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Can I modify an iCal calendar from another machine ?
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Lebodde
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Oct 14, 2004, 06:36 PM
 
I have my iCal on my iMac at home. I have it set up so that my wife and I can access the same calendar from our separate accounts on the computer.

I also have the calendar published so I can read it at work which works well. Now I would like to be able to not only read it but also modify it from work. Is there a way to do that through .Mac maybe? (I finally got an OS X machine at work).

Thanks a lot for any help.
     
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Oct 14, 2004, 07:05 PM
 
not yet (short of somehow logging onto your machine at home and changing the calendar remotely). But I believe you'll be able to do this with the version of iCal that will come with Tiger.
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Oct 15, 2004, 06:34 AM
 
Originally posted by cpac:
But I believe you'll be able to do this with the version of iCal that will come with Tiger.
Is this true? Can you say more?
     
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Oct 15, 2004, 07:42 AM
 
You can. Mozilla has a calendar app that supports the .ics format and will allow you to import and edit the calendars.
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Oct 15, 2004, 07:54 AM
 
Originally posted by philm:
Is this true? Can you say more?
I'm just going based on reports/screenshots that appeared on rumor sites - I can't confirm any of it unfortunately.

I will say I think it's probably the single most requested feature, and I'd be surprised if they didn't add some sort of solution to the Tiger version.
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Lebodde  (op)
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Oct 15, 2004, 09:34 AM
 
Thanks very much, all.

OptimusG4. Where do I find this Mozilla calendar app? I sdon't see it in my "regular" mozilla. And once you edit it, how do you store the edited calendar back in its original location?

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Oct 15, 2004, 12:26 PM
 
Calendar: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

I think there is an option to republish the calendar using FTP or .Mac or webdav settings. Not sure, I'm at work and can't test, sorry.
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Lebodde  (op)
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Nov 11, 2004, 04:23 PM
 
I just thought of a possible easy solution...

What if I publish my main iCal calendar from home and subscribe to it at work. So all changes from home will be visible at work. Then I also publish one at work with all the stuff I add from here. At home I subscribe to that one with automatic updates of course.

So now I can add stuff either at home or at work and it will be visible in both places as long as both "layers" are turned on of course. The only thing I can't do is edit the "other" calendar.

That would get me most of what I need...

Any reason this shoudln't work?
     
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Nov 11, 2004, 06:24 PM
 
This will work precisely as you describe. It's something of a workaround, though, rather than an ideal situation.
     
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Nov 12, 2004, 07:26 AM
 
Is good if you have a mac for work!

Was looking at this exact problem yesterday as have published my calendar through .mac/isync at home, but as i use windoze at the office, i can't find a way of changing it and synching.

If u can access your .mac idisk on a windows machine by downloading idisk utility for windows, surely they can do sort something similar for iCal??
     
   
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