gilles

IT WORKS!

Thanks to your post, I finally managed to make it work.

I tried as you calDAV, could not read the events and stopped there.
I then used the other way, where I could read the events, but not write. Frustrating.
But together, this is the solution. Not a nice one, but it works perfectly.

So here it is, slowely for everyone:

1. Make a chandler account with your calender.
2. On the iPhone, configure a first account to READ the events:
a. copy the link from the chandler hub website: click the flash right of the calender name, click “invite”, click “view only”, and copy the “iCal” Link from the opening website.
b. add account … other … calender-> add suscribed calender
c. under “Server” add the link copied under point a.
3. On the iPhone, configure a second account to WRITE the events:
a. add account … other … add CalDavAccount
b. server: hub.chandlerproject.org//dav/users/*your_username*
c. add username & password
4. Now, you will show only the “READ” calender, but not the write calender.
5. To create an event, be sure to create it in the write calender.

Got it? Good luck!!!

Gilles

P.S.: I recommend using the “Week Cal” app – it’s great. You have a perfect weekly view.

Does anyone know how to use the new calDAV feature on iPhone iOS4 to download the Chandlerhub calendar to their iPhones? I have got it kind of working but it does not display any of the calendar events?

I can create new ones on the iPhone which then display on other devices so one work (e.g. write) is working, but reading is not…..

Any ideas?

Thanks

Any clues ? Could this be Firewall related (I’m trying this from work)
Thanks for any help,
Guyst

Or is this a “premium” feature that is only available from the cosmohub website?

What you’re trying to do is possible, but it’s a bit of a pain.

Unfortunately iCal doesn’t allow ticket based CalDAV subscriptions. It’s a pity, if they did, what you’re trying to do would work well. The recipient of the view-and-edit URL can go to that URL and click the CalDAV button to get a CalDAV link to just that calendar, with a ticket that allows access without a username or password.

Since iCal doesn’t support this, to share a calendar read-write between multiple iCal users you need each iCal client to subscribe using the same username and password.

Regrettably again, iCal won’t let you subscribe to a subset of a user’s calendars. So basically you have to make a different account for each group you want to share a set of calendars with.

So, for example, I have a personal account with a dozen calendars I don’t want to share with everyone, I also have a choir calendar I share with my choir. So, I created a separate choir account so everyone in the choir can have read/write access.

Note that for anyone who just wants read-access to the calendar (which is all that’s possible with WebDAV), the view-and-edit link provides an Apple iCal button which provides a read-only monolithic ics URL.

I had hoped to use Chandler hub as a way to share information between iCal running on two desktops “edit private calendars with friends and colleagues” in the terms of your post. Could you be more specific on how to set this up?

What is the difference between using the “view & edit” link, and adding Chandler as a CalDav account as recommended in the wiki?

From the wiki, it appears that creating a hub account for each editor, then sharing read/write collections between those, then adding each of these as a CalDAV account to their respective iCals was supposed to work. But what happens for me is that each iCal can see the categories on THEIR hub account, but none of the categories shared from anyone else’s.

When I try to add the “View & Edit” link in iCal I get: “Error subscribing to the calendar: Data downloaded from https://hub.chandlerproject.org/pim/collection/…?ticket=... is not valid.”

I get this with your link above as well.
Of course, Safari not being able to view the hub account makes all this more problematic.