Subscribed calendars

A subscribed calendar is a calendar someone publishes as an address (often ending in .ics, or starting with webcal://), which you follow in Kantoor. Its events appear in your calendar and in your calendar apps. You cannot change them: they come from where the calendar is published.

Examples: public holidays, a school or sports club calendar, or the calendar feed of a Balie booking resource.

Subscribe

1. Open Settings, Calendars.
2. Under Subscribe to a calendar, paste the Address of the calendar. It may start with webcal:// or https://.
3. Optionally fill in a Name (it Defaults to the website’s name) and choose a Colour.
4. Under Refresh, choose how often Kantoor looks for changes.
5. Leave Its events make me busy when others look for a time ticked for real appointments; untick it for a calendar that only informs you, such as public holidays.
6. Choose Subscribe. Kantoor says Subscribed. The first refresh has started.

Settings: Calendars

The address is kept secret: after you save it, Kantoor only shows the website’s name (From …), never the address.

Your subscriptions

Your subscriptions shows each calendar with its state: up to date, refreshing, waiting for the first refresh, paused or not refreshing, and when it was last refreshed and how many events it has.

• Refresh now looks for changes at once.
• Pause stops the automatic refresh; Resume starts it again.
• Change lets you rename it, change the colour or how often it refreshes, or enter a new address (New address (leave empty to keep the saved one)).
• Remove ends the subscription; its events disappear from your calendars.

When a refresh fails, Kantoor shows the reason, for example The feed took too long to answer., keeps the events it already had, and tries again later by itself.

Limits

• Only https addresses on the public internet, and only calendars that need no login.
• At most 25 subscriptions, 5,000 events per calendar, 5 MB per calendar.
• Tasks in a feed are ignored.