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Sharing iCal calendars without WebDAV

ical100pxPublishing iCal calendars is most easily done via .Mac or on server using WebDAV.

What if you don’t have a .Mac account or access to WebDAV at your service provider or web host?

You can do it manually, using FTP, but it’s a pain. You have to hunt through iCal’s arcane naming system to find the calendar you want and them mess around with it a bit before uploading it.

Derek Jones has written a walk-through for publishing calendars which takes the pain out of the process by using Automator.

He goes through each step in creating an Automator action for this and includes some useful tips along the way. The post also includes links to two extra Automator actions that are handy in themselves.

This tip also appeared on macOSXHints.ical, sharing, publishing, calendar, automator, transmit, tips, webdav

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2 Responses to “Sharing iCal calendars without WebDAV”

  1. mike says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 2:24 am

    or use http://www.icalx.com. I publish my calendars through them. It’s like mac.com, but free!

  2. sjk says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 7:27 am

    You can do it manually, using FTP, but it’s a pain. You have to hunt through iCal’s arcane naming system to find the calendar you want and them mess around with it a bit before uploading it.

    Maybe I’m missing something, but why not just “File > Export…” it? Or, as a comment at MacOSXHints mentions, in iCal 2.0.3 there’s “Calendar > Publish… > Publish on: a Private Server”.

    I’ve been tinkering with iCalTalk for my all-Mac home LAN.

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