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To publish or subscribe to a calendar, you need three things:
 
To publish or subscribe to a calendar, you need three things:
  
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# The publishing location or URL, which is: http://calendar/, and
 
# A client calendar program,
 
# A client calendar program,
# The publishing location or URL, which is: http://calendar/, and
 
 
# The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, Kids, etc.[* See Note]
 
# The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, Kids, etc.[* See Note]
  
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The publishing URL for the calendar is
 
The publishing URL for the calendar is
 
<nowiki>
 
<nowiki>
   http://calendar/
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   http://calendar/<CalendarName>
 
</nowiki>
 
</nowiki>
  
Eventually we will have a web interface to the calendar server (accessible through the <nowiki>http://calendar/</nowiki> URL itself), however, for the time being, you need to use a calendar program to publish and subscribe as well as set and delete appointments in calendars in the server.
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The <nowiki><CalendarName></nowiki>  
  
 
== Calendar Clients ==
 
== Calendar Clients ==

Revision as of 21:53, 2 July 2007

Calendars

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, you need three things:

  1. The publishing location or URL, which is: http://calendar/, and
  2. A client calendar program,
  3. The calendar name of your choice, typically Home, John, Kids, etc.[* See Note]

IMPORTANT: Only one calendar publisher is supported per calendar today.

Publishing URL

The publishing URL for the calendar is http://calendar/<CalendarName>

The <CalendarName>

Calendar Clients

Calendars can be created with widely available clients such as:

Note on Calendar named

[*] Some clients, notably Sunbird, may require that the name of the calendar have the ical extension 9whic, 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.