Zulu See it in iCal

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Using Lion?

If you're using iCal in Lion (the very latest Mac operating system) you have to do things a little differently. Please read the instructions below for an overview then see how folks are getting this to work with Lion on our support forums.

How do I add a FileMaker Calendar to iCal?

1. Open iCal and select "Preferences" from the iCal menu. 2. Click on the "Accounts" tab and the click the plus sign in the lower left to create a new account. 3. Select "CalDAV" as the account type, and enter the username and password you use to log into FileMaker. This doesn't have to be a full access account, but the account has to have XML publishing access and meet a few other requirements. 4. Enter the complete server address as shown on the "Published..." page you arrive at after clicking the "publish" button in your file. (This is step 7 in our integration instructions.) This address looks like: http://yourserveripaddress/zulu/calendars/yourfilename/ Do NOT forget the slash at the end of the filename, or the http:// in front of the ip address. 5. You may a warning about an unsecured connection-- this is because your server isn't set up to use SSL. You can learn more about that here, but click "Continue" for now to set up add the calendar to iCal. 6. That's it. You'll be back on the preferences' Account screen where you can give the server a name in the Description Field. Then close the preferences window and you'll see iCal start loading your calendar(s).

Watch it

Watch a longer video showing how to set Zulu up and introducing some basic filtering. If you're having trouble creating a Zulu account in iCal, this can help: video.

Troubleshooting

iCal can be kind of picky, so be patient and check for the following issues...

When you first enter a new calendar in ical it can take a while for iCal to process it: especially is this is the first time the FileMaker file has been hit by iCal. iCal may time out before it reads all the events the first time. Give it some time and refresh the calendar in iCal a couple times. It will eventually get all the way through the events and display them.

Note that iCal won't work with a blank username or password.

You may get a message regarding the dates or date range of some of the records. If this happens you likely have FileMaker records where the end date is before the start date. Find the offending records by hand in FileMaker, fix the records, then delete and reenter the calendar in iCal following the steps above.

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