ICal group publishing?

I have an iCal group of 10 calendars. I want my salesmen to see this group. Is there any way to do this besides them subscribing to ten individual published calendars?

Greetings,
If you wish to share an entire group of calendars with others (not just send them individual events or calendars) then you will need a host. A host is a server which sits on the internet and holds the calendar for you.
If you are a MobileMe subscriber (a host) you could provide your login name and password to everyone that needs access to these calendars and they can add the MobileMe account to their computer to see all the calendars. I only recommend doing this if you are using a MobileMe account dedicated to this business purposes as you should never give your personal account information to anyone else.
You could also sign up for a free calendar service like Gmail calendars / Google calendars (a host) and then provide the login information to all those that need access. They can add the GoogleCalendar to their computer to see all the calendars at once.
Beyond that you could also setup your own calendar server using Mac OS X Server. That may be more features than you are looking for although it can be highly useful. If you think you might be interested in getting a server installed in your office you might want to locate a Mac OS X Server consultant in your area to discuss your needs: http://consultants.apple.com/
Hope that helps.

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Here is my problem. I can publish my iCal group to the web and view the group calendars just fine, but the colors do not show up in web view like they do in the application.
What am I doing wrong, or is there a solution?
Thanks!

Johnny,
There is nothing that you are doing wrong.
What you are observing is simply a limitation of the publish feature.
You may want to provide Apple - iCal - Feedback.

Published ical-group

I published an ical-group with .mac. In the beginning there were three calendars. Then I opened a new caladar in this group. But now it is not published. What's to do?

Robert,
If you added a new calendar to the group, then you will have to click on the Group Calendar name in the iCal sources (Calendars) window and then select iCal>Calendar>Refresh.
Updating Internet calendars provides additional information.
;~)

Ical not publishing to dotmac--new information

Hello, I have been having a hard time with icalendar not publishing on dotmac. It started happening suddenly on my upgrade to 10.5.2.
The dotmac support people have been responding to my inquiries with the following suggestions (eached bumped to a higher level):
1) unpublish and republish--nope doesn't work
2) corrupted file, remake the calendar (which means re enter every entry)
3) the most recent is that my file size (1.9 mbytes) can't be published on ical.
Has anyone heard this before? It is news to me, and google and forum searches have not indication of a limit to ical file sizes for dotmac publication.
Now it seems my choices are:
1) Try to find a way to bulk delete old events (there have been some messed up syncs with missing sync that have created a lot of repeated events). There are literally thousands of individual events that have to be deleted over the 5 years I have been using ical.
2) Re enter my dates in a new calendar going forward and publish that new calendar. Frankly, that seems easiest, but I have to admit being peeved at the undocumented file limit.
It is not a matter of my idisk size or anything like that. According to the tech " and can see that it has a file size of 2 MB. I'm sorry, but your calendar is too large to be rendered on a web browser. iCal publishing is intended primarily for personal use, and not as a means of publishing such a large and complex schedule.
I'm very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. To decrease the size and complexity of your calendars, you might consider decreasing the event repetition, or splitting the events from one calendar into several smaller calendars."
So, anyone have any pointers?

I'm also having this problem. Lots of things seem to be broken in 10.5.5. I see that iCal last published my calendar in August 2008. Spotlight no longer seems to be indexing iPhoto. I wonder what else doesn't work. Most aggravating is that Apple never seems to acknowledge these problems. As mysteriously as they came, they might go away. It just works => That's just the way it works!

How do you know if your ical is published? Or find out, I have an iCloud account, I don't want my info to be public?

How can you tell if your ical is publish, I have an icloud account, I do not want other to see my calendar, all of my caledars are under icloud. Is this private? Wha is the best choice for your default calander?

If you have access to a Mac couldn't you receive your verification via iMessage and work to view you iCloud Account?

Subscribing to Ical group

Can a person using a PC Windows XP or Vista subscribe to an iCal group?

This problem may not have anything to do with your hostname.
I've had a similar problem subscribing to calendars from the web interface. In my experience, iCal still doesn't allow ssl encrypted webcal subscriptions. Notice the address you referenced from your log... "http://wiki.mydomain.net:8443" should be "https://wiki.mydomain.net:8443" with SSL.
This is how I have worked around it...
Set the SSL option in the authentication pane of the iCal service in Server Admin to "Redirect" instead of "Use". This will redirect traffic from port 8008 to port 8443 (or whatever you have set your iCal service ports to.
In the subscription dialog in iCal (after clicking the "Subscribe in iCal" link from the web interface), change the port number in the address to 8008 (or whatever your non-SSL port is).
It's not pretty, but it's working.

ICal Groups and Palm Categories

I've been struggling to get these two programs to work together well and may have finally figured it out. But before I go and screw up my iCal and/or Palm device...
If I name all my categories in my Palm the same as the Events in my iCal Group, will they sync correctly? Or will it end up being a big mish-mosh?
Anyone had any luck doing this?

I don't know - I haven't had any problems at all. Here is how iCal calendar to Palm category is intended to work:
Calendars and Categories
• iCal events are assigned to a Palm category with the same name as the calendar they are part of.
If the category does not exist on the Palm device, the Events conduit creates a category with the calendar name and assigns the event to that category. If that category cannot be added - due to space limitations - the event is added to Unfiled.
• Palm events/tasks that are in a specific category are sent to that calendar in iCal only if a calendar with the same name as the category exists.
If the calendar does not exist, the record will be sent to the calendar that is chosen in the conduit configuration sheet. If the calendar is read only, the event/task will be ignored.
• On the first synchronization of read-only calendars, the items are properly assigned to the correct category on the device.
If any edit is made to an item in a read-only calendar the change is ignored but will persist on the device until something forces it to be overwritten by data from the desktop, like if the R/O item was updated. If an item is assigned to a read-only calendar - a new event, etc - it will be switched to the calendar you have selected in your preferences.
• Calendars listed in the conduit settings are pulled from Sync Services, meaning that if iCal has not finished synchronizing with Sync Services the full list of calendars may not be read.
I'm curious about something…
When you first installed the Missing Sync for Palm OS, did you faithfully follow the instructions to synchronize one final time with iSync - so that your handheld and desktop applications contain essentially identical record sets - and, then set the Mark/Space conduits to Overwrite handheld with desktop data prior to the initial synchronization?

Publishing an iCal group with different options for each calendar

I work at a University and I've my various functions organized into their own calendar; I've a Office calendar for my office activities, a Class calendar for my class activities, a Club calendar for my club activities, and of course a personal calendar. The personal calendar is not published.
As a general rule, the folks from each fuction know to go to the calendar I've published for them to keep track of their activities. But they also need to see when I'm available, and for that they need to see my entire calendar.
They need to see what activity I'm engaged in because some of the time I've blocked out is inflexible - class times for example, or departmental meetings - so they know those times are unavailable; but some of the time I've blocked out is relatively flexible - like when I'm listed as being in the office working on a project.
I can publish them all as a group, but there is one universal setting as to whether each calendar in the group shows details or not. Is there a way to customize what is shown for each calendar in the group? Basically, I don't want the details of my personal calendar published with the rest, but they need to see that I have that time blocked out for something so they know I'm not available. If I don't publish my personal calendar, gaps show up on the grouped calendar that really is not there - it's not time available for someone to schedule an activity.
And one other question - is there a setting that preserves the colors of the various calendars when published? Right now they all show up as one color. It would help each group if they could scan the complete calendar for their activities.

Hi K.
I don't think it's possible to have those text properties vary in a text-ring, but you might be able to accomplish your goal using a pict-ring - using images of formatted text. In the example (attached) Paint was used to create the pictures then import them into the pict-ring. Here Unclebump shows how to use "Draw Text at Point.vi" to create formatted text in a picture control, though, I have no idea how to copy such pictures out of the pictures control!
Cheers!
"Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out." (attributed to Tony Hoare)
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ICal Web Publishing Error, UK time change

We publish booking availability for our village hall via ical onto the hall's website.
During October 2010 the " We're Sorry" Apple error message was encountered and put down to problems associated with the UK summer/winter time change.
The problem then disappeared for some weeks - the calendar published to the web site without a hitch.
Now it has re-occurred.
Have Apple made a decision to remove the web publishing feature or is it just another technical hitch?

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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.
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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...

ICal not publishing to MobileMe

Simple problem:
Trying to publish my home calendars to MoblieMe.
When I select a calendar from ON MY MAC, then select CHANGE LOCATION and choose PUBLISH ON MOBILEME, then hit PUBLISH ... it says the calendar has been published.
But when I choose VISIT PAGE, I get a dialogue box with the message "We're sorry but we cannot find the iCal you've requested. It's possible that it has been deleted or renamed."
Sure enough, no matter how many times I hit SYNC or PUBLISH (in any number of ways) ... the calendar never shows up.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks muchly,

Unfortunately, I am also seeing this annoying Apple bug.... Published an iCal calendar to the web, to "MobileMe" as iCal offers, whereupon it proudly announces the URLs to subscribe or view the calendar... each link leads to:
We're sorry but we cannot find the iCal you've requested.
It's possible that it has been deleted or renamed.
A similar false announcement is made when you publish a movie from iMovie to YouTube, where Apple announces the movie is published and you wait an hour assuming YouTube it taking its time, only to find out the movie never uploaded. That one can blame on YouTube (third party) making some change Apple (still?) does not know about... but iCal on a Mac publishing to an Apple service giving the same false positives is beyond lame.
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Does Snow Leopard Server iCal Service support iCal Groups?

I have successfully configured iCal Service on Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8v1.1 and have several client Mac system (runing SL 10.6.8v1.1) connected to this service via CalDAV. I can create new calendars and those calendars and any test events propigate to all machines that have this CalDAV account configured. But whenever I try to create a calendar group it always appears as a local calendar group. Is this a feature missing when using iCal Server and CalDAV? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks

Hi
I doubt if you'll find a step-by-step as most people's requirements are different. One of the places most people start is here:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macosxserver
Have you tried searching the Forum itself?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1352
Tony

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Any idea why iCal is adding the Holidays to my published Calendar?
Dave

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