quick guide for google calendar / outlook / Apple iCal user
- google calendar
Step 1: go to your google calendar, choose one or more calendars you want to share, click “Share this calendar”.
Step 2: In “Share with specific people:”, type in rubyatame(at)gmail.com, click “Add Person”, and click “Save”.
- Apple iCal (if you don't use .Mac)
(Thank Ryan for providing the following instructions!)
Step 1: Register for a username on iCal Exchange (http://www.icalx.com/create.php). Don't use a sensitive password, because iCal Exchange does not encrypt logins.
Step 2: In iCal, select "Calendar -> Publish"
Step 3: Within the "Publish Calendar" Window, select "Publish on: A Private Server"
Step 4: Enter the "public calendar" URL for your account from iCalX (eg: http://icalx.com/public/myUserName) into the "Base URL" field, then enter your iCalX username and password.
Step 5: Select "Publish Changes Automatically" so new events will be published as well.
Step 6: Log into the iCalExchange website and copy the URL to the ".ics" file for the calendar you want to share with community trajectory (eg: http://www.icalx.com/public/myUserName/MyCalendar.ics).
Step 7: Email this URL to rubyatame(at)gmail.com.
- Apple iCal (if you use .Mac)
The following instruction is excerpted from here.
Step 1: In iCal, go to Calendar > Publish.
Step 2: Type in your Calendar name, the server that you’d like to use, and any additional settings.
Step 3: Now you have access to two separate URL’s for your calendar. Click “Send Mail” to send an email to rubyatame(at)gmail.com. We will use the first URL to subscribe your calendar.
- Outlook
Currently we only have solution for Outlook 2007 user. The following instruction is excerpted from here.
Step 1: Clicking a "webcal://" link in a web browser: When you click on a webcal:// link, Outlook displays the confirmation dialog box as below, and clicking yes creates the subscription binding.
Step 2: After publishing calendars, you can send Sharing Messages to send an email to rubyatame(at)gmail.com
