Creating an event
- Click on a time and date in the calendar. The simplified event creation form will pop up over the calendar grid.
- Enter a name and a description.
- Specify the time and date. If this is a recurring meeting, enable the Repeat option.Tip. To create birthday reminders, select Repeats yearly in the Repeat list for each event.
If you want to add participants, specify the location of the event, and set the time and notification method, click Full event settings.
If you share the calendar with other users, information about this event is available to all the participants you shared it with. However, you can make an event private so that only its participants can access this information. To do that, switch to the full event settings and enable the Participants only option.
- Click the Create event button on the left-hand panel. The full event creation form will appear on a new page.
- Enter a name and a description.
- Specify the time and date. If this is a recurring meeting, enable the Repeat option.Tip. To create birthday reminders, select Repeats yearly in the Repeat list for each event.
- Add participants to your meeting. If an invited user can't join an event because they are busy at the time according to their calendar, their address is highlighted in red. You can check when users are available by looking at the Participant availability section.
- Specify the location.
- Set the time and notification method (email, SMS, or CalDAV).
- Set the event's visibility. If you share the calendar with other users, information about this event is available to all the participants you shared it with. However, you can make an event private so that only its participants can access this information. To do that, enable the Participants only option in the Visibility section.Note. You can configure visibility for all new events in the calendar settings.
- Specify event access permissions in the Access section. If permitted, participants can edit your event and invite other users.
Click Create and the event will immediately appear in the calendar. The event will take the color of the calendar.
You can also add events to your calendar from a file or via a link. To learn more, go to Importing events from another calendar.
I can't create events
If you received an error message, it means that our security system finds your account suspicious. Possible reasons are that there is no phone number linked to your account or that your full name specified in your account is fictitious.
As such, you'll be temporarily blocked from creating events in Yandex Calendar. To resolve this issue, please provide accurate information in your account settings and link your phone number on the Phone numbers page. The block will be automatically lifted.
