Group Calendars

Im trying to figure out how to setup group calendars that multiple people can edit. I know that leopard's iCal will have this with caldav, but unfortunatly i cant wait for that. and need to come up with a solution until leopard hits. Im currently using webdav for users to access shared calendars which has worked very well. but now the key is to have a public calendar that 2 or more people can manage.

I am also looking for some way to allow other users to input events on a calendar that would sync with my ical. I have not used iCal in a long time, but as I consider purchasing the iPhone, I need to make sure that my assistant at work can put events on my calendar that eventually show up on my phone.
I am surprised that Apple has not addressed this scenario. For the iphone to appeal to more than gadget lovers (like myself), it has to start thinking enterprise.
Is there some way for someone other than an iCal owner to edit content on a calendar? Even if it involves a third party go-between?

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How to create a group calendar?

Hello,
i am sorry but this is one more question on wiki-group-calendars.
*In short:*
I am not able to create a group calendar with the wiki frontend. the calendar that is created with a wiki is owned by the admin of the wiki. So it is always a personal calendar that cannot be shared in iCal.
LONG:
I want to create a group calendar that is viewed and edited through iCal.app and the web service. Apple´s "wiki deployment" guide says on page 57:
+"The web calendar allows you to easily schedule events for yourself or your group. ...+
+There are *two types of web calendars: personal and group*. You can send and receive event invitations through the personal calendar but not through the group calendar. Also, *while anyone in a group can create or edit events in a group calendar*, you can edit only events in your own personal calendar or event invitations you send to other people.+
+The web calendar uses iCal Server to store events and invitations. ..."+
But there is not mentioned how to create a group calendar. The calendar created with the wiki web-frontend belongs to the admin of that particular wiki. This is why the calendar data ist stored in folder named with the UUID of the wiki admin. Also the alias "http://server.fqdn:8008/principals/groups/mygroupname/" which i provided in iCal turns into ..._uids_UUID-of-the-wiki-admin and only the wiki-admin can access this calendar in iCal.app.
My research on this topic reveals that there were in issue that should be resolved in 10.6.4 (that is running on our Server). So, again, how to create a group calendar?
Thanks, Philipp.
10.6.4 OSX Server
10.6.x Clients

farmer tan wrote:
you need to go to the wiki page and add the wiki's there and then in the setting of the wiki is where you set permissions and services such as calendar, blog, and podcast you can also set all permissions for the wiki in the settings tab
fyi none of my groups were available unless i logged into the wiki as the Directory Admin not Server Admin
migrated from 10.5.7 to 10.6
Message was edited by: farmer tan
Could you be more specific farmer tan, please?
You said "you need to go to the wiki page and add the wiki's there...." What is the "wiki page" you mention? Is that some place I go to via the browser or the Server Admin tool?
I went to http://ical.mysite.com/ical/ and logged in as the Directory Administrator but didn't see anything resembling what you described.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

How do I access group calendars on 10.8 server from a calendar client?

Hi,
I have a brand new installation of 10.8.2 . I installed the server app and started Calendar, Contacts, DNS, File Sharing, Mail, Open Directory and the Wiki services. I created a group with some users in it. I also created a group wiki and enabled the calendar for that wiki. The user group has r/w access to the wiki. The web interface to the wiki works from a client 10.8.2 client system. I can edit the group calendar through the web interface. I created an account in the Calendar application that connects to the server and shows the users' calendar. I altered the server path to /principals/__uids__/wiki-GROUPNAME/.
The calendar shown is still that for the user and not the one of the group. Hence my question: how do I access group calendars on a 10.8 server from the calendar application on a client?

yrmomsadic wrote:
Forgot to mention, you can techinically force it to work, but iCal breaks it for some unknow reason, taking it back to the users account after a day or two. The best work around has been to create a new user, named the group name, and then allow delegates to access the calendar. This however screws things up with the iphone calendar, as it didn't/doesn't handle delegates. Again, hoping Apple comes to their senses on this.
You can still delegated calendars on iOS, but the setup is a little tricky. You have to add an entirely new calendar account, and enter the full ugly url with the users uuid. It would be so nice if iOS just supported CalDav delegation.

How do I create a group calendar in iCal Server 3?

Hello everyone,
I have set up a Mac Mini server to address the calendaring needs of my company. I have also turned on the iCal service using the Server app in the Lion OS. While the shared calendaring functions for individual users of iCal are great, my company is in need of general office calendar for postings of things like vacation times, company holidays, special conferences, etc. Is there a way to configure the Mac Mini server to allow the setup of such a calendar?
Maximus. Prime

Okay, with everyone's help, I believe I have found a resolution to this issue. I am very grateful to everyone who has contributed this discussion. Your help has been invaluable.
1. The first thing I did was to ensure that the iCal and Wiki servers were both running.
2. Next, I created a user whose sole purpose was to create wikis on the server. (In retrospect, I probably didn't have to do this, as any administrative account, which is what I have, can also make wikis).
3. I then created a wiki. To do this open up your Web browser and enter in the name of your server followed by "/wiki" (no quotes). An example of this is servername.local/wiki. (If you are unsure as to whether or not DNS on your local network is working, you can enter the IP address of the server followed by /wiki).
4. Next login into the wiki by clicking on the lock icon in the toolbar. (You can use the account you created earlier or any admin account on the iCal server for login).
5. Click the Wikis button.
6. Click the plus sign in the toolbar, then click New Wiki.
7. Enter a name and optional description. It is much better to enter a short name with no spaces. This will matter in a later step.
8. Next you will see the Set Wiki Access dialog box. Here is where you can enter users of the wiki (calendar), and their permissions (i.e. Owner, Read-Write, etc.).
9. When done with the previous step, click create, and you should be taken to the "welcome" page of your wiki.
10. Click the gear icon in the toolbar then select settings.
11. Select Services in the sidebar, put a check into the Calendar box, and select Save.
12. You should now see a link for Calendar underneath your toolbar. Select it, then select Settings to adjust your timezone settings, etc.
13. You can log out of the wiki at this point.
14. Go to one of the users who was given access to the wiki in step 8.
15. Open iCal -- Preferences then select the Accounts tab.
**Now here is where things get "tricky."**
16. It is likely that this user has a functioning account on your iCal server. If you go to the Server Settings tab of the account and check the Server Path, you will see an entry similar to /principals/__uids__/longstringofalphanumericcaharacters/.
17. Replace the long string of alphanumeric characters with "wiki-wikiname" (no quotes). The wikiname is the name you entered in step 7.
18. Close the iCal preferences box, and close iCal.
19. The user may be prompted to re-enter his/her password. Do so, and afterward you should be have access to the wiki-based group calendar.
UH OH...what about the user's normal account?!?!?!
20. Go back into the account preferences tab of iCal and re-add the user's normal iCal account with his/her normal credentials. All of the user's calendar information should return because it is on the server and backed up regularly...right?
This solution appears to be working for me so far. I have verified that users who can only read from the wiki calendar do not have the ability to edit the calendar. Of course, those who can edit the calendar are able to do. These test users are also able to use their normal iCal accounts without any issues.

Using a wiki group calendar in ical

Dear all,
I have searched the forum now for quite some hours but I haven't found any sollution. I am running a Lion Server 10.7.2. I have setup iCal server and a wiki. I am trying to set up a group calendar, which is working, BUT I am having trouble to setup my iCal accessing that specific calendar.
Let's presume I am trying to get this work for testing in my own LAN first, so I am currently working with IP-addresses.
Server IP: 192.168.100.37
wiki's name: test
I can access the calendar through the webserver but of course I wanna use iCal.
I have learned from other posts that the iCal-account should be set up like this
http://mainserver.example.com:8008/principals/__uids__/wiki-intern/
This would mean for my server
http://192.168.100.37:8008/principals/_uids_/test
if I am correct. However iCal is telling me afterwards that no calendar has been found on the server. Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?
Thank you so much.

hi andre,
do u have the solution for this problem? i have the same problem
regards tony

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How can I create a group Calendar in iCal, Mountain Lion?

How can I create a group Calendar in iCal, Mountain Lion?

How do I add a user's group calendar in iCal?

How do I add a user's group calendar in iCal?
I just keep getting "the account was not found"
But the account works for its own network calendar.
None of the following locations work -
master.mydomain.net:8008/principals/groups/domainusers/calendar
master.mydomain.net:8008/principals/wikis/domainusers/calendar
master.mydomain.net:8008/calendars/_uids_/wiki-domainusers/calendar
and every variation I can think of (I've tried master.local, http:// & webcal:// and a / at the end)
I can add a users network calendar account to iCal.
I can subscribe to a group / wiki calendar in iCal.
I can add an event on the wiki calendar as a user.
But I want a user to be able to add an event to a group calendar in iCal.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Hi!
I've got the same weird problem..
I tried that url and I can open it in Safari and I even can add the calander in iCal on a macbook with 10.5 - but i just can't add it on my macbookpro with snow leopard.
Did anybody made that work on a snow leopard machine?
Best regards,
Fabian

ICal Group Calendar - Line command

Does anyone know how to create a group calendar other than through the wiki interface? I would think there is a line command as well.
I have created group calendars on several osx servers in the past. I have two 10.6.4 servers that seem to have an authorization or communication issue when creating the calendar through the wiki.
Apache: *PROPFIND /principals/wikis/company/ HTTP/1.1" 500 201*
Ical err Failure: *twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 61: Connection refused*.
Accessing the group calendar through the wiki give in in browser error:
quest URL:
*https://www.mycompany.com/principals/wikis/company/*
*Request Method:PROPFIND*
*Status Code:500 Internal Server Error*
I thought I'll debug it further by creating a group calendar by command line. Does anyone know how to do that? Or any other suggestions where to continue?

Thanks for that, Jonathan, but it appears to have a problem: you apparently can't use the Address Panel if you fill in the Account URL field, and all the attendees I fill in to events aren't "real" they have little exclams before their name, instead of check marks.
It seems that the Address Panel only works with accounts that have "Automatically discover server address" checked, and each account for which you have that checked must have a different Username -- you can't use a group name.
I suppose you could set up dummy user names so you could access the groups somehow, AND have the Address Panel working properly...
It's too bad this stuff doesn't work better. I'll bet it doesn't get better before the next "kitty" release, 18-24 months from now...

How to set up group calendar

Hi - I have set up a server on my mac pro. I have everything configured between the server and the clients, and the calendars are able to invite / respond to calendar events from others. What I am wondering about, however, is how to create a common shared group calendar where everyone sees everything that everyone does on the group calendar. I.e. not just events 'shared' or invited to...
Thanks,
Gareth

"currently there is no shared group calendar support."
Well, not really. You hinted at it with: "set up a group wiki."
Go into Workgroup Manager and set up an Open Directory group. Add people to it.
Each client must then go into iCal --> Preferences --> Accounts and add an account. The name and password entered must be the same as that added to the group, Kerberos must be unchecked, and the account URL will be like (fill in the blanks properly):
http://<your domain name here>:8008/principals/groups/<your group name here>/
Now each properly logged in user of that group can make changes to the shared group calendar, without any "hacks" like making dummy users and delegation.
However, I am getting a notifier: "Request Error: Accesss to <event name> in <your group name here> in account <your group name here> is not permitted." But that seems to be a lie, since multiple members of the group can make changes and others can see the changes.
Oh yea, make sure you have a functioning DNS with valid reverse lookup.
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How do I create a group calendar?

Hi All,
It is still unclear to me on a fresh 10.6 install how to create a group calendar (using only the Apple server administration utilities) such that all members of a given OpenLDAP group can also subscribe to and share the same calendar if they are members of that group.
As best I can tell, there does not appear to be anything about this in the documentation. I thought this was something that was going to be supported via the server-admin tools in 10.6 without resorting to the command line.
Maybe I'm just not seeing something obvious in the tools or documentation?

farmer tan wrote:
you need to go to the wiki page and add the wiki's there and then in the setting of the wiki is where you set permissions and services such as calendar, blog, and podcast you can also set all permissions for the wiki in the settings tab
fyi none of my groups were available unless i logged into the wiki as the Directory Admin not Server Admin
migrated from 10.5.7 to 10.6
Message was edited by: farmer tan
Could you be more specific farmer tan, please?
You said "you need to go to the wiki page and add the wiki's there...." What is the "wiki page" you mention? Is that some place I go to via the browser or the Server Admin tool?
I went to http://ical.mysite.com/ical/ and logged in as the Directory Administrator but didn't see anything resembling what you described.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Group calendar on wiki doesn't work but individual calendars do.

We have 10.6.3 server running as a OD master and I was looking to use the group calendaring feature of the wiki server. I go to the server using a web browser, sign in, and create a new wiki called "test". I then go into settings for the wiki and enable Calendar as one of the services. I save the settings and get a calendar link at the top of the page for the wiki. When I try to view the calendar I get the message in the middle of the page that says "Getting events from server ..." This never goes away.
When I go to view the calendar for my user, it comes right up. It seems that I have things configured well enough for the web and iCal servers to talk to each other, but something is going wrong with the wiki portion.
Since we are dealing with CalDav I started by using a web browser to diagnose the problem. I go to https://server1.jaxon.private:8443 and I can see that CalDav is working and I get the proper output. I try https://server1.jaxon.privat:8443/principals/users/username and I get all sorts of great info about the user. Finally I try https://server1.jaxon.private:8443/principals/wikis/test and I get an Internal Server Error. It makes sense that the webpage isn't working since the CalDav server isn't happy.
The site access log has the following entries when I try to visit the calendar:
10.0.1.20 - - [24/May/2010:14:44:48 -0600] "POST //server1.jaxon.private//server1.jaxon.private/RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 404 3754
10.0.1.20 - - [24/May/2010:14:44:48 -0600] "POST //server1.jaxon.private//server1.jaxon.private/RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 404 3754
10.0.1.108 - - [24/May/2010:14:44:47 -0600] "PROPFIND /principals/wikis/test/ HTTP/1.1" 500 201
So there are a couple 404 not founds and a 500 Internal Sever error.
I also get entries in the site error log:
[Mon May 24 14:43:04 2010] [error] [client 10.0.1.108] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/collaboration-availability, referer: https://server1.jaxon.private/groups/
[Mon May 24 14:44:48 2010] [error] [client 10.0.1.20] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/server1.jaxon.private
[Mon May 24 14:44:48 2010] [error] [client 10.0.1.20] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/server1.jaxon.private
Some additional info about our configuration is below
To start here is the output from changeip -checkhostname
Primary address = 10.0.1.20
Current HostName = server1.jaxon.private
DNS HostName = server1.jaxon.private
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
Under the iCal server section I have the Wiki Server listed as server1.jaxon.private with the SSL checkbox checked. Under Authentication I have type set to Any, Host Name as server1.jaxon.private, Port 8008, SSL set to Use, and SSL Port set to 8443.
Under the Web server section I have 1 site enabled with a Host Name of server1.jaxon.private, IP Address of 10.0.1.20, and Port of 443. The Options, Realms, and Logging tabs all have the default values. Under security I have the SSL certificate configured. Under Aliases and Proxy are just the defaults, and Web Services has Wikis, Calendars, and change their password options.
Any help would be appreciated.

Apple has a command line equivalent to the Server Admin GUI application that conveniently enough is called serveradmin. If you open terminal on your machine and type:
man serveradmin
You'll get the manual page for the serveradmin command. This will run you through all the different arguments you can use with the command and has some examples of the command usage.
If you type:
sudo serveradmin settings calendar
The sudo means super user do. This will temporarily escalate your privileges so you can run the command. It will then ask you for your password to verify your identity. When the command runs you will see all the different settings listed for the calendar service.
To change the value of an item you would do something like the following:
sudo serveradmin settings calendar:somesetting="new value"

Group calendars on 10.6.4 client machines no longer work with iCal Server

After updating 2 client machines to 10.6.4 I realized my group calendars no longer work in iCal.
I get "Server Responded With an Error" on all my group calendars, on both machines.
Preferences>Accounts>Server Path reveles the server path has reverted back to a GUID "/principals/_uids_/GUID string/" .
I change it back to "/principals/_uids_/wiki-GroupName/" and get it working again, but if I quit iCal and restart it again reverts back to the GUID.
I've trashed all calendars in ~/Library/Calendars, and the Prefs. I also tried "/principals/wikis/GroupName/", but again it reverts.
I booted to my 10.6.3 clone and have no problems with the group calendars there.
(I'm running 10.6.4 Server)
Is anyone else having this issue?
Any ideas?

Are you asking for an example of how to use calendarservermanageprincipals? While the tool is designed to help you configure privileges on resources and locations, it works fine for users. So I created a new user in Workgroup Manager to represent my Marketing department's calendars. I named this user "sharedmarketing".
Then, I wanted to give staff read-only access to the calendar and give Marketing write access, so I executed these two commands:
sudo calendarservermanageprincipals --add-write-proxy groups:marketing users:sharedmarketing
sudo calendarservermanageprincipals --add-read-proxy groups:staff users:sharedmarketing
I then imported the content from the Marketing Wiki calendar into this calendar and that was it!
If I logged in directly to the sharedmarketing account (not necessary), and looked how the account was set to be delegated, it properly showed group names:
There is no way to configure it like this using the iCal GUI, and this was I always felt that the management of privileges was the biggest obstacle in setting up iCal Server in this proper, supported fashion.
Then, from the client, I can naturally access those group calendars:
This is SO much easier to setup and maintain as each user only needs to have their ONE iCal account configured and they can just add the necessary groups, which is WAY easier than supplying users with crazy wiki-calendar URLs.

My calendar won't allow me to rename calanders nor will it recognize my group calendars anymore

My calendar won't allow me to rename a newly created calendar, whether it is a group calendar or not. I've tried restarting and it will not allow me to make a new group calander.

Well, after considerable time, I have figured things out and iCloud does in fact work with my Outlook 2007. I think most problems stem from the fact that iCloud doesn't work well if you also have a Mobileme account and that it works differently than traditional syncing when tethered with iTunes.
After setting up iCloud using the Control Panel icon, open Outlook and go to Calendars. You should see the “Calendar in iCloud” as one of you choices in the left panel. Select the iCloud Calendar as your default Calendar by moving it up to the top and point to it for your address book. It dosen't matter if your standard Calendar in Outlook is blank, because you are now using the iCloud calendar exclusively. If you turn off iCloud in the control panel by signing out, iCloud will re-populate your standard Calendar in Outlook and you will no longer see the "Calendar in iCloud. On your iOS devices, turn on iCloud and select only the iCloud calendar to view. The iCloud Calendar will update when you make changes and Outlook and all you devices will see those changes because they are all looking at iCloud Calendar. Your standard device Calendar or the default Calendar in Outlook do not sync with iCloud. Contacts in Outlook will include “contacts in iCloud” on the left panel and works the same as Calendars. When you are done out can see Calendar events and Contacts sync instantly on all you devices and in Outlook... very cool.
You can easily remove duplicates in the iCloud Calendar or Contacts in Outlook. See instructions here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299349 Apple’s new iCloud software works, but they could have done a better job in anticipating these type of problems and removing them or at least explaining how to deal with them.
I hope this helps!

Can't get group calendars to work

okay, so i'm getting the same "error processing data (210)" error on my group calendars. i have a standard leopard server running, on an internal network.
i have searched on here and tried everything, and can't get anything to work. the only thing i've managed to get working was a calendar for one user, and not any other users.
since it's a standard server install, i don't have many options to work with. please help

For my this solution on MacOS X Hints is working .. Now in a 3 user setup but it is going to be in a worksetup of 40+ people.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080410162942908&query=Group%2BCal

Group Calendar and different problems

Hey everybody,
tried to work with wiki calendars for a shared group calednar. The basic setup went well, but now i figured out some problems:
The DNS is setup well, and "changeip -checkhostname" works without an error. The client could ping the server with <FQDN> and getting the correct IP address. Server is 10.6.8 as well as on the client 10.6.8.
1.) When creating an event in the shared wiki calendar: the user couldn't invite any person. The inivited person didn't get an invitation. In the shared calendar the user is marked with an "". When creating the event in the personal calendar the inviation is working (see Nr. 2 below) and the user is shown with an "?" and when accepted with an check.
2.) Inviting an other person (within the personal calendar) will showing up the event in iCal with a grey dotted border, but he didn't get a notification in in the list. He could accept or decline by finding the event in the calendar, double click it and hit "accept" in the event window. That's working fine, but he didn't show an message when a person is invited, the event has updated or anything else.
3.) Permissions in the wiki calendar: The user has the permissions to read the wiki, but not to write to it (assigned to it with the Webinterface).
When the user tries to edit or deleting an existing event the following message is shown
When clicking on "Revert to Server" the event is set back to the old data - reverted - that works fine.
But when the user tries to create a new event, he's getting the following message:
when click on "Revert to Server" another message is shown:
Ignoring the message would keep the event in the calendar as well as "Go Offline" but not synced to the server. Even after manual syncing to the server or restarting iCal, he is syncing with the server but keeping that event showing up. After a few days there are so many wrong event the user didn't know what's a correct event on the server, and what's a false event.
That's very wired, because the user might think it's on the server, but it isn't! It's just shown in the local iCal
Could these problems be solved be reconfiguring the server (maybe command line?) or are they "bugs" in the Server?

#1 is not possible from what I gathered through monthhs of digging through forums. Group calendars do not send/receive invites. I even think I saw it in the Wiki Server documentation. Our method here is to send out the invitation from the user.. and then copy to the group calendar. The sending of events can be a tricky one.. Here I use an email gateway because our mailserver is separate from the ical server.
#3 I am uncertain what you say is a problem.. if the user has read-only permissions to that group calendar any modification on his part of the read-only calendar will flag with the above error message.

SL Read Only Group Calendars in iCal?

We've been using the wiki-based group calendars for a bit with SSL and/or Kerberos AD logins. Now I have a request that:
*Only some people can read.
*Only some people can read/write.
*Using AD credentials (Win2k8)
*All via iCal on 10.5
I found how to set users/groups to Read Only in the Wiki interface, but when that happens, it never takes the login credentials. When used as an account(http://servername:8008/principals/wikis/groupname/), it won't take. When used via Subscribe to Calendar (webcal://servername:8008/calendars/_uids_/wiki-groupname/calendar) it won't take. (The subscribe info comes from the wiki interface "i" box.)
What am I missing here?
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No, at the time I am writing this the topic is not answered. Simply applying the 10.5.6 combo update did not work for me when I had this problem.
This did NOT work either - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1906?viewlocale=en_US.
This is what worked:
0) make sure both iCal and Mail are closed, and it might not be a bad idea to temporarily shut off any syncing software you may have active
1) start with the calendar folders from Tiger that are located in Users/{yourusername}/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources, the ones with crazy names like "2E28E612-467E-4981-975E-D07A31AC39C4.calendar" which contain files" called "corestorage.ics," "Index," and "info.plist"; if "all" you have is an iCal backup library (.icbu file), then you can go to a Tiger machine, restore to that iCal, and then take the above calendar folders from it
2) copy the calendar folders to the desktop of your Leopard machine
3) read this thread (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1196389&tstart=0) down to the posts by Thierry Girard
4) do what he says with the text editor, but you can use TextEdit, and look for either the SEQUENCE:-1 or the PRIORITY:-1. Set either one to just 1 (remove the negative sign); I had some value related to a MICROSOFT this or that, and I did not change it at all.
5) take the edited calendar folders from your desktop and move them into /Users/{yourusername}/Library/Calendars
6) start up iCal; at this point, I was in business
I hope this is helpful.
RR

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