Section 99. Publish Your iCal Calendar

99. Publish Your iCal Calendar

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

30 Set Up Networking Manually

45 Sign Up for .Mac

SEE ALSO

100 Synchronize Your Information Using .Mac

iCal lets you publish any one of your calendars to a central server so that others can see what your schedule is and plan their own events accordingly . You can publish your calendar to .Mac if you have a .Mac account; other .Mac users can then subscribe to your calendar on the .Mac server. If you have a WebDAV server on your corporate network, you can publish your iCal calendar to that server, eliminating the need for .Mac in your calendaring.

.Mac even provides the ability for you to publish your calendar to a static web-based calendar on a web server on which you're able to post web pages. This form of the calendar is visible to anybody with a web browser, whether they're on a Mac or not. When you publish a calendar to .Mac, iCal tells you both the URL that others must use to subscribe to your calendar in iCal, and the URL for viewing the calendar with a standard web browser.

1.	Display the Publish Configuration Dialog Box Select Publish from the iCal Calendar menu to display the Publish configuration dialog box.
2.	Specify the Calendar Name Enter a descriptive name for your published calendar. You can leave it as the default (the same name as the calendar has in your local iCal window), or you can give it a more specific or appropriate name for the benefit of others.
3.	Select Where to Publish the Calendar You can publish the calendar either to .Mac or to any WebDAV server to which you have access. Select the destination for your calendar from the Publish calendar drop-down list.
4.	Publish the Calendar Click the Publish button at the bottom of the configuration dialog box to send your calendar to the specified server. 99. Publish Your iCal Calendar
5.	Note the URL of the Published Calendar iCal will report two URLs for the calendar you just published: the URL other users must use to subscribe to the calendar, as well as the URL for viewing the calendar in a web browser. Click Send Mail on the Calendar Published dialog box to create a new mail message that automatically includes both these URLs in it; all you have to do is fill in the recipients' names and click Send to email these URLs to the people who need to view or subscribe to your published calendar. TIPS You can send another email message later as well, if you want to tell more people about the location of your calendar. Select Send publish email from the iCal Calendar menu to bring up a new Mail message containing the calendar URLs. iCal lets you publish more than one calendar if you wanteach calendar you create (using the + button at the bottom left) can be shared, at your discretion. A shared calendar is denoted in the Calendars list by a "broadcast" icon to the right of the calendar's name.
6.	View a .Mac Calendar on the Web Click the Visit Page button on the Calendar Published dialog box to open the static version of the calendar in your web browser. Alternatively, right-click or Control+ click the name of a calendar in the Calendars pane in the iCal window and select View Calendar on .Mac from the contextual menu to open the calendar in your web browser.