A Brief User's Guide to Google Calendar
The Google Calendar displays all Smyrna Presbyterian Church events.
This document explains how to keep an updated copy of Smyrna Presbyterian Church events on your computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), cell phone, and/or iPod at all times – even when you are not connected to the Internet. And if you wish, the events from a SPC calendar can be displayed with other events from your personal calendar.
Available Calendars
Detailed Application-specific Instructions
Apple iCal – Mac:
1. From within iCal, choose “Subscribe” from the “Calendar” menu at the top of your screen.
2. Enter the full URL (listed above) to the desired iCalendar file in the “Subscribe to:” box and click “Subscribe”.
3. iCal will then download the calendar and bring you to a screen which allows you to give a title to that calendar. Check the “Refresh:” checkbox and select “every day” which will instruct iCal to check for updates to the calendar on a daily basis.
4. That’s it. Your new calendar will appear, and you can choose to show or hide it by selecting or deselecting the calendar’s title in the “Calendars” screen.
5. To synchronize this calendar to your portable device, make sure that your portable device is supported by Apple, open the iSync application, add the device to iSync, and press the “Sync” button.
Mozilla Sunbird – Windows/Mac:
1. Download and install Mozilla Sunbird (if you do not already have it installed).
2. From within Sunbird, choose “Subscribe to Remote Calendar” from the “File” menu at the top of your screen.
3. Select the “Remote” radio button and click “Continue”.
4. Select the “WebDAV” option and enter the full URL (listed above) to the desired iCalendar file in the “Location:” box and click “Continue”.
5. Name the calendar and select the colour you would like these events listed in, then click “Continue”.
6. Your calendar will be downloaded, and you can click “Done” to exit the wizard.
7. Finally, right click on your newly created calendar in the “Calendars” tab on the left, and click “Edit Calendar”. Select the “Read-only” option and then click “OK” to stop your calendar from trying to publish (and timeout) any modifications you attempt to make. 8. You can create additional calendars for your personal events, if you wish.
Google Calendar – Any computer with a web browser:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/calendar and sign in. If you do not have a Google Account create one using the link provided at the bottom of the page.
2. Click on “Manage Calendars” located at the bottom of the menu on the left.
3. Under Calendar Settings > Calendar click on the “Add Calendar” in the Other Calendars section.
4. Under “Add Other Calendars” click on the “Public Calendar Address” tab and enter the URL of the iCalendar file. For example, you would add the URL http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/calendar%40smyrnapca.org/public/basic.ics.
5. The new calendar will now appear and is accesible from the My Calendars menu located on the left hand side of the screen.
Microsoft does not support subscriptions. Outlook 2007 will allow users to subscribe to iCalendar files… until then, we recommend using one of the options listed above.