Prerequisites

• Make sure the url of the calendar you want to synchronize in ics format and that you have the required share settings: the calendar must be accessible externally from your calendar supplier.
• Some providers offer urls with a webcal:// prefix. As BlueMind is unable to handle these, you must edit them replacing "webcal" by "http".

Adding external calendars

To add an external calendar:

• go to parameter management > Calendar > tab "My calendars"
• in the "new calendar" form, set the calendar type to "external ics": an "ICS url" box is then shown with an icon indicating whether the url entered is valid or not (the icon that original appears is a red "warning" one as the field is empty):
  
• In the "ICS url" box, copy the address of the external calendar then leave the field to confirm (shift key or click an empty part of the page)

• the engine validates the url and fills in the "label" field if it has correctly accessed the calendar and its name is included:
  

  NB: the "label" field can still be edited, allowing you to customize the calendar's name:

  

• Click "Add" to create the calendar, which is added to your list of personal calendars:
  
  The external calendar has two specific links:

  • Reset data: allows you to restart synchronization in case of trouble
  • Launch synchronization: allows you to force synchronization and not wait for automatic synchronization
• To start a first synchronization, click "Launch synchronization". After that, the calendar will be synchronized automatically every hour approximately.
  Otherwise, an automatic synchronization will be performed but not immediately. You might have to wait for about then minutes.

The calendar is added automatically to your calendar's default view:

Editing external calendars

The only change you can make to an external calendar is its name:

• go parameters > Calendar > "My calendars" tab
• in the list of calendars, click the row of the calendar whose name you want to change to open the edit box:
  
• chage the calendar's name and tick to confirm (or simply exit the edit box) or cancel with "x".
  

Removing calendars

Removing a calendar from view

An external calendar can be removed from default view like other calendars, by clicking its color icon and then "Remove":

Deleting a calendar

To delete a calendar from your settings:

• go to parameters > Calendar > "My calendars" tab
• click the  icon at the end of the appropriate row

The calendar is deleted immediately and removed from view.

If this fails, reset local data   and/or remove the calendar from view (see previous paragraph).