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School iCal provider

This page details how to use the iCal provider.

What is it

iCal is an open standard supported by a number of Mobile and PC calendar applications for distributing calandar events. iPhone and Android can use iCal to display calendar events within the Calendar application.

The school iCal provider generates a iCal file from the St Mary & St Joseph’s calander:

http://www.stmaryjosephswool.dorset.sch.uk/website/calendar/

To setup follow these instructions

  1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
  3. Tap on Add Account… under the Mail section.
  4. Launch the Settings app, tap on the Mail, contacts, calendars button, and then tap on the Add account button.
  5. Tap on Other.
  6. Tap on Add Subscribed Calendar under the Other section.
  7. Enter or copy in the server location of the calendar. This is typically a web address that ends in .ics.
  8. Tap on the Other button, tap on the Add Subscribed Calendar button, and then enter the server location.

This allows users to subscribe generated iCal file can then be subscribed

schoolical.1537078057.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018/09/16 06:07 by mark