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= Calendars =Each HomeHDA server The HDA has a calendar Calendar server included([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV WebDAV]) enabled by default in Amahi 6 (Ubuntu 12.04.x).
The publishing URL for This capability is currently broken in Amahi 7 ([https://bugs.amahi.org/issues/1339 Amahi bug 1339]) and greater. For Amahi 7 (Fedora 19) and future Amahi releases, you will need to install the Amahi [https://www.amahi.org/apps/calendar isCalendar] application.
<pre><nowiki> http://calendar/</nowiki></pre>Using client software you can publish and also subscribe to published calendars on your HDA.
This server is meant To publish or subscribe to share calendars with other people who can access the a calendar in this server, you need:# A client calendar program# The publishing location or URL# The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, etc.
Eventually we will have a web interface to the calendar server (accessible through the http://calendar/ URL itself), however, for the time being, you need to use a c
alendar program to publish and subscribe as well as set and delete appointments in calendars in the server.
= Publishing Calendars =To publish or subscribe In addition, you can also install a "client" application to a calendar browse calendars in this serveryour HDA, you need three thingslike [http://www.amahi.org/apps/icalendar iCalendar]
1Calendars can be created with widely available clients such as:* [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/ Apple iCal] for Mac OS X.* [http://en.wikipedia. A client org/wiki/Mozilla_Sunbird Sunbird] ([[Mozilla_Sunbird|Tutorial]])* [http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/calendar program/ Thunderbird - Lightning Calendar]* [http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ MS Outlook]* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Calendar Windows Calendar] for Windows Vista.* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_%28software%29 Chandler]* ... and many others.  Technically,the HDA has a WebDAV server, commonly used for sharing online calendars and other files. <u>IMPORTANT:</u> Only one calendar publisher is supported per calendar.  1'''NOTE:''' Some clients may require that the name have the ical extension, e.g. Home.ics; you may need to experiment. == Publishing URL ==The publishing location or URL, which for the calendar is <u>Fedora</u><br /><nowiki>http: //ical/<CalendarName></nowiki>.  <u>Ubuntu</u><br /><nowiki>http://calendar/<CalendarName></nowiki>.  If that fails to work, andtry: <u>Fedora</u><br /><nowiki>http://ical.yourdomain.com/<CalendarName></nowiki>.  <u>Ubuntu</u><br /> 1<nowiki>http://calendar.yourdomain.com/</nowiki>.  The calendar <nowiki><CalendarName></nowiki> part maybe Home, or Home.ics (try this last one first). Some clients, notably Sunbird, require that the name of your choicethe calendar have the ical extension (which is '''.ics'''), typically e.g. Home.ics. You may need to experiment with this until it works. If you calendar client asks for a username and password, John, Kids, etcuse your normal login details. Please add your experiences in this page. Names with spaces are supported== Accessing the Calendar ==We have one application called [* See Notehttp://www.amahi.org/apps/icalendar iCalendar]that needs to be installed if you want to browse calendars in your hda via a web interface. Please note that this app is a '''read only''' client. It cannot create calendar entries. The url for accessing the calendar is: <nowiki>http://icalendar</nowiki> The url for setting the calendar preferences page is: <nowiki>http://icalendar/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: attachment<br />[[Image:ical2.jpg attachment|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. attachment<br /> [[Image:sunbird.png |frameless]]<br/> attachment[[Image:lightning.png|frameless]]* [http://wwwen.microsoftwikipedia.com/windows/products/windowsvista/featuresorg/detailswiki/calendar.mspx Windows_Calendar Windows Calendar], for Windows Vista. attachment<br /> [[Image:vista-calendar.jpg|frameless]]:Also see [[OutlookSync|Outlook synchronization support!]]* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ Evolution], for Linux attachment<br /> [[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://www.kontact.org/ Kontact], for Linux attachment<br /> [[Image:kontact.jpg* ... and some others. Pretty soon there will also be web-based interfaces.|frameless]]
=== Note ===
[*] Some clients, notably Sunbird, may require that the name of the calendar have the ical extension, e.g. Home.ics. You may need to experiment with this until it w
orks. Please add your experiences to this page or add links to it.
= Technical Details =Technically, every HDA server has a WebDAV server, commonly used for sharing online calendars as well as other files.[[Category: Apps]]
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