Subscribe to SeedCode Calendar from iCal

Subscribe to Served FileMaker calendars from Mac or Windows machines.

In addition to exporting our Calendar appointments and to-dos to iCal (such exporting is built into the Pro calendars) you can also subscribe to our Calendar using iCal (Mac) or Sunbird (Windows). Think of this as yet another way to publish read-only calendars online.

SeedCode Calendar in Apple's iCal SeedCode Calendar in Sunbird on Windows
Thanks to the vCal XSLT template from myFMbutler.com, you only have to make a couple small changes to SeedCode Calendar (2 new fields and 2 new layouts) and then place an .xls file on your FMSA Server. This is all documented in our free iCal Subscription Kit. This kit also comes with a version of myFMbutlers xslt style sheet: one specifically modified to work with our Calendar. Once youve set this up, you can subscribe to your calendar in various ways, even creating subscriptions for just one users items and/or one type of item. iCal will let you set the frequency with which youd like these items refreshed and iCal can even act as a gateway to other interfaces: letting you see your appointments in Dashboard or Konfabulator widgets, for instance. A list of a few compatible widgets is included in the PDF from our kit.	Special thanks to myFMbutler.com
iCal Subscription seen in a Dashboard Widget on MacOSX .

Demo

Checkout a live demo of SeedCode Calendar being served using FileMaker Server Advanced. Note, our demo only has sample data from July of 2003, so be sure you navigate back to that date once you've subscribed. You'll also notice that our subscription URL has a "find" in it: using this technique you can subscribe to any found set within the calendar. Here is the information you'll need:

Account Name: seedcoderss
Password: demo
URL: Subscribe to SeedCode Calendar

Requirements

Requires one of our Pro calendars as well as FileMaker Server with CWP (custom web publishing) enabled. That means Server Advanced for 8.5 or just Server for 9. For information on enabling CWP in FMSA, download this PDF from FileMaker, Inc. On the client, you'll need either iCal (Mac) or Sunbird (Windows) is required; fortunately both are free. Running Widgets requires a Mac with either Konfabulator or Mac OS 10.4x (Tiger).

Free Downloads

Our free iCal Subscription Kit contains everything you'll need to get started; download it from the Utilities section of our downloads page. This kit includes the .xsl sheet you'll need as well as step by step instructions for modifying our Calendar to get this up and running.

If you need to go further, you can look at the original version of myFMbutler's FileMaker to vCal XSLT kit and use it as a template for subscribing to other FileMaker Pro databases.