openDesktop Calendar

Stay organized and get more done. Control your day, week and month with calendar events.

Managing your calendars

Create a new Calendar

To create a new calendar, click on a + New Calendar in the **Apps information panel **.

Type in a new name (for example, Home or Work) and click on a checkmark to confirm creation of a new calendar. New calendar will be synced across all your connected devices.

Edit, download or delete a Calendar

You can change the color or a name of a new calendar using ···

Click on Edit, Download or Delete.

Please keep in mind that deleting a calendar is a irreversible action. After deletion, there is no way of restoring the calendar unless you have a local backup.

Subscribe to a Calendar

You can subscribe to iCal calendars directly inside of your openDesktop Cloud. By supporting this interoperable standard (RFC 5545) we made openDesktop Cloud calendar compatible to Google Calendar, Apple iCloud and many other calendar-servers you can exchange your calendars with.

1. Click on + New Subscription in the Apps infromation panel.
2. Type in the link of the shared calendar you want to subscribe to.
   Finished. Your calendar subscriptions will be updated regularly.

Import a Calendar

If you want to transfer your calendar and their respective events to your openDesktop instance, importing is the best way to do so.

Click on a Settings & Import in the bottom of the Apps information panel.
After clicking on + Import Calendar you can select one or more calendar files from your local device to upload.

The upload can take some time and depends on how big the calendar you import is.

Managing Events

Create a new event

Events can be created by clicking in the area when the event is scheduled. In the day- and week-view of the calendar you just click, pull and left your cursor over the area when the event is taking place.

The month-view only requires a single click into the area of the specific day.

After that, you can type in the events name (e.g. Meeting with Lisa), choose the calendar in which you want to choose the event (e.g. Personal, Work) check and concretize the time span or set the event as all-day event.

If you want to edit advanced details such as the Location, a Description, Attendees, Reminders or to set the event as a repeating-event click on the More… button to open the advanced sidebar-editor.

Edit or Delete an event

If you want to edit or delete a specific event, you just need to click on it. After that you will be able to re-set all of the events details and open the advanced sidebar-editor by clicking on More….

Clicking on the blue Update button will update the event. Clicking on the Cancel button will not save your edits.

If you click on the red Delete button the event will be removed from your calendar.

Birthday calendar

The birthday calendar is a auto-generated calendar which will automatically fetch the birthdays from your contacts. The only way to edit this calendar is by filing your contacts with birthday dates. You can not directly edit this calendar from the calendar-app.

Synchronizing with Android

1. Install DAVx⁵ (formerly known as DAVDroid) on your Android device.
2. Create a new account with + button.
3. Select Connection with URL and username
   Base URL: URL of your openDesktop Cloud instance
   https://my.opendesktop.org/remote.php/dav/
   Contact Group Method: As credentials
4. Choose the option Groups are per-contact categories.
5. Click Connect.
6. Select the data you want to sync.

For more information about Calendar synchronization visit Nextcloud Documentation.