Publish non-MobileMe-account protected iCal calendars
Oct 20, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: fabrizio
Oct 20, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: fabrizio
Everybody knows that it's possible to publish an iCal calendar to MobileMe. This way, the calendar will be accessible by anybody. It's also possible to protect the calendar with a password. The downside is that you have to give out your MobileMe login info if you want to share this calendar with somebody.
This hint explains how to publish a password-protected calendar to MobileMe, using a different login. The first step is to build a password-protected website using iWeb. In the Site tab of the iWeb inspector panel, you can set a name and password for accessing the site. This login can (and should) be a different one than the MobileMe account. Let's name this site SharedCal. You can just add a single template page to the site and then publish it to MobileMe.
Now, we have to publish our calendar. These are the steps:
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
This hint explains how to publish a password-protected calendar to MobileMe, using a different login. The first step is to build a password-protected website using iWeb. In the Site tab of the iWeb inspector panel, you can set a name and password for accessing the site. This login can (and should) be a different one than the MobileMe account. Let's name this site SharedCal. You can just add a single template page to the site and then publish it to MobileMe.
Now, we have to publish our calendar. These are the steps:
- Select the calendar you want to publish from the Calendars list in iCal. Let's say that this calendar has the name MyCal.
- Choose Publish from the Calendar menu. Select the changes, subjects, alarms and to do options you want.
- Click Publish on a web server to enable that option.
- In the URL field, enter http://idisk.me.com/username/Web/Sites/SharedCal/, where username is your MobileMe account. Enter your MobileMe username in the Login field. Enter your MobileMe password in the Password field.
- Click Publish.
http://web.me.com/username/SharedCal/MyCal.ics
They will then be able to subscribe to this calendar using iCal, entering the website username and password we set in iWeb.
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]
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