Publish tab

You use the Publish tab to upload a shared calendar file to the internet.

To publish a calendar, you perform the following steps:

1. In the Calendar to Publish entry box, enter the web location of the calendar.

   The format will resemble:

           www.example.com/calendars/public/MyEventsCalendar.ics

   This does not have to be any special calendar location, it just needs to be a location where a file can be FTP'd to.

2. Enter the Username for the ftp account.
3. Enter the Password for the ftp account.
4. Click the Publish Now

   You will be asked to enter a starting and ending date. All items on the calendar that match the filter criteria and between the starting and ending dates will be packaged up into an industry-standard iCalendar file (.ICS extension) and FTP'd to the location on the web.

   If the starting date is omitted, all calendar items into infinity past will be included. If the ending date is omitted, all calendar items into infinity future will be included.

The resulting calendar can be subscribed to from iCal or Outlook by entering the file location in these programs. Or you can supply a link to the calendar in the form:
        webcal://www.example.com/calendars.public/MyEventsCalendar.ics

Clicking on the link will open their calendar program and ask if they want to subscribe to the calendar.

This feature can be used to publish a calendar of all performances for the season to your website. Patrons can subscribe to the feed and when you re-publish in the future with new performances, their calendar will be updated with the new performances as well.

It can also be used to publish work schedules for people. If they are subscribed they will also get all the changes in their personal calendars.