Getting Started

To use a PRESTO group's website, you must belong to the group. You become part of a group by registering. Thereafter you gain access to the group by logging in.

While Logged In

After you login, you can:

• Do signups by visiting schedule pages.
• Access your personalized view, as described below.
• View and create forum messages. The user forum is provided to help groups find information and collaborate. It enables people to participate in multi-person discussions in their group or across the entire PRESTO community. Using the forum is much like using email.

Future Visits

To make it as easy as possible to revisit and login to your PRESTO group, you might want to do the following.

• Bookmark Self-Signup Home. (This is done by clicking on your browser's Star icon near the top of the browser window).
• If your browser asks you if it should remember your PRESTO Login information when you login, answer Yes.
• If you are in other groups, you can create login shortcuts to them. To do so, click on the to the right of the Logout button.

If you do not Logout when you leave this website, you will still be logged in when you come back. However if you need to leave PRESTO unattended in a public location, you should logout or password-protect your screen.

Note: since you are a privileged user, shutting down your computer will cause you to be logged out. But you can get around this by hibernating your computer instead of shutting it down.

Your Personalized View

After you login, your name, links to your info, and your signups will be displayed at the bottom of Self-Signup Home:

• You will be able to change your password and view/update your registration info. (In particular, if you get a new email address, you should login using the old email address 1 last time to change your email address in your registration info).
• If you have any signups for ongoing or upcoming events, you will be able to view and change them as well.
• You will be able to display and manage any personal signup schedules you have created. (A personalized schedule is created by Saving a temporary view setup by clicking on a icon). Temporary views and personal schedules can save time, particularly with a large schedule, because they enable you to quickly get to just the schedule items you are interested in.

How to Include Signups in a Calendar App

You can cause your upcoming signups to be shown in your calendar app — if it supports subscribing to an outside calendar via a URL. If not, see the next subsection.

Exporting

You can click export your signups to create an .ics file. However if you have previously associated the .ics file extension with an app, your PC will run the app (rather than presenting a Save File box).

Note that sometimes an association is builtin. For example, on Windows 10, the default app for .ics is the Windows 10 Calendar app. If you want to export to a different calendar app, you need to update the .ics association to point to that calendar app.

Subscribing

To set sharing up, you need to do your calendar app's Subscribe via URL command, and enter this URL:  https://prestogem.com/vo/example/signups/exc/12.

Some examples of how to do this:

Testing of instructions/apps ongoing

Google Calendar

1. Click the + to the right of Other Calendars.
   (This is near the bottom of the calendar page's left sidebar).
2. Then click on From URL.
3. Then enter the bolded URL above.
4. Then click the Add Calendar button.

iPhone Calendar

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Add Account > Other.
2. Then Tap Add Subscribed Calendar.
3. Then enter the bolded URL above.
4. Then tap Done.

Outlook Calendar

1. Login at https://outlook.live.com/calendar/.
2. Then click Add Calendar in the left sidebar.
3. Then click Subscribe from Web on the left sidebar of the Subscribe box.
4. Then enter the bolded URL above (and a calendar name if you want).
5. Then click the Import button.
6. Then run the Windows 10 Calendar app.
7. Then if you haven't already, add your Outlook.com account:
   do Calendar > Settings > Manage Accounts > Add account
   (Note: your signups will not appear under the default Microsoft account calendar).
8. Then press the Ellipsis at the top right and press Sync.

Apple Mac Calendar

1. Choose File > New Calendar Subscription.
2. Then enter the bolded URL above.
3. Then click Subscribe.
4. Then enter a name for the calendar in the Name field.
5. Then click the adjacent pop-up menu and choose a color.
6. Then click the Location pop-up menu and choose an account for the subscription:
   iCloud account makes the calendar available on iCloud devices.
   On My Mac makes the calendar available on just your computer.
7. Then click the Auto-refresh pop-up menu and choose how often to update the calendar.
8. Then click OK.

Agent and Observer Privileges

If your currently enabled privilege-level is Agent or Observer, clicking on a schedule in the Schedules column displays the Admin style of signups (i.e. you enter a name when you do a signup). If you have Agent privilege, you can do signups and the other signup-related actions for anyone — just like an Admin. If you just have Observer privilege, you can only signup yourself — and you must use the bottom half of Self-Signup Home to Cancel or Edit your signup.

Agents and Observers can display and print reports, send email to other users, and query the user database to display registration info and past signups. Just click the appropriate command button at the top of the page. Also you have an audit-trail link next to the user-forum link. Clicking on it displays each signup-related action of the current day that you have not seen yet.

When you click on a schedule in the Schedules column, you make it and its event current (as well as displaying that schedule). Since the other agent/observer pages lack a Schedules column, they provide other context-setting mechanisms:

• There is a set-current-event dropdown menu at the top of the page.
• The Agent/Observer Help button is replaced by a button that displays the current event's signup page.

You can switch to the user interface of a regular user by selecting that privilege level in the Enabled Privileges dropdown menu (below the What's Going On table). Also whereas regular users always see Published, & on now or later events, you can choose which events to display via the List Events dropdown menu. (Note: Active Events are those not marked completed).