Google calendar tips
Tech Notes
We use Google Apps for our business email. Recently we've been migrating our old CalDAV server to Google Calendars. Here are a couple of tips. All of these tips presume you've already set up Google Apps for your domain, configured your users and set up Google Calendars in iCal.
Migrating a calendar
- In iCal highlight your old CalDAV calendar.
- File > Export > Export... to your desktop.
- File > Import > Import... from your exported file.
- Select your primary Google calendar as the destination.
Syncing delegates with an iPhone
Delegates are calendars owned by other people in your organisation that you have viewing and/or editing rights over. Delegates work well in iCal (visit the Delegation tab of the Accounts preferences. But require an additional step on the iPhone.
- Set up the iPhone using the Gmail profile (rather than Exchange). Exchange may work too but this is not our scenario.
- While logged in to your Google account on your computer visit this URL (replacing the domain in [square brackets] with your own - also remove the square brackets) and select the delegates you wish to see on your iPhone. https://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/[mydomain.com]/iphoneselect
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151674