Slate allows users to add external iCal feeds into Slate Events and Scheduler. Users can easily add institutional calendars, staff calendars and more, directly into Slate including any free/busy information.
Important!
When adding a web calendar, it will be added to both the Events and Scheduler calendars; these cannot be separated. iCal subscriptions from/to Slate will be updated every hour.
The US Holiday iCal is automatically available in Slate. If there is a need for a specific iCal, search for the URL here.
Adding Events to an Individual Outlook Calendar
- Click Events or Scheduler in the top navigation bar.
- Select the iCal subscribe section on the lower right-hand side.
- Select All Events or Your Events ('Your Events' refers to events associated with a specific user).
- In the popup window, click Open Pick an app.
- Select Outlook.
- In the Outlook Calendar, click Yes in the popup window.
After following these steps, the Slate iCal will sync with the individual Outlook calendar on that user's computer.
Note: According to Microsoft: "Support for importing and synchronizing for iCal is not yet available in Outlook for Mac."
- Go to the individual Outlook Calendar's Home tab.
- Select Publish Online > Publish this Calendar or Configure this Published Calendar
- The Outlook Calendar will open an internet browser. Enter the following configurations:
- Select a Calendar - Select Calendar
- Select Permissions - Select Availability Only.
- Click Save to display the HTML and ICS links below.
- Right click on the ICS link, select Copy link address.
- Click Events or Scheduler in the top navigation bar.
- Click Calendars located in the lower right section of the Events/Scheduler navigation menu:
- Paste the ICS link from earlier into 'Add Calendar by URL'.
- Select a color.
- Select add.
- Provide a name to the newly added calendar.
- Select Save, and the calendar will now display under 'Calendars'. Select/unselect non-Slate calendars to display or not display respectively.