Overview: iCal subscribe and publish

While you can't synchronize a 25Live® calendar and an Apple® iCal® calendar, you can:

• Subscribe to a 25Live calendar from within iCal.
• Publish an iCal calendar to 25Live Publisher.

This topic explains how subscribing and publishing work. For an explanation of how to subscribe to a 25Live calendar, see Subscribe from iCal. For an explanation of how to publish an iCal calendar to 25Live Publisher, see Publish an iCal calendar.

Subscribe to a 25Live calendar

In iCal, you can subscribe to any:

• Non-published 25Live calendar that you can edit.

  A non-published calendar is any calendar in your account to which you have edit rights that you haven't published to the web.

• Published 25Live calendar that you or anyone else published to the web, as long as the calendar is not password protected.

Subscribe to non-published calendars that you can edit

Calendars that you can edit include calendars that:

• You created.
• Someone shared with you and gave you permission to add, edit, and delete events.

When you subscribe from iCal to a non-published 25Live calendar that you can edit:

• You'll be prompted for your 25Live Publisher sign in email address and password.
• Only events that belong to the calendar you subscribe to will appear on the iCal calender. Events from other calendars that are mixed in to the calendar you subscribe to will not appear in iCal.
• If you created the calendar you subscribe to, events marked Private on the 25Live calendar will appear in iCal.
• If the calendar you subscribe to is shared with you, events marked Private will not appear in iCal.

To learn more about private events, see Private events.

Subscribe to calendars published by you or anyone

When you subscribe from iCal to a published 25Live calendar, you can choose to subscribe to all events you see on the calendar, including events from other calendars that are mixed in to the published calendar.

Or, you can subscribe only to events on the published calendar itself.

Usually, when events from other calendars are mixed in to the published calendar, you'll see a mix-in control like this to the right of the calendar:

In this example, Diva City Opera is the published calendar. Events from the Don Giovanni rehearsals calendar are mixed in to the Diva City Opera calendar.

You can subscribe to this calendar so that your iCal calendar contains events from both the Diva City Opera and Don Giovanni rehearsals calendars or just the Diva City Opera calendar.

For details about how to subscribe to a published calendar with or without mix ins, see Subscribe from iCal.

Publish an iCal calendar to 25Live Publisher

You can publish any calendar you create in iCal to 25Live Publisher. As part of the publishing process, you'll be asked to provide your 25Live Publisher sign in email address and password.

When you publish, the publishing process makes everything in the 25Live calendar match the iCal calendar.

This means that:

• If you publish an iCal calendar to an existing 25Live calendar, all the events on the 25Live calendar are deleted and replaced by events from the iCal calendar.
• If you publish an iCal calendar to 25Live Publisher and then make changes to the published version in 25Live Publisher, next time you publish from iCal, those changes will be deleted.

You don't have to worry about duplicating events on the 25Live calendar. Each subsequent time you publish from iCal, existing iCal events on the 25Live calendar are left alone, unless you updated the events in iCal.

After you publish the iCal calendar to 25Live Publisher, you'll find the published calendar along with other calendars you've created in your 25Live calendar list.

See Best practices for publishing iCal calendars to 25Live Publisher for some publishing tips.