Groupware Calendar on OSX
December 30, 2004 12:09 AM

Mac OS X Groupware Filter: A friend of mine is switching to Mac from Windows and is looking for a groupware calendar.[mi]

He's having trouble getting iCal to do what he needs it to. Does anyone know of a good groupware calendaring system for Mac OS X? Said calendar should:
  • allow authorized users to manipulate each other's calendars
  • have a good Mac-native interface
  • allow publish and subscribe of iCal-compatible .ics files
  • allow publishing of a "censored" calendar that shows subscribers what times are blocked out, but which doesn't reveal the actual events
  • have the usual calendar bells and whistles
  • should not require an IT department to install/maintain it
posted by Ironwolf to Education (3 answers total)
The .ics and non-IT requirements strike out Meetingmaker.

I hate to make it sound simple, but Mac OS X (client) comes with a WebDAV module for the built-in Apache web server. You can use WebDAV and Realms to publish and share .ics files through your Apache web server.

• Sharing iCal calendars with WebDAV

I wrote a document here a couple years ago with a conf file that explains how to set up WebDAV realms, which you'd use to set up group access. Here's another doc.

Unless you use webmin, the configuration work's all on the command-line.

But the nice thing is that its all free and uses all OS X-native stuff. No need for Linux or Windows.
posted by AlexReynolds at 12:42 AM on December 30, 2004


this does not exist, though it should. i will add it to my wish-list, right below the application that allows me to archive all correspondence with certain contacts and see archived correspondence at a glance via address book.
posted by subpixel at 7:51 AM on December 30, 2004


What you want doesn't exist yet. Everything approaching this requires server administration and (shudder) mysql.

On the happy side, groupwise 6.5 has a mac client now, and a third party free slim client. Ifyou are stuck with gwise at work.

Gwise supports .ics too.
posted by mecran01 at 1:34 PM on December 30, 2004


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