- Working with Contacts and Schedules
- Adding Contacts to Address Book
- Creating Groups of Contacts
- Creating a Smart Group
- Exporting Contacts as vCards
- Importing a vCard into Address Book
- Mapping a Contacts Address
- Adding a To-Do in iCal
- Adding an Appointment in iCal
- Modifying an Event in iCal
- Switching Calendar Views in iCal
- Setting Up an Alarm in iCal
- Inviting Contacts to Events in iCal
- Putting Contacts, Bookmarks, and Calendars Online
- Searching Calendars in iCal
- Subscribing to an iCal Calendar
- Publishing an iCal Calendar
- Making Notes in Mail
- Turning an Email into a To-Do Item
- Syncing a PDA, an iPod, or a Phone with Your Mac
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Publishing an iCal Calendar
What can you publish? Well, you can choose to share your home or work calendar with your family or colleagues. Or you might decide to be the keeper of the birthdays among your friends and publish a calendar showing everyone’s special days. You can use your MobileMe account or a free web service to publish calendars, as you prefer.
)
Click the calendar you want to publish.
Choose Calendar, Publish.
Type a name for the published calendar.
Click the check boxes to publish changes automatically and to publish both the title and notes for an event (rather than just its title).Tip: Changing Your Mind
If you decide to stop publishing a calendar, click its name in the Calendars list and choose Calendar, Unpublish. iCal warns you that people will no longer be able to subscribe to the calendar; just click Unpublish to take your calendar offline.
Click the check boxes to publish alarms and to-do items.
Choose an option from the Publish on pop-up menu for where you’re publishing the calendar: using MobileMe or using an independent server.
If you’re using an independent server, enter its URL and your login name and password.
Click Publish.
)
)
Note: Becoming a Publisher
If you want to publish your own calendars but don’t have a MobileMe account, go to iCalExchange.com (icalx.com). It offers free access to the WebDAV servers you need to publish calendars.
Note: Automatic Updates or Not?
Publishing calendar changes automatically requires a constant online connection. Don’t choose this option if you use a dial-up Internet service because you might find your computer dialing in unexpectedly.