Subscribing to Your Directra Calendar

It's easy to see all the data from your Directra calendar in your Google, Apple, Outlook or other iCal-compliant calendar. All you have to do is copy a URL that Directra provides and paste it into your external calendar.

You have the choice of using calendar data from an individual Group or using the data from all your Groups. For example, suppose your family uses a single calendar (e.g. Google Calendar) to keep track of all family activities. You have two children on different sports team, each with a separate Group of which you are a member. In this case the easiest thing to do is use a single URL that captures date for all your Group calendars.

In Directra

On the Calendar tab click Subscribe to Calendar, then from the dialog that appears copy the URL for either all your calendars or for the specific Group you're using. (The easiest way to do this is to highlight the URL, then enter Ctrl+C.)

In Your External Calendar

Paste the URL into your calendar's iCal subscription interface. This will be different for each type of calendar.

Here's how you would do it for some common calendars.

Google Calendar

Make sure you are signed in to your Google calendar.
In the My Calendars box, click Add, then select Add by URL from the drop-down menu.
Paste the URL you copied from Directra in step 2, above. You'll see something like this:

s (Your URL will not display "000", but rather the number specific for your Group, as well as some other information that identifies you.)
Click Add and your Directra calendar will now be listed in your list of Other Calendars.

Note - It may take up to 24 hours for Google to synchronize with your Group calendar data.

Windows Calendar

Windows Calendar is available with Windows Vista.

Open Windows Calendar, click the Share menu item and select Subscribe....
Paste your Directra calendar URL into the box labeled Calendar to subscribe to:. Click Next.
You'll see an "in process" subscription dialog, which will remain open for several seconds, then will automatically open another dialog.
In this final dialog enter the name with which this calendar will be displayed in Windows Calendar. Also select the interval in which you want Windows Calendar to automatically get information from your Directra calendar.
Click Finish.

Apple iCal

Choose Calendar > Subscribe.
Enter your Directra URL, and then click Subscribe.
Type a name for the calendar in the Name field and choose a calendar color from the adjacent pop-up menu.

If you want to remember information associated with this calendar, type it in the Description field.
If you want to receive any to-do items or attachments, or hear any alarms associated with the calendar, deselect the appropriate Remove checkboxes.
If you want iCal to update this calendar when you make changes to it in Directra, choose the update frequency from the Auto-refresh pop-up menu.

Click OK. Your Directra calendar appears in your Calendars list under the heading Subscriptions. You can rename the calendar by double-clicking the name, but you can’t make any other changes to it in iCal. Changes must be made in Directra.

Microsoft Outlook (2007 and more recent)

Click the link for the Internet Calendar Subscription and add the URL for your Directra calendar. You might be prompted to acknowledge that you are opening a hyperlink. Click Yes, since you know your can trust the validity of your Directra calendar.
At the prompt Add this Internet Calendar to Outlook and subscribe to updates, click Yes.
Your Directra calendar opens in a side-by-side view in the Outlook Calendar and is added to the Navigation Pane in Calendar view under Other Calendars. Outlook will check periodically for any updates made to your Directra calendar.