Publish calendars privately to dotmac

If you wish to publish your calendars so others you select can subscribe, but you not want them to be public, you can do so using dotmac. (If you simply choose to publish your calendars normally to dotmac, they are not private.) First, create a new folder on your iDisk in the "Sites" folder (e.g., "calendars" - without the quotes). Then, when you publish your calendar from iCal, choose "Publish on: a private server." In the "Base URL" box type http://idisk.mac.com/yourid/Sites/foldername (replace "your_id" with your dotmac id and "folder_name" with the name of your new folder). Enter your dotmac login and password. Your calendar will be published to your Sites/new_folder. Now you can click on your published calendar and choose "Send Publish Email" from the "Calendar" menu in the menu bar at the top of your iCal screen. The person who receives your email should be able to subscribe to your calendar, but it will not be public on dotmac. Using this method no URL will be sent with the email to view the calendar on the web.

Good idea... but what I regret is that I cannot open this published iCal calendar using dotmac when I am on another location.

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It's a couple of click to publish a calendar to .MAC
But is there a way to password protect the published page so only authorised people can view it?
I tried to upload to my own server but cannot accomplish it...

Hi,
Don't know if your still trying to do this or not but I managed it using iWeb 08 and .MAC
The problem with the Apple solution is that you have to give out your .MAC user/password which is far from ideal. If you create a website to hold your calendar(s) using iWeb and give the site a username/password and then publish it to your dotmac account you can then publish your calendars using iCal to a private server (your dotmac account) and users will use the username/password you provided in iWeb NOT your .MAC ones!
To do the publishing bit in iCal simply select Private Server and type in:
http://idisk.mac.com/username/Web/Sites/yoursitename
Make sure you provide your .MAC username and password, this will be used by iCal to access your iDisk but users will use the username/password you provided in iWeb!
Not sure if it works with previous versions of iWeb, you only need iWeb to set up the site and make it password protected.
James.

No longer seeing Publish to private server after OSX/iCal upgrade

Hi,
After Upgrading to OSX Lion and updating Ical, I have come across a problem.
Excuse me if I do not get all the options and menu options correct, I'm using a dutch version.
I have been using Ical to publish the calendar of our business to our website for some time now, I publish it to an ftp server where a php script presents the calendar to the visitors. After the upgrade I no longer see the "publish to private server" option under publish. I now only see "share with everyone" and "share with invitees". It has since not been synchronizing. I hope someone knows a solution or can give me directions as to what I'm obviously not seeing.
Thanks.
Versions
iCal : 5.0 (1535)
OSX: 10.7.1

Calendars listed under your MobileMe login name (which reside on the MobileMe server) cannot be published to a web page. This facility is still available as before for calendars listed under 'On My Mac'.
MobileMe calendars can be shared privately to other MobileMe members (read-only or read-and-write); or publicly (read-only) to anyone with a CalDAV client - this includes iCal and Google Calendar (free subscription required for the latter).
Please see this page for more details:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/sharedcalendar.html

Publishing on private server causes lags

After I upgraded to Lion, iCal started to "freeze" every now and then. For instance, when entering a new entry, iCal suddenly stops being responsive to key entries, and after a while picks up and shows all I have typed previously. I did a clean install and didn't solve the problem.
The problem appears to be the fact that I have a few calendars published on a "private server" (as opposed to MobileMe), namely icalx. I tried to remove them and re-insert them but no luck. After tinkering for a while and reading other threads, it appears that the "freezing" behavior occurs only when the option "Publish changes automatically" is checked. In this case, it's as if iCal starts updating the remote version while I'm still typing. In any case, I observed that while updating any calendar the entire iCal freezes.
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To publish calendars without .Mac, you'll need to configure a WebDAV server. You can follow these somewhat outdated—but still applicable—instructions to do so under Mac OS X here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/11/10/osxwebdav/osxwebdav.html
[You could also choose to use a Windows OS box as a WebDAV server, using software which runs on that platform.]
Background information on the mod_dav patch for Apache under Mac OS X is here:
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav

Publish calendar on iCloud

Before iCloud I had a calendar that i shared on ical-mac.com (about the same as icalx) with other people.
That was very simpel. I selected that calendar in iCal and then choose for publish. Then I choose "own server" and filled in the wright data.
Any change I made in that calendar showed up in the published calendar. That was ideal!!
But now all my calendars are on iCloud and there is no possibilty to publish them!!
Does anyone knows a way to copy and synchronise a calendar to a locale calendar. Because when it is locale then you can publish the calendar.
Thanks for your help!!

I'm afraid that (assuming the behaviour is the same as MobileMe) you only have the two choices:
1. 'On My Mac', which can be published to a web page, but cannot be synced to the server and thus to other devices.
2. Under your login name, where you can sync but not publish to a web page. You can share privately to people who have an iCloud subscription, or publicly to anyone who has a CalDAV reader - these include iCal itself and Google Calendar; so it's a bit more of a bother for people to see it but it can be done.
This is the method for public sharing in MobileMe (probably iCloud is the same but I don't know)"
1. Control-click on the calendar and select 'Share'. In the pane which opens select 'Everyone'.
2. Control-click the calendar and select 'Get info' - you will see the URL. Copy it.
3. In your Google calendar, in the sidebar under 'Other calendars' click 'Add' and choose 'Add by URL'.
Paste the URL of your calendar in.
I did this and it worked, so far: however I added an event and this has not appeared when refreshing the calendar - it ought to. Google's Help says there is an issue with iCal subscriptions not updating, which is really helpful.
Mac users can subscribe in iCal: simply choose 'Subscribe' from the Calendar menu and paste the URL in. They can rename the calendar and should be sure to set updating to a suitable freqency as the default is 'Off'.

Publishing calendar changes automatically fails

Switching from iCal on 10.4 to iCal 3.3 on 10.5.3 I've hit a problem publishing an iCal calendar to a "private" server (not .mac). When I go to the "Change Location" dialogue and hit the Publish button, all is fine. But automatic updates fail (Code 30). So to keep my published calendar up to date I have to remember to go to "Change Location" and hit the Publish button, which is not so great.
On the server side I'm using PHP iCalendar. It all worked fine on 10.4.

I have the same problem! I publish a cal to my server (Apache WebDav) and it works when I publish it initially but subsequent saves do not get updated. I have to do it manually which is a PITA.
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How can I combine multiple icloud calendars into a single published calendar?

I have several calendars in Ical where I map my activities and schedules. Like many I need several calendars to categorise events.
Now, I'd like others to see when I'm free and when I'm unavailable. For this, I'd need to find a way to copy multiple Icloud calendars into a single one for publishing - and the published calendar would also have to sync to any update I make in the original calendar.
Any way to make this happen? Any third party app? Tried a couple - they were outdated and / or cumbersome.
If only there was a "smart calendar" tool in Ical …

It worked - up to the crucial point: after combining icloud calendars into one "on the machine" calendar, the latter is ready for going public. But of course - this public calendar will only contain the .ics files and will not sync for updates from the icloud calendars.
And that's what I want.
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How can I make my calendar private?

I was added into a hosted calendar on my mac, but now every time I want to put in an event to my calendar, everyone in this group can see it in their calendars too. How can I make all the events in my calendar private?

The Accounts tab of the Calendar preferences window.

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From the top... I am using iCal Version 2.0.5 (1069), Mac OS X 10.4.10, and The Missing Sync for Palm OS v6.0.1; also the MarkSpace Events and Tasks conduits to sync my Palm with iCal via iSync.
My goal is to publish a grouped calendar to icalx.com (which I've used for years).
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HOWEVER, most events in the graphical views (such as day or week) appear to have lost their end times, and thus stretch to 11:59 PM that day (which would be the default).
I have examined the .ics file that icalx.com is receiving from my local iCal app, and it appears that on many of the events there is no entry for DTEND (the date and time when an event ends). There is an entry for DTSTART. I experimented with changing the end time for an event in iCal, and then refreshing the published calendar. The result is that DTEND is now defined, and the event shows up properly. Simply entering the same event ending time in the end time field does not result in a proper ending time on the icalx.com calendar. Changing the end time in iCal by dragging the lower boundary of the event box DOES modify the time properly on the icalx.com calendar.
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OK, previously I went to the online version and clicked on the "Download" link in the left column, but I did not know if I re-published from the downloaded calender, would it replace/over-write the existing calendar or create a new.1.ics file.
I think I had tried this before, and the version I was updating, did not seem to update the version others had subscribed to, even though, I thought, I had re-published the same calendar.
Anyway, I have tested the "new" re-published calendars and they seem to be updating for the subscribers too.
Is there a way to make sure that I don't have any orphaned calendars? Some of the calendars have changed names and I was wondering if I am able to what is exactly sitting on my ME account. I can't find any of the calendars when I log into the account.
Any thoughts?
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Gary

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Thank you for any assistance.

Hi HWTheoB,
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B {display:none}</style>.
In addition, for the similar issue, you can refer to the following threads, although it is for SharePoint 2007, but you can get some hints from these articles:
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/c7f6070b-1c91-48bf-be4d-3b4dabd8338d
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http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/896d9aa2-2d98-42e2-8286-90b4a14ad31d
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Rock Wang
Regards, Rock Wang Microsoft Online Community Support

Publish calendar to mobileme no longer works

I've been publishing a calendar in iCal to mobileme for several years. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I noticed that the publishing was not working (the icon next to the calendar in iCal indicated an error). So I unpublished and republished. I was told it was successful and give me that window with a button to view the published calendar. When I do that, Safari goes to the site but prints a message, telling me "We're sorry but we cannot find the iCal you've requested. It's possible that it has been deleted or renamed."
I cut and paste the address into Safari - the URL that I was provided after a successful publish, and again got the same error. I've unpublished several times and republished, always successfully - so I was informed when the calendar was sent. But I always get the same error reported.
I've gone to my mobileme via browser to check my iDisk and other features - they all work. My iCal is even correct when viewed. It's just the published calendar that can't be accessed.
Anyone know what's going on or have a suggestion.
Thanks.
Well, I tried another search and have found a thread where users indicate the same problem. This seems to be a mobileme problem that I guess I'll have to wait until it is fixed.

Yep, same problem. Won't show up via browser and the embedded calendar won't display in iWeb. I've changed the calendar name, exported and imported (removing unsafe alarms), shortened the calendar name as to exclude any numerical or punctuation including spaces and nada. Next step is to friggin create a new calendar from scratch and re-enter all the dates/info...but I'd still like to know what the heck is going on.
Anybody have any other success besides creating a new calendar?
PS - Confirmed that establishing a new calendar clears up the problem. The fun of data entry for all those appointments...
Message was edited by: Tak-Seng

ToDO List doesn't show up on published calendar?HELP NEEDED

I'm new to iCal. I've checked off the correct box to publish Alarms and ToDo List. When I view the published calendar in a Safari window, I can't see the ToDo list anywhere....all I see is the Calendar and "This Month's Events" at the bottom of the page. I want to be able to view the ToDo list via the web, but how?
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The .Mac webview of calendars only supports appointments, not tasks. Your tasks are actually published, so if anyone subscribes with iCal, they could see the tasks, but the browser doesn't display them. If you have access to a server to run a custom web calendar app, you could try phpicalendar. This works on the same principle as the .Mac server & parses the iCalendar file for display in a web page. It does support task display.

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I will let you know if I hear back from Apple support on this. I have not seen this problem posted and right now cannot search the forums, so I apologize if this is a repost.

Hi Zargon,
So, you have four separate calendars published?
No... I actually only have ONE calendar published.
Make one group (iCal > File menu > New Calendar
Group), then move your four calendars into it, you
can then select the Group in your calendar list and
then publish it. The events of the calendars should
all then appear in a single published calendar.
Yes, the Birthdays calendar does take its data from
Address Book.
John M
And thank you for the insight on publishing all the data as a "GROUP".
That did indeed solve my issue!!!
Thanks.
Zargon

Issue with Outlook 2013-Notifications from published Calendar

Hi Every body,
I'm setting up for my little company published calendars on a Webdav servers (i'm using IIS on a 2003 server and Office 2013).
Publishing calendar works fine so far.
But i'm facing up a real issue:
When a user add other's published calendar the first user will also recieve Calendar alerts (appoitement alerts) from the added calendars (others users). Since i have arround 10 Shared calendar it's very frustating for users to be disturbed because of other's
calendars.
I've been looking for a way to disable those alerts but i can't find a way. on the Outlook settings.
(I also want to keep personal alerts up)
Please help me i'm becoming very frustaded.
Best regards
Fred

Well that's not the same calendar in outlook it's a realy different calendar that you get from your webdav server.
so i remind the whole process just to be clear =)
10 differents users are publishing their own outlook calendar on the webdav server.
So there is 10 differents ICS calendar into the server. But remember ICS calendar are copy from the originals calendar they need to be kept up to date.
Then some users pick the calendars they need from the server and add it into they own outlook.
in this way it appears as a whole different calendar in outlook.
When you publish a calendar from outlook,(right clikc onto the calendar => share => publish into webdav server) your have 3 ways to publish it, 3differents options. I can't translate properly since my version is in french. But just to make it short:
1)
The first way to publish it is not useful in my case because it doesn't provide enougth information into my ics calendar. about my appoitements.
2)
The second option looks good to me because it does'nt provide VALARM option Inside the ICS calendar.
But with this option the message inside appoitements are missing.
3)
The third option Include everything about the appoitement (and the VALARM). An thats actualy my problem.
And Yes i'm editing the ICS file that what make me understood how the whole process works.

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