iCal is a Web Calendar Server for all flavors of Microsoft Windows. It is an event calendar that can be used for scheduling meetings, events, vacations, menus, or just about anything else. This calendar can be for personal use or for sharing on your Intranet or Internet. iCal has a Web Browser Interface that allows dynamic updating of the calendar events. Since iCal comes with a built in Web Server, an existing Web Server environment is not required.

• scheduling meetings, vacations, or any kind of events
• keeping track of employee availability
• room or equipment reservations
• anything else you can think of!

Calendars are interactive, and can be for personal use, or for sharing among any number of users over your intranet or the internet. iCal is very easy to use; a web browser is the only client software required to view, add, or edit events.

iCal Web Calendar Features

Dynamic Calendar Merging
You can now include data from other calendars within your own calendar. This allows you to make department level calendars that roll-up individual calendars. All included data is live; when you change an individual calendar, the group calendar reflects these changes immediately. Dynamic Demo will describe this feature in detail and you can see how this feature works with an active calendar.

Calendar Views and Formats
The calendar can be viewed in traditional grid format or by month list format. Additionally, the calendar can be viewed in a yearly, weekly and single day format. Each individual viewing the calendar can determine the format that best suites his/her needs. A favorite view is Time Plan.

Palm Pilot and Outlook Synchronization
iCal web calendars can synchronize with any PDA running Palm OS or with Microsoft Outlook. The TripleSync client software makes this all possible.

International Language Support
iCal has been designed to support languages other than English. Custom language files can be easily created. At this time there is support for Danish, German and Dutch in addition to English. We will be adding more languages which will be made available for download.

Planner View of Multiple Calendars
This provides a matrix view of multiple calendars. Hours of the day horizontally across the top and the list of calendars vertically along the side. Your calendars can represent any resource for allocation. The resources could be anything from conference rooms, lab equipment, office appointment times, racquetball courts etc. The planner view allows you to quickly determine and assign available time slots. For additional information and online demo see: Book Your Tennis Court!

Mini Navigation Calendar
A small navigation calendar that can keep you informed of daily activities. To see this feature come to this demo calendar, click on the navigation link at the bottom of the calendar labeled Calendars: Select to bring up a list of available calendars. On this list you will see links to mini which will present you with a small navigation calendar.

Automatically add iCal events to Outlook calendar
This feature will download individual iCal events in iCalendar format. This will cause any iCalendar application to import this event. The Microsoft Outlook calendar is such an application allowing an iCal web calendar event to be moved to Outlook with a single click. live demonstration of this feature. Here is how to configure iCal to use this feature.

Tenative Event Submission
You can configure any calendar for Tentative Event Submission. If this is enabled, any user with Add permission can add events, but the events won't actually appear on the calendar until they're approved by a privileged user.

Calendar Subscription
You can configure any calendar to allow people to sign up for calendar reminders. When enabled any person with View permission to a calendar can subscribe to be reminded in advance of any upcoming event. E.g. An email message can be received an hour before a status meeting. There is also the ability to be notified of any event added or modified on the calendar.

Calendar Security
For levels of calendar password security can be assigned.

• Admin Allows individuals to configure the calendar.
• Edit Allows individuals to update and delete events on the calendar.
• Add Allows individuals to add events to the calendar.
• View Allows individuals to view the calendar.

Passwords are hierarchical in design. i.e. A password assigned to give Edit access will also give Add and View access.

Calendar Groups
Each Calendar can be assigned to a Calendar Group. Calendar Groups are used to limit which Calendars can be included and displayed in the Select Calendar list. E.g. This allows you to have a set of calendars for separate company departments, for conference rooms or in any way you might choose to group them.

Time Conflict and Searching
Calendars can be defined to prevent events from having an overlap in associated time. i.e. You can not add one event that runs from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM and a second that runs from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. A search feature is available to locate a desired time slot from among multiple calendars. A Time Search Demo describe this feature in detail. The demo has an active set of calendars which show how you can search for and reserve an available conference room.

Email Notification Features
This is an add on option that allows email to be sent directly from your calendars. The email feature requires iCal to run on NT/2000/XP. Here are the capabilities wrapped around this email option.

• Auditing Calendar Activity This allows the administrator of a calendar to be notified when events are added, update or deleted. This is very helpful for calendars that are wide open for people to add and modify events.
• Notifying Others You can email others of events you add or update on the calendar. This is commonly used to notify people that you have scheduled an event. The perfect example is the status meeting (that no one wants to attend).
• Reminder Messages Email reminders can be sent from 15 minutes to two weeks in advance of an event. Two separate times can be assigned for each event. To get people to attend the status meeting you can have them emailed the day before and 15 minutes prior to the meeting.
• Subscribing People browsing your calendars can Subscribe to a calendar to be sent notification of changes to the calendar or even for reminders of events that exist on the calendar.

Flexible Calendar Data Entry
Easy to use forms allow text to be placed on the calendar. This text can be links to other web pages or to additional pop up window information. Events can be for single day entry, for a duration of days, or for periodic days. Examples of periodic specification include: 1st and 15th of every month, every other week on Tuesday, or the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month.

Calendar Searching
You can search the calendar for specific events. The events found during a seach will be the only ones displayed onto the calendar. This effectivly provides a filter of your calendar data. For example, you could locate all reservations for a particular room.

Event Categories
Each Event can be assigned to a Category. Each Category can have default color settings. Categories can be defined System-wide, or just for a particular Calendar. You can filter your view of a calendar to show only those events of a specific category.

Repeat Events
Events can occur just once, or you can enter repeating events in a variety of ways. An event can repeat every day, every week, every other week on Tuesdays, the First and Third Saturday and Sunday of Every Other Month, etc. Simple pulldown menus on the event entry form make it easy.

Dynamic Add-In Files
Add in files provide for an easy way to dynamically add special data to your calendars. These are text files located in the folder that holds your calendars. These text files can hold information like moon phases, special holidays, birthday lists, paydays or anything else. For each calendar you choose which of these lists should be populated onto your calendar. There are two possible data formats supported. vCalendar is a calendar data exchange standard supported by many calendar systems. E.g. Apple iCal files. Also supported is IDT File Format which is a very simple easy to construct.

Define Calendar View Range
A valid starting and ending date range can be defined for the calendar. This confines the view range to only the months that may be valid for your project, calendar school year, performances etc.

System Auditing and IP Restriction
Logging can be enabled to trace and report all calendar activity. The IP address of user requests along with other information is reported. Also there is the ability to restrict iCal access to specified IP addresses.

Data Importing and Exporting
CSV and Tab delimited files can be imported into your calendars. MS Outlook files are supported. Daily, Periodic and Duration events with all attributes can be specified. The data can be merged with existing calendar data or can replace all existing events. Calendar data can also be exported to CSV and Tab delimited files.

Color Design
Virtually every display feature of the calendar can be assigned a color through an easy to use interactive setup. Each calendar can have it own assignments. Even the individual events on the calendar can have a specified background and text color.

Complete Font Face and Size Selection,br> You can specify font faces and sizes for all aspects of the calendar. This will help to blend your calendars into the look and feel of your web site. Underlying CSS Cascading Style Sheets can be modified to give fine control over the display.

Calendar Publishing
iCal is a dynamic interactive web calendar. However, it is also possible to publish the calendar as a set of static html pages. These pages can then be placed under any web server for purpose of view only.

Headers and Footers
Customized header and footer text (or images) can be assigned for each calendar.

Easy Calendar Navigation
Dynamic navigation tool bars provide easy movment to other months, to other calendars, alternate views of the calendar data, access to event edit forms and to administration screens.

What's New in Version 4.0?

iCalendar and WebDAV
iCal supports the iCalendar standard and has been designed to allow data exchange between other iCalendar products like Apple's iCal calendar and Google's calendar. iCal will function as a WebDAV server which allows applications to Publish calendar data directly to the system. This iCalendar Data Exchange page provides details on the workings of this feature.

Custom Fields (Optional Feature)
Custom Fields can be defined for events; you can specify any number of data fields for all events in a calendar. Each field has an associated input type, used when adding new events: single-line text, multi-line text, pulldown menu, multiple-choice list, or checkbox. You can specify the options for the pulldown menus and multiple-choice lists, as well as defaults for each field.

RSS Feeds
The details of the calendar can be pulled as an RSS Feed.

Double-click to add
You can double-click to add a new event in a popup window. (Click in date headers in the Block View, in the date or day or blank cells in the List View.)

Other Features

• Solid banner bars can be selected to display multi-day events.
• Cascading Style Sheets define the look of all menus and entry forms.
• Color names can be used on the event entry form. New easier color picker.
• The block view can define scroll bars for the daily blocks.
• A more descriptive and readable log file.
• A new option to delete all calendar events.
• All individual calendar entry fields can be defined as viewable or hidden on the entry form.
• Double Clicking on events from an included calendar will take you directly to the edit form for the event.