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Connect an External Internet Calendar


You can import external internet calendar events to the ELMA calendar. The events of the external internet calendar will be displayed in the ELMA calendar and in the Calendar portlet.
Consider an example of events import from Google calendar to ELMA calendar.
Open the calendar page and click Export – Internet Calendars. The Internet Calendar Management page will open (fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Internet Calendar Management
On the opened page, switch to the External Calendars tab (fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Internet Calendar Management. External Calendars
Follow the instructions to import events from Google Calendar.
Click Connect External Internet Calendar. The "Connecting an external Internet Calendar" window will open (fig. 3).
Fig. 3. Connecting an external Internet Calendar
Name * – name of the external internet calendar. This field is required.
Address (Url) * – URL of the external internet calendar. This field is required.
To save changes, click Save.
The external internet calendar will be added to the list of external internet calendars (fig. 4).
Fig. 4. External Calendars. The list of connected internet calendars
– edit an internet calendar. Click this button to open the "Connecting an external Internet Calendar" window (fig. 3).
– delete an internet calendar. When you delete an internet calendar, all its events are also deleted.
In the Calendar section, all the ELMA calendar events have the icon, and the external internet calendar events have the icon.

External Internet Calendar Events

Events of external internet calendars are available only for viewing. You can edit these events only in the internet calendar itself. After you have saved changes and updated the ELMA calendar page, the page will display the events with the changes you made.
Click an external calendar event to open its page (fig. 5).
Fig. 5. External calendar event page
External calendar event page is also available for viewing only.

Connect Several Calendars

You can connect several external internet calendars to ELMA calendar. All the events from these calendars will be displayed in ELMA calendar.
To connect several internet calendars, use the instructions for connecting an external internet calendar .
By default, ELMA synchronizes with external internet calendars every 5 minutes and updates the data.
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