>Remote MacOSX iCal Publish and Subscribe for LDEO

Overview

The Lamont iCal Exchange was created to give the Lamont community an easy way to publish their calendars using the built-in "Publish to a web server" mechanism of Apple's new iCal desktop application.

You can publish your calendars here for free, if you are part of the Lamont community. When you share your calendar URLs, visitors will be able to download the .ics file, and even view your calendar through a Web browser.

Q: HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR THIS SERVICE?
Q: HOW DO I PUBLISH A CALENDAR TO ICAL AT LAMONT?
Q: HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE TO A CALENDAR?
Q: HOW DO I VIEW MY CALENDAR IN A BROWSER?

Q: HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR THIS SERVICE?

A. Email request@ldeo.columbia.edu with.

Your Name:
Your email address:
Calendars Site Name: (For Example: Mahdad MBSYSTEMS, BOREHOLE)
Calendar Access Level:

public(global),
public(lamont),
password protected for group/user acccess(Supply a username and password)

Q: HOW DO I PUBLISH A CALENDAR TO ICAL WORLD USING ICAL'S "PUBLISH ON LAMONT's WEBSERVER" FEATURE?

A. Launch the iCal Application. 1. Select the calendar you want to publish from the calendar list.
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2. Select "Publish" from the calendar menu in the toolbar.
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3. Choose the parts of the calendar you want the subscriber to have access to in the "Publish Calendar" window. *Publish Name:* Enter the name that will be displayed in the subscriber's calendar list. *Publish Changes Automatically:* Select this to automatically update your calendar on our servers 30 seconds after you complete a change.(Active internet connection required) *Publish Subjects and Notes:* Select this to make your event subjects and notes available to subscribers. (Leave selected unless you are making a calendar with alarms only) *Publish Alarms:* Select this to make your event alarms available to subscribers. (Subscribers have the option of removing alarms) *Publish To Do items:* Select this to make your To Do items available to subscribers. (Subscriber has the option of removing To Do items) *Publish on .Mac:* Select this if you are publishing your calendar to your .Mac account. (Available from apple.com for $99 a year) *Publish On A Web Server:* Select this to publish your calendar to the Lamont's servers http://ical.ldeo.columbia.edu/username *URL:* http://ical.ldeo.columbia.edu/username *Login:* Enter your lamont user name or the username and password that you supplied with your request here. *Password:* Enter your lamont password here.
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4. Click the "Publish" button. When your calendar is successfully published a dialoge box appears with the URL people will use to subscribe to the calendar. 5. You can announce your calendar to people in your Address Book by clicking the "Send Mail" button. If you would like to announce it at a later time, Select "Send Publish Email" from the calendar menu in the toolbar. (To use other email applications like PowerMail, stop by our Tips Page.)

Q: HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE TO A CALENDAR?

1. A url to your calendar will be provided.

2. iCal will automatically open and desplay the "Subscribe to Calendar" window where you can set the details of your subscription.If the calendar is password protected, it will ask you for a username and password.

Refresh: Select this to automatically update the subscribed calendar. Choose from Refresh every 15 minutes, every hour, every day, or every week. (If left unselected., you can manually refresh a calendar by selecting "Refresh" from the calendar menu in the the menubar.)

Remove Alarms: Select this to remove all event alarms that may be in the calendar.

Publish To Do items: Select this to remove all event To Do items that may be in the calendar.

3. Click the "Subscribe" button.
Your caledar has now been added to your calendar list.

Advances Options: Select this to subscribe to an
iCal World SecureCal calendar.

Needs Authentication: Select this to activate the Login and Password fields.

Login: Enter your iCal World user name here.

Password: Enter your iCal World password here.

Note: Login, and Password are your regular lamont username and password.

Q: HOW DO I VIEW MY CALENDAR IN VIEW A BROWSER?

http://ical.ldeo.columbia.edu/username/view

Or the secure version at:

https://ical.ldeo.columbia.edu/username/view