Need your advices guys to subscribe from different devices, different apps...

[yliqueur]

Hi,

I have deployed a FileMaker solution based on a custom FullCalendar dev to manage events for a school.

with ZULU I need to give access to 3 kind of users : school administrative, teachers and students...

some events are filtered by credentials, some by key value - events are read only

School administratives will use a google calendar, I done the work with the help of 360Works support last week...

but Teachers and students use a variety of devices and app, that's my point

I did all my test from my Mac and iOS with iCal, and the webcal subscription works great

but just before the final deployment, I want to apply the same subscription to windows and android users and its not so easy...

It seems that I can use webcal only on Mac and iOs, and for the other user I need to share my calendars via google sharing (https...)

So what are your experience for sharing events to window users and android users - what calendar app you need, and what protocol you use

thanks

 

 

[nick360Works]

Hi,

Since Apple calendars will be unavailable to windows and android users, you would need to use either Google calendars or Exchange/Outlook calendars for those users. Please refer to our documentation on how to set up each of those with Zulu: http://docs.360works.com/index.php/Zulu_-_Syncing_with_Exchange_Outlook_Calendars & http://docs.360works.com/index.php/Zulu_-_Syncing_with_Google_Calendars .

It looks like you're on the right track with your filtering and set up so far. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

[yliqueur]

thanks

yep I read the doc, and I have deployed a google sync with creation of a dedicated google API/key...

my question is : for non Mac users the best way to share a calendar is :

first from Zulu to google calendar (via the Zulu's google sync feature) - I have my calendars (a lot) in my customer's main google account 

and then, use google public sharing features to share any single calendar with other users (public)

if I'm right, I loose some filtering capabilities like filtering with google credentials...

Sorry if it a dumb question, but the guide is perfect to deploy but not so clear to the scope of what we can do and cannot do depending the devices/protocol/apps... it's not the purpose of the guide I understand , reason why I need previous users expertise

 

regards

[nick360Works]

Thanks for clarifying.

It makes sense to have a lot of calendars, some of which would be filtered.

Instead of sharing the calendar publicly, you should then share the specific calendars with their corresponding users. Here is a link on how to share the calendars with specific users: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en#zippy= . You can use the main google account to sync with, and then distribute the shared calendars with the correct users.

[yliqueur]

I have to many users changing each year to create specific invitations

I need something more 'universal'