ICal Publishing / Color Question

I recently figured out how to publish my 6 different calendars onto mobile me (by putting them into groups). So when I did this and published it, they all changed to 1 color instead of the 6 different colors that they are.
*Does anyone know if there is a way to make it so you can publish multiple calendars to one and still keep the colors?*

TylerArchAngel,
Unfortunately, the color for all calendars in a group will be blue on the published group calendar which is displayed on the web.
FWIW, I agree that the published version should be color coded, and recommend that you let Apple know about your needs through...Apple - iCal - Feedback.
;~)

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AGGRAVATING PROBLEM:
Many in this forum have written recently about a problem ongoing for people with multiple iCal calendars where iCal calendar colors change "automatically" when you haven't selected those colors, or even "change back" before your eyes to some color your DIDN'T select after you select a new one. If you log into iCloud on the Web and try to change the color of certain calendars, they refuse to change. Try as you might, the color you want for your calendar won't "stick" and it is forced to be the wrong color on all your devices. In some cases, even the names of some of the calendars cannot be changed. On other calendars in your list, the colors and names will change fine.
Related symptoms: Calendars you have deleted "come back."   Or, calendars you did not create yourself show up in your calendars list, such as "Calendar" or "Home" or even "Untitled." Note that the problem seems to be most prevalent with calendars with names "Home," "Work," OR either of these words in the NAME of the calendar. For instance, "Bob's Work" might get snagged (it can't be deleted without coming back or its color is stuck and "comes back").
I spent a long time on the phone with a helpful Apple senior advanced specialist on this problem today. We conducted a very large number of "experiments". Our family has two iPads, 2 iPhones, and 2 iMacs, so it was easy to rule things in or out. I will present some information that may help.
SOME OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE GOING ON:
First, Apple has not resolved this. But the problem appears to be related to iCloud, and NOT to individual devices. After de-linking all of my individual devices from iCloud, I could change any of the colors or names at will on any given device, create new calendars and then change their colors to whatever I wish, delete calendars, change names...no problem. However, after re-linking calendars to iCloud, all the problems mentioned above returned. The chances that my iMacs, iPhones, and iPads are all causing the problem independently is very low. They also have slightly different OS versions on them, so it is not likely an a particular device OS, though that could be indirectly related. Also, the colors "change back" within about the same time (usually a few seconds to up to 30 seconds) that it takes to do a "refresh" (i.e. an update) to the iCloud servers. This when iCloud is turned on, and the absence of it when iCloud is turned off (for calendars), strongly suggests that it is the iCloud server and its interaction with your devices that the fundamental cause of the problem.
Apple has said that they are aware of this problem and their engineers are working on a fix. Historically, this can mean just a few days, or it could be a few months, years, or "whenever." They don't give estimates of when it will be fixed. Exactly WHY this is happening is unclear, but my guess is that it is a modification to the iCloud server code that Apple implemented without testing it thoroughly enough to discover this problem. Apple does not admit to that, of course and I don't know if I am correct.
A WORKAROUND SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME:
Please note this is a workaround and not a full fix. Apple needs to run a patch on their iCloud server code. Until then, I did the following which seems to have worked for me for now. Read the whole list before deciding whether to proceed. I don't guarantee it will work in all situations.
Note...I found I was stuck for now with the color of ONE of my calendars. If you are like me, you want to keep that one and work around it....
Backup first... Make sure that your iCloud copy of your calendar data has the calendar event information you want to save - even if the color is wrong. Log in at www.icloud.com and do a refresh to sync to the Cloud. Check over your calendars online to make sure the event data appears to be there for all of your calendars (even if their color or name is not what you want).
Steps:
1.     Go to every device that you have linked to iCloud separately. Go into Settings, iCloud, and then uncheck the "Calendars" option. This delinks your calendars for that device to iCloud. As you do this on each device, when prompted, select "Keep On My" ..iPAD...iPhone...iMac... etc. This will preserve the calendar information on the device so it won't be deleted. I think this is safer, but you can click on "Delete" if you want, too. Note - if one of your devices is an iMac, with OSX Lion and before, you may be forced (I was) to delete the iCloud calendars from the iMac. So again, make sure they are backed up to the Cloud first (or somewhere else).
3.     With the iCloud Calendars Option on all your devices still turned off, go to the WEB and log into iCloud.com. You need to figure our which calendar iCloud won't let you change the color for. You probably already know. On iCloud.com, click on "Calendars," then click open your calendar list and select "EDIT" at the bottom of the dialog box. One at a time, click on the color dots next to each calendar name and try to change the color (you can put any back after the test if you want). You will probably see a certain one that just goes right back to what you don't want. This is the one for which the color is stuck, but you may be able to change the name of it now that your devices are unlinked from iCloud.
4.     Still in iCloud.com, change the names and colors of any of the other calendars you wish to change. Delete any empty calendars that mysteriously appeared without your wanting them. Take note of all the calendars, names, and colors that are on the final list of calendars.
5.     On EVERY device, BEFORE turning iCloud back on on ANY of them: Change the colors and/or names of calendars, delete calendars, etc. so that the calendar names and colors on the device are exactly the same as what you left in iCloud.com in the last step.
6.   One at a time on each device, go back to Settings and then "iCloud" and check again the box for "Calendars." You will be asked whether you want to "MERGE" your data with iCloud. I selected MERGE to ensure I didn't lose anything. Link each device again into iCloud one at a time.
7. When each device is back, go back to iCloud on the Web, or go into iCAL on one of your devices. Set to view ALL calendars. Look for duplicates of some of your events. I found quite several as an artifact of "merging", but in my case it only took me about 5 minutes to go through quickly and delete the duplicates. It deleted the duplicates on all of the devices at once, so I only needed to delete dups on one device. I did not find that I lost any events as long as I kept one valid copy.
Again, no guarantees...hope this works for others. Good luck.

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I have several calendars that publish to icalx.com. When I add a new event and start typing, ical publishes before I am done editing the event. Then I have to double-click or command-E to edit the event and finish it.
I have those calendars set to publish automatically, though if I can't solve this, I would change it back to manual to avoid the hassles...

Perhaps you've just updated your OS and now have the newer version of iCal which is ***** compared to the faster, more elegant older version. The older iCal presented every event's details in a ready to edit format just by clicking on the item in the calendar.
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Four times as many clicks for a utility application that has no further improvements, only this annoying change from what was once a very efficient tool.
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ICal Publishing

I published an iCal from my Powerbook, backed up the file to my G4 moving the plist file and the iCal folder in application support. The G4 iCal no longer appears as a published iCal. What file in the library contains the iCal publishing info that I need to copy from my Powerbook to my G4 or do I need to unpublish the iCal on the Powerbook and then publish on the G4, assuming you can't publish the same iCal from two different sources?
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Don't know about iCalX but you can do this without problem on .Mac..
Month view is limited by size but clicking on the day will show you that day and all events.

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Mikael,
I also used to sync to my Palm handheld. I used The Missing Sync. I still had the problem of colors changing. But, they just changed. The colors on my iPod touch calendar don't relate at all to the colors in iCal.
Since it occasionally happened with my Palm, I don't mind having to adjust the calendars. What I don't like is that there is no way, on the iPod, to change the colors. And a few of the frequently-used calendars have ended up with the same color on my touch.
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hi, i have a shared ical that is currently published from a iBook running osx 10.3 and ical 1.5.5, in a london time-zone with all the events set to Europe/London, the problem is these events happen in New York at the time they are entered on this iBook (i.e. publisher enters event1 at 3.00pm 02/02/08 - event1 is happening at 3.00pm EST not GMT).
The problem is the publisher responsibilities are being passed on to someone living in New York (OSX 10.4), if i export the .ics from the iBook and import to the new machine i am expecting to see all my events move 8 hours out!
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any help would be really appreciated!
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Ashish,
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Sorry, this might be long. I use Entourage primarily, with a Palm device; my husband uses iCal with a Palm device. I'm trying to figure out a way to get my calendar and his calendar syncing so that we can see each others' appointments.
Here's where i am now: Entourage syncs with iCal. I publish my iCal to www.icalx.com; he subscribes to that calendar (and vice versa.)
My question: I have my Entourage preferences set to have Entourage events override events in Sync Services, rather than merge (I was getting lots of doubled events before I chose this option.) If I download his calendar onto iCal on its own calendar (NOT on the calendar called "Entourage") will it either disappear (b/c Entourage events will override in the sync) or eat up my data in Entourage?
And...does anybody have any easier ways to do this? AppleTalk doesn't work and we got tired of exporting and emailing them to each other every morning to reflect updates. (Man, somebody should write an Apple Script to do that!) And I don't want to pay $99/year for a .Mac account just to do this.
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Heath

Entourage only syncs to iCal with the "Entourage" calendar. So, in iCal, you can have several other calendars in addition to the "Entourage" calendar, and Entourage will never touch them.
So, if you download your husband's calendar from icalx, you will not lose it when Entourage syncs w/ iCal.
Also, you will be able to publish your "Entourage" calendar to icalx (via iCal) and he will be able to subscribe to it in iCal no problem.
However, it is going to be more work for you b/c you can't set iCal to subscribe to a calendar and have that same subscribed calendar sync w/ Entourage. Out of the box this option isn't available.
So, as far as free options go, you could:
1) Use iCal for calendaring.
2) Manually drag in the .ics file into Entourage each time.
3) Create an applescript to assist with this (one idea would be create a "husband" category in Entourage, and use an applescript to import the .ics, assigning it the "husband" category. Each time you import a new .ics file the applescript deletes the old items in the "husband" category).
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Ical published but cannot edit

Hi. I have just upgraded to Tiger and want to publish all my calendars together so my husband can access them at work, adding information/appointments as he needs, to one document.Ihave two Probs. (1)- When I publish the calendars together in a group each one is legible in the calendar but they do not appear in their designated colors; all info on cal. comes in blue blocks.How can I get it to publish with corresponding colors? (2) Most importantly : I want my husband to be able to edit the calendar at his work place- I want to see his new updates and he mine- yet we are unable to edit the cal., either at our 'View' url or our'Subscribe' url. I am missing something here big time. I would love some help, as I am fit to be tied. Thanks alot, D

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is it just me, or is there something deficient about the whole 'publishing iCal' thing? I have some questions:
1. Why isn't my calendar available through my .Mac account?
2. Why can't I publish my calendar, password protect it, and then view it from a browser?
3. Why can't I add events to my calendar from the web version?
If anyone can help me out with these issues, I'd truly appreciate it...otherwise, I'll be looking to get my .Mac subscription money refunded :-((
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I'm having the same problem, so I offer no help.
I have seen somewhere that its possible to use iWeb to setup a read-only access to the iCal calendar.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4910136&#4910136
What I expected was to have like the Calendar in Hotmail, but with the ability to use iCal also. But no luck yet.
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I've tried changing the color for my Work calendar in iCal multiple times. I've done it on my iPad, iMac and finally at the iCloud website. Each time I try to change it, it defaults to purple. Any ideas about this? Thanks in advance.

I just ran into this and it's maddening. I've had the same color Work calendar for years (green), and now it's purple and won't stay green.

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The "Help" file gives the wrong information. It says to click the "Info" button in the bottom right hand corner, etc., (see text below), but there is no such thing.
By chance I discovered that if you click on a calendar and then use "Get Info" a window opens that allows you to change the color of that calendar.
It states:
Changing a calendar’s color
You can change the color of any calendar in your Calendars list. (Changing a calendar’s color also changes the color of its events.)
To change the color of a calendar:
Select the calendar in the Calendars list.
Click the Info button in the bottom-right corner of the iCal window to open the calendar’s Info window.
Choose a new color from the pop-up menu in the top-right corner of the Info window.
To customize the color, choose Other, and then make your color selections in the Colors window.

Simple ... once you know how. Select the calendar you want to change and "Get Info" on it. That will bring up a dialog box where you can change the color, and some other parameters.
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I have two devices that sync with my iCloud account, a Macbook Pro and an iPhone 5. I primarily use iCloud to sync my calendar, notes, and reminders.
By some reason when I got home from work last night, the color of every calendar in iCal (on the Macbook Pro) and in the calendar app (on the iPhone) kept changing color by itself! I have 5 different calendars (Home, School, Work, Homework, Possibility) and each one usually has its own color. But for some reason, the "Work" calendar changed color from blue to orange on the iPhone without me doing anything. It changed right in front of my eyes. I then clicked on it and manually changed the color to red. Then it was red for some time, but on the MacBook Pro it was purple!
It is very frustrating as it kills the purpose of having multiple calendars. I have checked for software updates on my MacBook Pro and my iPhone 5, nothing there. I have restarted the MacBook Pro and I have restored the iPhone 5, nothing there.
I have also unchecked every calendar, and checked them one by one to see how they interact with each other, but that does not matter. Even if only calendar is checked, it still changes color whenever it feels like it. As a matter of fact, all the colors don't even match the ones on the MacBook Pro and the ones on the iPhone 5. They are changing by themselves, and they are changing on both devices, ignoring both me and the other device.
I spoke with Apple yesterday for about 2-3 hours, including a senior advisor, and they had no clue how to solve it.
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Hey all try this out cause this is what worked out for me
I have been having my "work" ical switch back and forth between green and purple and it was annoying so here is what I did.
I turned off my icloud from my iphone, "deleting" everything in my ical on my phone. THIS IS A CRUCIAL STEP. It will prevent your phone or pad from constantly updating and making sure your faulty calendar is still available.
Next I went to my ical on my laptop and EXPORT my "Work" ical to my desktop. I created a "New Calendar" titled "Work1" and then IMPORTED my "Work" ical into "Work1." I now have BOTH "Work" and "Work1" on my ical loading up to icloud AFTER you REFRESH by right clicking on your calendars and selecting REFRESH. Next you need to go tohttps://www.icloud.com/#calendar and LOGIN. You will now have acess to your icloud and fiddle around with it. BOTH "Work" and "Work1" should be present now. Now in the bottom left it says EDIT. Click and then DELETE your "Work" ical. You can then EDIT the name of "Work1" to be "Work." IT should now be updated and your faulty "Work" or whatever is now removed.
LASTLY, go back to your iPhone or iPad and TURN ON your iCloud. Your iCal will restore and no more faulty changing colors. Best of luck!
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I have the same problem. I have the custom colors on my mac and icloud.com, but the custom colors aren't showing on my iPhone or iPad. I'm using iPhone 5s and iPad Air.
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