• Usernames and passwords are case sensitive; for example, "Bob" and "bob" are different.
• RTCal uses cookies to maintain login information. If cookies are disabled in your browser, you won't be able to login to RTCal.

A user with RTCal System Administration rights can reset passwords for users, and assign new ones; lost passwords cannot be recovered, since they're stored only in an encrypted format.

For security reasons, there's no special `superuser' password or `back doors'; if you lose the passwords for all users with System Administration rights, you'll need to run a special script to reset security - please let us know if you find yourself in this situation, and we'll send instructions.

Yes. You can turn taint mode on easily; just add the "-T" option to the end of the very first line of the main RTCal script.

This won't work if you're using Microsoft's IIS however; you'll need to edit the script mapping (for ".pl" or ".cgi" extensions, whatever is mapped to Perl); note that this will cause the server to run all Perl scripts in taint mode.

In RTCal v3.6 and later, a URL like this will go directly to the current month in the "Conferences" calendar:

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/RTCal.pl/Conferences

Of course, you will have to substitute your domain name, and the correct path to your RTCal script.

Some web servers don't handle that extra information in the URL correctly. (Most notably, IIS 4 servers without a special patch.) For these (or any) web servers, you can still get directly to a calendar with a URL like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/RTCal.pl?CalendarName=Conferences

Just use the standard HTML <IMG> tag in the event text. You can put a picture of, say, a Big Black Dog in an event using text something like:

 Look at my dog: <img src="/images/BigBlackDog.jpg">

And if you want that image to be a clickable link, try

 Click on my dog: <a href="http://www.mydog.com">
       <img src="/images/BigBlackDog.jpg"></a>

In Block view, the width of each column is - at a minimum - as wide as it needs to be for the widest entry.

The problem is that calendar entries will wrap only on whitespace, so if you have an event with a long string in it, the column it's in will be wider. E.g. an event with the text "This is an event with spaces" will wrap nicely, but one with "ThisEventDoesNotHaveAnySpacesInIt" will be rather wide, since it doesn't split the text.

You can fix this by adding a space where you want the string to wrap; you might enter the long word above as "ThisEventDoesNot HaveAnySpacesInIt".

You can do this with a little trick in the Calendar Header. You need to specify the Header as something like:

 </table>
 <table width="100%" background="/images/background.jpg">
   <tr><td>Side Bar Content goes here...</td>
       <td><table>

and set the Footer to:

 </table>

Yes, the table tags don't match up; the calendar generates some that fit together with these. You may need to experiment a bit to get it looking right :-)

(Warning - this is not a supported feature, and behavior may change in future releases.)

Of course, you can also get a left-side menu using HTML frames.