How do I find URL to publish iCal to website after 10.7.2/iCloud update?

As I understand it, if prior to migrating to iCloud you had calendars under both 'On My Mac' and under your MobileMe login, then when you migrate both sets will be transferred to iCloud so that you have only 'On My Mac' calendars.

Only 'On My Mac' calendars can be published to a web page, so you will need to move the calendar in question back from iCloud to 'On My Mac' - please see the second set of numbered instructions on this page:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/movecalendars.html

It's written for MobileMe and Snow Leopard, but I would assume that the principle was the same.

Once done you should be able to publish as before (unless something radical has been changed in the 10.7.2 update).

Hi,

In iCal on Lion you can publish the iCloud calendars.

Open the calendar list in iCal. Control-Click the calendar you want to publish. Select Share Calendar... A new panel will open where you to set your sharing preferences for the calendar name and who you want to be able to see it. Do that and press Share.

To ge the sharing URL, Control-Click the calendar again and select Copy URl to Clipboard.

Best wishes

John M

I've had exactly the same issue with the web published calendars. However this link seems to be a way of publishing iCloud or Mobile Me shared calendars -

http://30boxes.com/external/widget.php?action=buildUrl&theme=%2Ftheme%2Fsmall&ur l1

Ok it's not the same as what we had before and I'm not sure how long it will be available but it seems to work for now. It doesn't update when changes are made from an iOS device, only when iCal is opened on your Mac though.

Hi Simon,

The method I posted above works for events added on any device linked to the iCloud calendar as well as from the website.

Best wishes

John M

John - as I don't have either Lion or iCloud yet can you confirm - does the method you've posted publish to a web page in the manner of publishing an 'On My Mac' calendar in older iCal: or is it 'sharing' which is only available in a WebCAL client?

Hi Roger,

does the method you've posted publish to a web page in the manner of publishing an 'On My Mac' calendar in older iCal: or is it 'sharing' which is only available in a WebCAL client?

As far as I can see: If you publish publicly iCloud creates a WebDAV calendar subscription URL. There is also an option to set it to a privately viewed calendar (optionally read/write), where the recipient would need to have an iCloud account to see it.

John M

Edit: I assume you mean "ON MY MAC' with the old MobileMe. I have only ever run a trial account of MobileMe so cannot comment on this.

Thanks for clarifying: the OP was specifically asking about publishing to a web site, so presumably converting the calendar to an 'On My Mac' one and publishing it from that would achieve this (not something I can check in Lion).

I do see what you mean. The WebCAL link is published on iCloud and it is possible to link to that. It depends on what the OP is actually means by "publish one of my calendars on a web site".

Is the calendar in question listed under your iCloud login or under 'On My Mac?' - if the former you can't publish it to a web page as you have previously (I gather the migration to iCloud moves all 'On My Mac' calendars to iCloud, which is not helpful). To quote my post above:

Only 'On My Mac' calendars can be published to a web page, so you will need to move the calendar in question back from iCloud to 'On My Mac' - please see the second set of numbered instructions on this page:

http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/movecalendars.html

It's written for MobileMe and Snow Leopard, but I would assume that the principle was the same.

Once done you should be able to publish as before (unless something radical has been changed in the 10.7.2 update).

You could publish the iCloud calendar and follow Simon's instructions above using the subscription URL from that. This keeps the calendar in iCloud so you can edit on various devices and provides a calendar user interface you can embed in another webpage.

Of course you're not the only one Peter who's been faced with this problem. While the features of iCal are great in conjunction with iCloud, it assumes people either have iOS devices or Macs. I had previously used the publish feature to give a link to members of a band that I'm in and it worked great. But of course not all members of the band have iOS devices or even want to subscribe to a calendar using Outlook in Windows. I don't understand why the 'publish' feature was never really available in Mobile Me calendars (without workarounds, which now seem not to work with the transition to iCloud).

Anyhow give the 30boxes thing a try by clicking on the iCloud calendar in iCal, choose to share and resend invitations. Mail will then open. Copy the subscribe link then close mail. Then paste that link in the 30boxes link above.

The 30boxes link is rather long, so a nice little tinyurl link on your website probably wouldn't go a miss either so that people could even memorize it if they had to.

i was also trying to see if there were to be a method in dealing with this, but so far i still don't know how it can be acheived. once you position your calenders in the cloud there seems to be no simple web publishing method (i don't want people to create accounts or ask them to login to view my schedule, i just want to simply publish it for anyone interested enough to veiw). thought i might get a simple answer here but seems the methodogy is still not established. i suppose as iCloud evolves, this type of technicality will be eventually addressed, but for the moment being i'm stuck as well.

mmmm.... yes - I had noticed that in my calendars but the time of day is never really an issue with my calendars. I think Peter, and you've probably figured it out by now, that you may have to adjust the times on the calendar on your Mac five hours ahead for the benefit of your website readers!

I would say its a limitation of using the 30boxes feature as they are probably based in New York or somewhere on that timeline.