Kingsbridge Kingfishers

iCalendar support for KKSC Diary now available

Wednesday 30 November 2011, author: Fear of Mice

Our Diary page now contains an icon to allow you to subscribe to our diary of club events.

If you use an electronic or online diary such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, OS X, Android, Outlook or Thunderbird/Lightning, you can subscribe to the link and have it automatically synchronised.

Here's how

Apple Devices

1. Open "Settings"
2. Open "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
3. Tap "Add Account…"
4. Tap "Other"
5. Tap "Add Subscribed Calendar"
6. In the server field, type in the url (http://www.kksc.co.uk/ical)
7. Tap "next"

You might need to manually enable the subscribed calendar in the Calendar app. Open the app and tap the "calendars" button, tick the subscribed calendar and tap "done".

Google Calendar

1. Log into your Google Calendar
2. Click the twistie on "Other calendars" and choose add by url
3. Type in the url (http://www.kksc.co.uk/ical)
4. Click refresh

It takes a few moments for the calendar to pull down into Google Calendar...

Android

Your Android device will sync the KKSC entries in your Google calendar (see above)

Thunderbird/Lighning

Thunderbird with the Lightning Calendar plugin:

1. Right-click on the left-hand pane and choose "New Calendar"
2. Click "on the network" and click "Next"
3. Select iCalendar (ics)
4. Enter the url (http://www.kksc.co.uk/ical) and click "Next"
5. Give your calendar a name (show alarms and email are not required)
6. Click "Next" then "Finish"

Outlook

Outlook users should follow the instructions supplied here

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