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sands

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Dec 15, 2008
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Hi,

Wondering if you could help me. Working in an office where we'd like to share a calendar which we can all see and edit but keep some of the other calendars private. On macs and no microsoft exchange server. Any advice? Can either use Entourage or Ical.

Thanks,
Sandra
 
Do you happen to have a Mac with Mac OS X Server on it handy? If you do, then this is very easy, especially with Leopard Server. All that's needed is to configure iCal Server to share only the desired calendars.

If you don't, then... I believe it's still doable but it's a lot harder.
 
Hi,

Thanks for your reply. We don't have the Mac OSX Server I'm afraid. Would you be able to help me with the more difficult way of doing it? I can't believe there's not a simple answer to sharing and editing a calendar between two macs!

Thanks again,
 
Step #1 is to get the open source Calendar Server from Mac OS Forge, here. Unfortunately, no binary packages of it exist yet, so you'll have to compile it from source to get it running.

Step #2 is to configure it, once it's set up. Directions for how to do that are on the same page as above/
 
About sharing calendars
You can share your calendars with other people to show them what you’re doing or to let them know when you are available. There are two basic ways to share your calendars or calendar information.

You can publish a copy of your calendar on the Internet.
This way, anyone can view it using a web browser or subscribe to it using iCal.

Publishing a calendar places a copy of the calendar on a web server, at a specific URL. Published calendars are “read-only,” and can’t be changed by anyone who subscribes to them. You can publish your calendar on your .Mac iDisk or on a private WebDAV-enabled server. (A WebDAV-enabled server is necessary to publish and share calendar data.)

If you publish on .Mac, anyone you send the URL to can view your calendar using a standard web browser. They can also use iCal to subscribe to your published calendar. To publish your calendar on .Mac, you need a .Mac membership. To sign up, click .Mac under Internet & Network in System Preferences.

If you don’t have a .Mac account, you can publish your calendar on a private WebDAV server (for example, on a server where your personal webpage is). Other users can use iCal to subscribe to the calendar you published, but they won’t be able to view your published calendar using a web browser.

■ Publishing your calendar on the Internet

You can export a calendar.
This allows you to send calendar with all its events to someone else who can then import it onto their computer.

If you export your events and then import them on another computer, the imported events can be edited. However, if the events are changed on the second computer, it won’t match the originally exported calendar.

■ Exporting and importing iCal information
■ About calendar standards

You can find it in iCal under Calendar > Publish. For more information, search iCal's help for "publish".
 
Hi,

Thanks, yes the publishing doesn't allow us to edit which is a problem. I'm not quite sure how to download that open source calendar thing as it looks really complicated.

Do you know much about caldav? I'm not sure I know much about it, but would this work?

Thanks again for all your help, really do appreciate it!
 
Hi,

Thanks, yes the publishing doesn't allow us to edit which is a problem. I'm not quite sure how to download that open source calendar thing as it looks really complicated.

Do you know much about caldav? I'm not sure I know much about it, but would this work?

Thanks again for all your help, really do appreciate it!
CalDAV is a protocol for enabling this very task. It needs a server to make it work, though. Here's a page you might find useful: List of CalDAV server implementations
 
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