Article updated on 28 April, 2009

This article describes how access to AXIGEN collaboration suite can be defined for Apple's iCal client.

The newly introduced support for iCal, available with the AXIGEN 7.1 release, provides new methods for accessing the collaboration facilities that are built-in into AXIGEN.

For a full understanding on the iCal support facilities, we recommend on first accessing the following KB article, alongside our online documentation point.
Prior to continuing with this article make sure that you have enabled the iCal support into AXIGEN.

This article is intended as a quick summary of actions that can be configured using iCal and we will resume on subscription to the default local Calendar folder and another user's shared calendar alongside with publish access to one local calendar type folder.

Notes:

Apple's iCal application functions in a unidirectional protocol access meaning that you will have access at one time to:

• subscribed access to a Calendar type folder (read only mode)
• publishing mode access to a Calendar type folder (all event details on the server will be synchronized only from the client overriding any external added items such as the ones created via WebMail or other iCal based client)

For our process we will assume Example Org as our local organization with two users John Doe <jdoe@example.org> and Laura White <lwhite@example.org> and that our server address is our.server.address.
While these examples make use of HTTP based definitions you can update these details as to suit HTTPS for security reasons.

1. Opening user default folders in read-only mode (Subscribe)

As user John Doe, we can open our local Calendar folder in a red-only mode as follows:




Selecting to subscribe to a new URL will take the format:




You will be prompted for authentication before continuing with the configuration process:




You can now tweak your calendar definition to your specifications:




The end result for our Calendar definition process will resemble:





2. Opening users' calendar type folder in publish mode
For our exercise we will consider a calendar type folder named Personal that is situated under "/myFolders" location.







For our new Untitled calendar we will select the Publish option:





The configuration details for our personal calendar will resemble:




After finishing up the configuration details and renaming the new Untitled calendar into something appropriate like "Personal" we will have full write access to this folder.



3. Opening other users' calendar type folders in read-only mode (Subscribe)

In this last section we will presume that our colleague Laura White has provided for John Doe access to the Calendar folder for reading purposes. All that remains is to define a publish type calendar for our user John Doe.

In this sense, we should select to Subscribe as in the section 1 of our article while updating the URL calendar path to match our new setup:
:



Next we will Finish the configuration process:





And the end result for the three calendars will be something along the lines:

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