Connecting Your Facilitron Calendar to Google or Apple Calendar

This article will assist administrators with connecting a Facilitron calendar to their Google or Apple calendar.

Connecting your Facilitron calendar to your Google or Apple calendar (or other WebDav/iCal capable calendar) will allow you to view reservations at your site on the go, according to the calendar rules you set.

• Choosing an Existing Calendar, or Creating a New Calendar
• Pushing your Facilitron Calendar to Other External Calendars
  • Pushing to a Google Calendar
  • Pushing to an Apple Calendar
  • Pushing to a Microsoft Outlook Calendar
  • Pushing to an iPhone or iPad Calendar
  • Subscribing to an Existing or New Calendar via Google Calendar
• How to Unsubscribe from a Calendar

Choosing an Existing Calendar, or Creating a New Calendar

Start by navigating to the "Setup" dropdown in the left hand navigation bar on your administrator dashboard and clicking "Calendar Management".

Once on the calendar management page, you may view the rules for any existing calendars, determine if you would like to subscribe to an existing calendar, or set up a calendar with new rules by clicking the "Create New Calendar" button in the upper right hand corner.

A calendar’s rules determine what reservations will be pushed to your external calendar. Clicking the pencil icon on the right, next to an existing calendar will show you the calendar’s current rules, and allow you to adjust them as necessary.

• Please note that any changes to the calendar’s rules will affect everyone who is currently subscribed to the calendar.

When creating a new calendar, or editing the rules for an existing one, the configurable rules are:

1. Calendar Name: Enter a name that best describes your calendar. For example, if you are the Theater Director and would like to set up a calendar only for events taking place at the Theater, you may name it "Theater Events".
2. Information to show on the calendar: Here you may choose between showing the event (name), reservation (ID), facility, and renter (name or organization name), or a combination of any of these options.
3. Calendar Rules: Here you can choose what types of reservations to show on your external calendar. These are internal reservations, external reservations, public notices, offsite events, and maintenance blocks, or a combination of any of these options.
   1. Please note that public notices and offsite events do not contain facilities, and will still appear on your external calendar if selected with the notice or offsite event name.
4. Facilities: Pick and choose any or all facilities you would like included in your Calendar. Only reservations containing those facilities, and included in your calendar rules specification, will appear on your external calendar. 
5. Time: If you wish, you may choose to only have events taking place within designated times or on designated dates appear on your external calendar. Leaving the default options of 00:00 to 23:59 as is will not eliminate any events based on their time slot.

Pushing your Facilitron Calendar to Other External Calendars

If you wish to push your chosen or created Facilitron calendar to another external calendar, you may view additional instructions by clicking on the blue [ ? ] information icon next to “iCal Feeds”.

Pushing to a Google Calendar

1. In the left column, locate the “Other Calendars” section.
2. From the dropdown menu select Add by URL.
3. Enter the iCal Feed URL in the dialog box then click “Add Calendar”.
4. Go to calendar “Settings” and rename the calendar to something meaningful.

Pushing to an Apple Calendar

1. Open the Calendar program (in Applications).
2. Click the "File" menu and select "New Calendar Subscription".
3. Enter the iCal Feed URL (copied from your chosen or newly created Facilitron calendar) into the calendar URL field, and click "Subscribe".
4. Change the name and color (optional), change the location to "On My Mac" (important!), and update the Auto-refresh frequency to the one desired, then click OK.
   
   

Pushing to a Microsoft Outlook Calendar

1. Upon signing in to Outlook, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the calendar icon.
2. Press "Add Calendar" in the navigation pane.
3. Choose the "Subscribe from web" option.
4. Enter the URL for the calendar you are adding and click "Import".

Alternatively, you can follow the steps below if you are using an older version of Outlook:

1. First, you'll need to find the link to the calendar you would like to add. 
2. Once you have the link, scroll to "Integrate Calendar" and copy the secret address in iCal format.
3. Go to your Outlook calendar and select "Add Calendar > From Internet" on the home tab.
4. Paste the link and select "OK". 
5. Outlook will ask if you want to add this calendar and subscribe to the calendar's updates. Click "Yes".

Pushing to an iPhone or iPad Calendar

1. Tap the "Settings" app on your iOS device’s home screen.
2. Select "Mail > "Contacts" > "Calendars", then tap "Add Account" in the "Accounts" section.
3. Tap "Other", then tap "Add Subscribed Calendar".
4. Enter the ICS calendar’s address in the "Server" field.
5. Tap "Next", then enter a name for the calendar in the "Description" field.
6. Tap "Save" to add the calendar to the "Calendar" app.

After you subscribe to a calendar, it appears under “Subscribed” in the “Calendar” section of the Calendar app.

Subscribing to an Existing or New Calendar via Google Calendar

Use iCal Feeds to pull event information into various outside calendars and automatically receive updates as calendar data changes. Here is how to subscribe to the iCal Feeds:

Once you have either chosen an existing calendar, or created a new calendar, you can proceed in subscribing to it on your Google Calendar by clicking “Add” next to Google Calendar.

From there, a pop-out will appear asking you to sign into your Google account, and confirming that you would like your chosen Facilitron calendar to push to Google.

After logging in to your Google account and allowing Facilitron to connect, you will be brought back to Facilitron where you will be asked to select a calendar. Please note that you must push the calendar in Facilitron in order for the update to occur in Google Calendar.

Choose the Google calendar you would like the Facilitron calendar and events to push to, and click “Submit”.

How to Unsubscribe from a Calendar

If you no longer wish to subscribe to a calendar, you may unsubscribe from it by clicking the [ x ] next to your email address, beneath the designated calendar.

You will be asked to confirm your decision to unsubscribe from the calendar.

Click "Remove Calendar and Clear Events" to unsubscribe. Doing this will remove events from your external calendar.

For additional support, please reach out to Facilitron Support by emailing support@facilitron.com or by phone at (800) 272-2962.