How to integrate UAA calendars in your personal calendar?

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Published on Sunday, 05 June 2011 17:50
Written by Samuel Burri

You can load the UAA calendars of your choice in your personal calendar tool (e.g. MS Outlook, Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird). To access a calenders you need to know its URL and which protocol your calendar tool uses to access remote calendars. Most tools support the iCalendar format. Others support Google's XML format. Below we explain in detail how to load a UAA calendar in Mozilla Thunderbird. But first, we list iCalendar and XML URLs of our calendars.

  • International Events
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/international.events.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/international.events.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC Asia
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.asia.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.asia.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC FR
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.fr.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.fr.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC DE
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.de.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.de.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC IT
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.it.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.it.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC NL
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.nl.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.nl.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC ES
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.es.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.es.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC SE
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.se.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.se.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • LUC CH
    • public xml url: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/luc.ch.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/luc.ch.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
  • UAA Council (internal meetings and calls)
    • public xml url:  https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/council.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic
    • public ical url: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/council.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

 

 

The following tutorial explains how to integrate the UAA calendar "international events" in Mozilla Thunderbird using the calendar add-on Lightining.

1) Make sure to have the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird (www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird) installed.

2) Install the Mozilla add-on Lightning that brings calendar functionality to Thunderbird.

3) Open the calendar view (Menu: Events and Tasks > Calendar)

4) Click with the right mouse button in the left panel below "Calendar" and choose "New Calendar ...".

5) In the following menu, choose "On the Network" and press "Next".

6) Choose "iCalendar", enter the iCal URL (e.g. "https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/international.events.uaa%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics" for the calendar international events) from the calendar of your choice into the field "Location", and press "Next".

7) Choose a name for the calendar that you import, customize the other options according to your preferences, and press "Next".

8) Confirm the newly created calender by pressing "Finish".

9) The entries from the newly integrated UAA calendar are now visible if the calender is activated (illustrated with a tick) in the left panel.