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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):

Iphone zimbra mail contacts off.png

Also, I have selected my Zimbra public calendar as the default calendar for events on my iPhone:

Iphone default calendar.png Iphone default calendar2.png

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: Gcal add by url.png


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):

Gcal add by url2.png


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:

Gcal name embed.png


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once per day, as noted in discussions here and here, so their view of your calendar could be as much as 24 hours out of date in this view.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]

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