Creating Your Calendar Feeds in Táve
The first step is creating the Táve calendar feeds you’d like to use. You can create a number of different feeds based on your needs. For example, you can create feeds that will show only specific Event Types, Job Types and even only events in which a specific contact in your Address Book is an attendee. If you’d like to give someone a more private feed of just your availability shown as simply “busy” or “free”, you can do that too.You can create these feeds in Settings › Calendar Settings by clicking on the New Calendar Feed button as shown below.
You can now customize the following in each Táve calendar feed you create:
Kind: Availability (Busy/Free), Only Confirmed Events, Only Tentative Events, All Events
Event Type: Restrict the feed to only include specific account Event Types
Job Type: Restrict the feed to only include specific account Job Types
Brand: Restrict the feed to only include specific account Brands
Attendee: Choose from any existing contact in your Address Book or create a new one on the fly (see more on creating calendar feeds for event attendees).
The last option is to restrict the feed to show only the past 3 months of history, as opposed to the default showing the entire history of events, if you prefer this option.
Once you’ve saved the new calendar feed, you’ll see a URL created:
These URLs are what we will need later to setup the feed subscription in iOS. Once you pick the appropriate one you want to subscribe to, the quickest way to subscribe on an iPhone or iPad is to simply copy that URL and send yourself an email (assuming you have email setup on your device). This saves you the time and frustration of trying to retype that long URL by hand.
Adding Your Calendar Subscription on iPhone or iPad
Once you have emailed yourself the URL to your Táve calendar feed, pick up your iPhone and bring up that email. You'll copy that URL with your iPhone.
Head to your calendar app and click on Calendars:
Choose Add Calendar at the bottom:
Choose Add Subscription Calendar:
Enter the URL you copied and emailed to yourself in the Subscription URL field and click Subscribe:
You'll be able to give your calendar a title, preview the events in the feed, change the color of the events and adjust notifications. When you're ready, choose Add at the top:
You'll then see your newly added calendar in the Subscribed Calendars section.