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This article shows you how to integrate an Outlook calendar so that it will dynamically push events into multiple areas of your platform.
In this Article
- Integrate vs upload
- Step 1: Login to your Outlook account on the web
- Step 2: Configure Outlook settings
- Step 3: Publish your calendar
- Step 4: Find and copy the .ics link
- Step 5: Paste the .ics link to connect the calendar in Calendar Manager
- Step 6: Allow time for the sync to complete
Connecting an Outlook calendar into Calendar Manager is a fast and efficient way to update events dynamically for your community. This way you can:
- flow events into your CMS to be displayed on any Composer page.
- insert events dynamically into the Messages module.
- push events to Mobile Apps.
Integrate vs upload
An integration initiates a one-way dynamic sync to flow events in from another calendar source to continually appear and update in Calendar Manager and anywhere you have linked that calendar using a Calendar Element. However if you are interested in single bulk upload of events, check out our article, "Add calendar events in bulk."
Step 1: Login to your Outlook account on the web
Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your account.
Step 2: Configure Outlook settings
- Click on the Settings gear in the top right corner.
- Select View all Outlook settings at the bottom.
Step 3: Publish your calendar
- Navigate to Calendar > Shared calendars.
- In the Publish a calendar section, choose the calendar you want to share.
- Select Can view all details in the second dropdown.
- Click Publish.
Step 4: Find and copy the .ics link
- After publishing, you will see two links: an HTML link and a .ics link.
- Copy the .ics link.
Step 5: Paste the .ics link to connect the calendar in Calendar Manager
1. Next, open up Calendar Manager in Finalsite. Click the New Calendar button on the Dashboard.
2. Set Calendar Type to Live iCal, and paste the copied URL into the Live URL field before clicking the Create button at the bottom of the window.
Now, events from Outlook will automatically populate the calendar. As new events are added into Outlook, they'll be pulled into the Finalsite calendar, as well.
Step 6: Allow time for the sync to complete
iCal refresh rates are based on the file size of the iCal feed coming over (in other words, how many events have been created on that calendar). This is explained in the article Using iCal feeds to synchronize multiple calendar systems.
The sync rates are:
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For a calendar 0 - 500 kilobytes: hourly
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For a calendar 500 kilobytes - 1.5 megabytes: nightly
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