Linked Calendars

Linked calendars in LiveWhale

Add an iCal feed from an external calendar to display in your LiveWhale calendar:

1. From the Your Events tab, select Linked Calendars.
2. "Linked Calendars" will open. Select Add a new calendar feed.
3. "Add a new linked calendar" opens. Enter the iCal URL. To link to a Google calendar, select Instructions for linking to Google calendar.
   1. To add an iCal feed for another LiveWhale calendar to the "Linked Calendars" section of your events calendar, see the Feed Builder page on the Events documentation site.
   2. Obtain a JSON feed for the events calendar you want to use as a linked calendar in your events calendar. The JSON feed URL might look something like https://events.iu.edu/live/json/events/group_id/999.
   3. In the JSON feed URL, change the following:
      • json to ical
      • group_id to group
      • The id of the group calendar (999 in the example above) to the group name of the calendar

      The URL should now look something like https://events.iu.edu/live/ical/events/group/Group Name of the Calendar

   4. Test the iCal feed URL by pasting it in a browser.
   5. Add the iCal feed to the "Linked Calendars" section of your calendar.
4. To add an image, see Add/change images.
5. Select Test this feed to make sure the feed URL works.
6. In the "Calendar Title" field, enter the name of the calendar.
7. The information entered after the title field will only work with new events from the linked calendar.
8. If you want the feed items to be featured, select the star icon. If you want other groups to share the feed, select the earth icon.
9. Under "Event Link", check the box if you want the link to go to the original site.
10. Add a description for the linked calendar.
11. To add a link to a web address, specific event, or file, enter that information under "Related Content".
12. Under "Location", add the event location.
13. Check the applicable boxes for event types, audiences, and campuses.
14. Add Tags by typing the tag name or by selecting Show all tags and selecting from the list of available tags.
15. Add contact information and event cost (if applicable).
16. Under "Sharing and Privacy", select who may view the calendar on the public website:
    • Everyone
    • Your group only
    • Any logged-in user
    • Anyone with a link
17. When finished, select Save calendar.