Calendars, sharing and subscriptions

Besides your own calendar you can add more, share them, and pull in outside calendars by subscription or import. Everything lives under Settings → Calendar.

Add a calendar

1. Open Settings → Calendar.
2. Under Calendar Management, select Add calendar.
3. Give it a name and a colour, then create it. It appears in the Calendars list in the Calendar view, where you can show or hide it.

Share a calendar

• Right-click the calendar in the Calendar sidebar and choose Share calendar, or use Share in Calendar Management.
• Sharing hands out a calendar URL that others can add or subscribe to; the copy icon next to the URL copies it.

Change a calendar’s colour

Right-click the calendar in the sidebar and choose Change colour (or use the colour swatch in Calendar Management).

Subscribe to an external calendar

Select iCal Subscription, give it a title and the calendar’s URL (https://… or webcal://…), pick a colour, and save. A subscription is read-only and refreshes on its own; use the refresh action to pull the latest now. Edit or remove it from the same list.

Import a calendar (.ics)

Select Import Calendar and either upload a file (.ics) or give a URL. VNCmail+ previews what it found before creating the events, and deduplicates on the event UID so a re-import does not double up.

A few calendar settings

• Contact birthday calendar — show a virtual calendar built from the birthdays in VNCcontacts+.
• Enable tasks — add a Tasks view to the calendar toolbar for managing to-dos (due date, priority, completion) next to your events.
• Default view, Show week numbers, Show time in month view, Hide declined events and Event hover preview tune how the calendar looks and behaves.

See also

• Recurring events
• Invite people and RSVP
• Calendar views and the event form