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.
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: unavailable — you are not logged in.
Some examples of how to do this:
Testing of instructions/apps ongoing
Please email support@prestogem.com if you have problems or suggestions.
Google Calendar
- Click the + to the right of Other Calendars.
(This is near the bottom of the calendar page's left sidebar).
- Then click on From URL.
- Then enter the bolded URL above.
- Then click the Add Calendar button.
iPhone Calendar
- Go to Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Add Account > Other.
- Then Tap Add Subscribed Calendar.
- Then enter the bolded URL above.
- Then tap Done.
Outlook Calendar
- Login at https://outlook.live.com/calendar/.
- Then click Add Calendar in the left sidebar.
- Then click Subscribe from Web on the left sidebar of the Subscribe box.
- Then enter the bolded URL above (and a calendar name if you want).
- Then click the Import button.
- Then run the Windows 10 Calendar app.
- 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).
- Then press the Ellipsis at the top right and press Sync.
Apple Mac Calendar
- Choose File > New Calendar Subscription.
- Then enter the bolded URL above.
- Then click Subscribe.
- Then enter a name for the calendar in the Name field.
- Then click the adjacent pop-up menu and choose a color.
- 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.
- Then click the Auto-refresh pop-up menu and choose how often to update the calendar.
- Then click OK.