4.5 Publishing Personal Calendars on the Internet

You can select to publish personal calendars or your free/busy schedule to the Internet. When you publish a personal calendar to the Internet, that calendar can then be viewed by anyone on the Internet. When you publish your personal calendar, it is published to your system’s Calendar Publishing Host. For additional information about your Calendar Publishing Host, see your GroupWise administrator.

The ability to publish your personal calendar can be enabled and disabled by your GroupWise administrator. If your GroupWise administrator has disabled the ability to publish personal calendars, this option is not displayed in the GroupWise client.

4.5.1 Publishing a Personal Calendar

You cannot publish the main GroupWise Calendar; you can only publish a personal or shared calendar.

NOTE:Published calendars display as part of a Web address for identification. Special characters like “!”, “@”, “#”, “{“, should not be used as part of the calendar name, because it might cause the calendar to display incorrectly in the Calendar Publishing Host.

  1. In the Calendar Folder List, right-click the calendar you want to publish, then click Publish.

  2. Select Publish.

  3. Select the time period.

    Select Entire Calendar to send your entire calendar.

    or

    Select Previous to send part of your calendar. If you select Previous, you must specify a range of days to send.

  4. Select Include Private Items to include private items.

  5. Select Include Attachments to include attachments.

  6. To send someone a link to your published calendar, click Send Publish Link.

    If you click Send Publish Link, a new email message is opened with a link. Select who you want to send the message to, then click Send.

  7. Click Save, then click Close.

4.5.2 Modifying a Published Calendar’s Settings

  1. In the Folder List, right-click the published calendar, then click Publish.

  2. Modify any publish options.

    For more information, see Step 3 through Step 6 of Section 4.5.1, Publishing a Personal Calendar.

  3. Click Save, then click Close.

4.5.3 Unpublishing a Calendar

When you unpublish a calendar, the published calendar no longer displays in the list of published calendars on the Calendar Publishing Host. If anyone has subscribed to your calendar, they no longer receive updates to your calendar and they might receive an error message.

  1. In the Folder List, right-click the published calendar, then click Publish.

  2. Deselect Publish, click Save, then click Close.

4.5.4 Publishing Your Free/Busy Schedule

Free/busy information in GroupWise can be published to allow access for other users. The free/busy information can be accessed by other GroupWise users or any other users who can accept a .ifb file type.

  1. On the main WebAccess page, click the Options icon Appointment view, then click Options.

  2. Click the Calendar tab.

  3. Select Publish my free/busy information.

  4. Click Send Free/Busy Publish Location.

    If you click Send Free/Busy Publish Location, a new email message is opened with a link. Select who you want to send the message to, then click Send.

  5. Click Save, then click Close.