Calendars

2010-02-09T16:06:50Z

Sourinux: Adding some info for configuring Evolution

Each Amahi server has a calendar server in it. It is meant to share calendars among the people with access the server.

To publish or subscribe to a calendar in this server, you need three things:

#. A client calendar program (see below),
#. The publishing location or URL, which is: <code><nowiki>http://calendar/</nowiki></code>, and
#. The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, etc.

Note: some clients may require that the name have the ical extension, e.g. Home.ics; you may need to experiment.

Calendars can be created with widely available clients such as:

* Apple iCal, for Mac OS X.
* Mozilla Sunbird, for multiple platforms.
* Windows Calendar, for Windows Vista.
* ... and many others.

Technically, the HDA has a WebDAV server, commonly used for sharing online calendars and other files.

IMPORTANT: Only one calendar publisher is supported per calendar.

[[OutlookSync|Outlook synchronization support!]]

== Publishing URL ==

The publishing URL for the calendar is
<nowiki>
http://calendar/<CalendarName>
</nowiki>. If that fails to work, try <nowiki>http://calendar.yourdomain.com/</nowiki>.

The <nowiki><CalendarName></nowiki> part maybe Home, or Home.ics (try this last one first).

Some clients, notably Sunbird, require that the name of the calendar have the ical extension (which is '''.ics'''), e.g. Home.ics. You may need to experiment with this until it works. If you calendar client asks for a username and password, use your normal login details. Please add your experiences in this page.

Names with spaces are supported.

== Accessing the Calendar ==

The url for accessing the calendar is
<nowiki>
http://webcal
</nowiki>

The url for accessing the calendar selection page is
<nowiki>
http://hda/calendar
</nowiki>

The url for setting the calendar preferences page is
<nowiki>
http://webcal/preferences.php
</nowiki>

== Calendar Clients ==
Calendars can be created with widely available clients such as:

* [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/ Apple iCal], for Mac OS X: [[Image:ical2.jpg|Apple Ical]] [[Image:ical1.gif|Apple Ical]]
* [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning (a perfect calendar companion for Thunderbird)], for Windows, Mac and Linux. [[Image:sunbird.png|frameless]] [[Image:lightning.png|frameless]]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/calendar.mspx Windows Calendar], for Windows Vista. [[Image:vista-calendar.jpg|frameless]]
* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ Evolution], for Linux [[Image:evolution.png|frameless]]
For configuring Evolution to use your HDA, you may be interested by [http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?p=5782#p5782 this post].
* [http://http://www.kontact.org/ Kontact], for Linux [[Image:kontact.jpg|frameless]]
* ... and some others.

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