported. Importing supports also vCalendar format (.vcs).

Rainlendar Ini Format (.ini) This is the legacy format that the previous version of Rainlendar used. You can only import the ini files; exporting is not supported. The Rainlendar Ini Format is implemented only in Windows version of Rainlendar.

NOTE: The export saves only the events or the tasks depending which ones are visible in the list. Also if you have selected one or more items from the list only the selected events or tasks are exported. If you want to export both the events and the tasks you need to do that separately for the both types.

Backup and restore

To make a backup from your settings, events and tasks you can select the backup menu item from the manager's file menu. The backup will create a zip archive from the necessary files which you can save to some safe place. If something bad happens you can easily restore all the important stuff from the backup file.

Backup doesn't cover events and tasks from Outlook or from the network calendars. Your skins and languages are not backed up either so you need to copy those manually or download them again from wherever you originally got.

Note that when you restore files from a backup file the files will be overwritten. So all your settings, events and tasks will be reset to the ones that are inside the backup. The backup contains absolute paths to the files so you can only restore it to the same computer or one that has all files in the same locations. The backup file is a standard zip archive so you can also restore the files manually from it too.

Printing

If you want a hard copy of your events or tasks for some reason you can print the events from the manager. The printed items (events/tasks) depends what is selected in the manager. You can print all the events or tasks or just the selected ones as a single list. Or you can print the items as a calendar between the selected days. The calendar will show always full weeks even if you pick a date that is in the middle of the week. If the "Add Title" is checked the name of the month is shown in top of the calendar.

Make sure to use the preview button before you print anything to see that everything is like it is supposed to.