DFN-Appointment Finder

The Outlook calendar is available to us for internal university scheduling. Outside the university, this calendar is often not suitable, since not all persons concerned use Outlook.

For supraregional appointment coordination, our provider, the DFN Association, has recently started offering an individual service called "DFN Appointment Planner". This service is based on the "Doodle" calendar that has been offered on the Internet for years, but is operated on DFN's own servers for data protection reasons. This calendar is available free of charge to all users of the German research network and is easy to use.

More information and access to the DFN appointment planner: DFN-Appointment planner

For your understanding, we describe the procedure below, but it is self-explanatory when creating an appointment plan.

1. Start the planner via the above link and create a new appointment schedule. (Once you have opened this link, you will be guided through the program).
2. Name the appointment and enter the deletion date as well as a possible description. Here you can specify different dates and day or time.
3. The appointment schedule will now be published after it has been checked.
4. Your appointment planner is now ready.
   IMPORTANT: copy the displayed link and send it to the desired participants by e-mail.

When all participants have registered, you can set your final date based on the evaluation of the date suggestions and inform your participants accordingly.