Bloomz supports integrating an existing external calendar with your community calendar/ class calendar/ personal calendar on Bloomz. Importing an external calendar requires the calendar to allow converting it into an iCal URL.

Here are directions to import some popular calendars:


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Importing from Google Calendar

  1. Click on the settings button in the top right of your Google calendar page.
  2. Click on settings
  3. Choose the calendar you would like to export
  4. Change the access permissions to public
  5. Copy the ICal public address in the integrate calendar section
  6. Open the Bloomz application and click on settings in a class or community
  7. Click on edit settings
  8. Click on the calendars tab and click import calendar (iCal)
  9. Fill in a calendar name and copy and paste the address you copied before.



Importing from Outlook Calendar

  1. Click on the Share button in the options menu
  2. Share the email to yourself
  3. Open the email that you have received and copy the link address of the "Add this Calendar Button" and paste it into a notepad.
  4. Copy everything from webcal to ics in the link this will be the ICal link. https://outlook.live.com/?rru=addsubscription&url=webcal://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/318d0d0fed124c17bbbdbf2cdba17ca3@sd.org/c1c9ebc1093f4b7c9aac58c1809cc7ea168850183755282874/S-1-8-4224725305-2666841924-2507351727-400097996/reachcalendar.ics&name=GOTTUM%2c+ADI
  5. Copy the ICal Public address in the integrate calendar section.
  6. Open the Bloomz application and click on settings in a class or community
  7. Click on edit settings
  8. Click on the calendars tab and click import calendar (iCal)
  9. Fill in a calendar name and copy and paste the address you copied before.


To add multiple calendars to your community/ class/ group page

You can add any number of calendars to your community/class/group page and give each of them a different name (eg: Sports Calendar, PTA Calendar etc.,)

  1. Navigate to the community/ class/ group  page 
  2. Click on the Settings wheel in the top right corner of your community page to open the menu
  3. Click Edit Settings
  4. Click on the Calendars tab
  5. Click "Import Calendar (iCal)"
  6. Give your calendar a Name and Paste the link you copied in the URL field.
  7. Click Save.

To remove a calendar from your community/ class/ group calendar

  1. Navigate to the community page 
  2. Click on the Settings wheel in the top right corner of your community page to open the menu
  3. Click on the Calendars tab
  4. Click on the name of the calendar that was added
  5. Click Remove Calendar.