How do I mark events as private?

I can't find it either, so we are both stupid, or it doesn't exist in any obvious place.

I thought maybe it only worked with Calendar Server, but I tried via a calendar on Leopard Server, and I still don't see the option.

Anyone else?

Likewise. I have installed 10.5.3 on both my iMac and MBP and neither appear to have any "private" setting for calendar events. Not even new events.

Any guidance greatly appreciated.

Thanks

They forgot to add the config option in the caldavd config file... SIGH

On the server (I see no use of the private-flag in a local calendar) stop the ical Server. Edit the file

/private/etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist

by adding the following lines (regard the plist/xml-syntax!!!):

<key>EnablePrivateEvents</key>
<true/>

Restart the iCal Server. When you now add new events, you got a "private" checkbox.

I actually do need it to be available in a private calendar; I sync my iCal two-ways via Plaxo with my Outlook calendars, so need to preserve the Private flag.

Anyone got a fix that'll sort this out for me as I don't have Server, just the install on my iMac ad MBP?


Thanks

We had a heated discussion here already concerning this option 🙂

Keep in mind, that iCal is not even close to being an Exchange-client. The "pseudo-synch" which I do know of works using Entourage, which just syncs itself with Exchange and then meddles in the (purely local) iCal calendars. I guess to implement the "private events" feature you not only would have to change iCal but you would have to change Entourage as well.

So we are probably even two steps away from such a feature.

Thank you, I was looking for the solution to this. We have iCal Server running for test-purposes and I couldn't figure this one out.

I think this just shows yet again that the combination of iCal Server and iCal as a CalDav client needs a lot of work still. And it also needs someone at Apple to actually USE the product, not just program it.

I added the key that you described, and restarted the iCal service, but I do not have a private check box as you described. Both the server and my machine are running 10.5.3. I even restarted the iCal server, but still there is no check box.

The funny thing is that after I added that key to the plist file, it was moved from the bottom of the list of keys to it's alphabetic order in between "EnableNotifications" and "EnableProxyPrincipals" I've checked my syntax, and it's correct. I edited the plist file with vi.

Perhaps there's something else I missed?

I'm a little confused. How is this useful? I enabled private on my iCal server. User calendars are now allowed to mark items as private. Local calendars (not served, but in iCal) are not. Group (served) calendars are not.

Now, the served user calendars are not made public via the web (because users only have blogs). The only public calendars are the group calendars, which seemingly can't use the private feature.

The availability window in iCal only ever showed time blocks of availability and not events...

So who exactly would no longer be able to see something that is marked private?

Well, it appears to use the feature you have to manually turn it on in calendar server, and the feature only works for calendars in calendar server.

Is anyone at Apple actually using Calendar Server? We can't even use it in our office because we can't invite people not in OD, and now we can't publish our calendars with private events either. And the new "private" feature it isn't turned on anyway, and there are no instructions to turn it on beyond this discussion group.

Quite seriously, is the problem that all of Apple's engineers working on the 3G iPhone?

Hmm..."Addresses potential privacy issues by allowing events to be marked as private" is a soo general statement, that I hardly see this as misleading. I read this as "We meddled a bit in the source code, now go and see whether you find it useful! Hint: It has got something to do with privacy.".

It is useful if you make use of the delegate feature. If you allow others to view your calendar via delegation, the person in question sees flagged events only as "Private Event".

This is of course utterly useless to persons with no private life or working for employers who dont like them to have one 🙂

Well..hmmm..on first, second and third glance you didnt miss anything...*THINK*

But let me add, that I kept instructions on a minimum level to avoid misunderstandings. This surely allows for mismatches between your and my configuration that I wasnt (and still am not) aware of.

Sorry I cant help more 😟

And following this train of thought: Wasnt there a feature like "find next possible date" when inviting people??? I cant find it anywhere now...have I gone blind?