spoonyfork's Journal: Publishing your own calendar online for free

Here's some simple steps to publish your calendar from Sunbird on a free WebDAV-enabled server:

1. Download Sunbird at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html, install it, and enter at least one event to seed the calendar.
2. Create an account at http://www.icalx.com/ noting your URLs for publishing, it will be used in step 3.
3. Open Sunbird and go to Tools -> Options... -> Publishing -> enter in a value like "http://icalx.com/public/spoonyfork/public.ics". This will be used as the default path to publish a calendar. The "public.ics" is arbitrary. Click Ok.
4. Still in Sunbird, select the Calendars tab view
5. Right-click on the calendar you wish to publish (e.g. "My Calendar") and select the option Publish Entire Calendar.
6. You will be prompted for your icalx.com username and password from step 2. Sunbird gives you the option to have this info saved which can be useful if not insecure.
7. This creates the ics calendar on icalx.com with the name you specified. Click Close.
8. Go to http://www.icalx.com, log in, and you should now see your public.ics in the Public section. Click the HTML view to see your calendar. This URL can now be given to others for HTML viewing or the .ics URL for remote calendar integration with Sunbird or other calendar software users.

HTML example: http://www.icalx.com/html/spoonyfork/month.php?cal=public
ICS example: http://www.icalx.com/public/spoonyfork/public.ics

No, this isn't automated yet but we're getting closer.

What I'd like to know is...

[Ethelred Unraed]

...is there a way for more than one use to collaborate on a WebCal or iCal calendar?

Our parish website has a calendar on it using PHPiCalendar. I currently maintain it through iCal, but I'd like to have it so that our rector can also add and delete things (he's got a WinXP 'puter). Any ideas?

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:What I'd like to know is...

[Ethelred Unraed]

more than one use

Should be "more than one user", of course.

Me st00pid.

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:What I'd like to know is...

[spoonyfork]

I may be over simplifying the question but the .ics files are just that, .ics files. You can import an .ics from a site like icalx.com into Sunbird, make modifications, then publish the modified one back to where you got it. I guess all users would use the same account on icalx.com.