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Using Zimbra with Other Tools
View, add, and delete events from iCal on the Mac
If you use a Mac, you probably want to have full read and write access to your calendar from iCal, the standard Mac calendar application. Instructions for doing this using CalDAV, a protocol for calendar synchronization, are provided on the [| Zimbra CalDAV wiki page]. [| Information on other desktop clients].
View, add, and delete events from your iPhone
If you have an iPhone, and you want to have full read and write access to your calendar from it, your best bet is to use [| Option 3 from the MCS IT Wiki page on iPhone configuration].
In my case I have turned off Mail and Contacts synchronization and only use this for Calendar synchronization (because I have all my mail redirected to Google's gmail, and I do all my contact synchronization through Apple's Mobile Me):
Also, I have selected my Zimbra public calendar as the default calendar for events on my iPhone:
[| Information on other mobile device clients]
How anyone can view the public calendar from their Google Calendar web interface
If you want to let someone view your public calendar from their web-based Google Calendar view, you first need to know the public URL of your public calendar (don't use the version that ends in .html). When they use their web browser to go to http://calendar.google.com, they should look at Other Calendars near the bottom left, select Add, and Add by URL:
Now they should enter the public URL for your public calendar; again, don't add the .html on the end (unfortunately the full string doesn't fit in this view, but again it is http://zimbra.anl.gov/home/[email protected]/CJpublicANLl):
They may also want to change the name of the calendar to something better than the default, which they can do in the Settings for their Other Calendars:
Your Zimbra public calendar will now show up as one of their Google calendars. However, be warned! Google seems to only refresh this information once per day, as noted in discussions [| here] and "http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=586c2d06ec88d65b&hl=en here, so their view of your calendar could be as much as 24 hours out of date in this view.
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The hard work for this page and its content was done by Chris Jacobsen [email protected]