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:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Importing from Google Calendar
- Importing from Outlook Calendar
- To add multiple calendars to your community/ class/ group page
- To remove a calendar from your community/ class/ group calendar
Importing from Google Calendar
- Click on the settings button in the top right of your Google calendar page.
- Click on settings
- Choose the calendar you would like to export
- Change the access permissions to public
- Copy the ICal public address in the integrate calendar section
- Open the Bloomz application and click on settings in a class or community
- Click on edit settings
- Click on the calendars tab and click import calendar (iCal)
- Fill in a calendar name and copy and paste the address you copied before.
Importing from Outlook Calendar
- Click on the Share button in the options menu
- Share the email to yourself
- Open the email that you have received and copy the link address of the "Add this Calendar Button" and paste it into a notepad.
- 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
- Copy the ICal Public address in the integrate calendar section.
- Open the Bloomz application and click on settings in a class or community
- Click on edit settings
- Click on the calendars tab and click import calendar (iCal)
- 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.,)
- Navigate to the community/ class/ group page
- Click on the Settings wheel in the top right corner of your community page to open the menu
- Click Edit Settings
- Click on the Calendars tab
- Click "Import Calendar (iCal)"
- Give your calendar a Name and Paste the link you copied in the URL field.
- Click Save.
To remove a calendar from your community/ class/ group calendar
- Navigate to the community page
- Click on the Settings wheel in the top right corner of your community page to open the menu
- Click on the Calendars tab
- Click on the name of the calendar that was added
- Click Remove Calendar.