LuxSci has made several enhancements to its WebAide Calendar features.  These include an improved printable Monthly view of your calendars and the ability to have event attachments in email messages auto-added to your calendars

Email To Calendar

WebAide-licensed users can now create Custom Email Filters that match selected messages with calendar attachments (e.g. events, invitations, iCal files, etc.) and have these items automatically added to a calendar of their choice.

This feature allows users who frequently receive events by email to have these automatically populate their calendars without any action needed.  Once in their calendars, these events are immediately visible in LuxSci’s web interface and immediately synchronize with users’ mobile devices via our Mobile Sync service.

LuxSci’s WebAide Calendars now support on-demand and automatic import of calendar data from external calendar sources published as iCal files.

If you have a calendar, i.e. from Google or some other company, which is accessible as an iCal file via a web link, then you can now pull that calendar data into your LuxSci WebAide calendars manually or continuously.

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LuxSci WebMail supports the export of address book entries as vCard files and of calendar entries as iCal files.  Now, WebMail further integrates your email with your address book and calendars.

If you receive an email message with a vCard file or an iCal file (or even an Outlook/Exchange meeting notice) as an attachment:

• That attachment will be parsed and displayed nicely inline in WebMail
• You will be able to send vCard attachments to your WebAide Address Book to add as new contacts
• You will be able to send iCal attachments to your Calendars as new events

Additionally, from within your address book or calendar you can select entrie(s) and click on “Send as vCard” or “Send as iCal” to compose a new email message with those entries attached.

LuxSci WebMail and WebAides makes it easy to send and receive calendar and address book entries between LuxSci users and other users whose email programs support these standard event and contact attachment file formats.

LuxSci’s WebAide Calendars and Address Books have been improved to allows users to easily send contacts and events to other people via email as vCard and iCal attachments.

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LuxSci users with Blogs, Links, Notes and Documents WebAides can publish the information in these tools as a public RSS 2.0 feed.  Similarly, LuxSci users can publish their Calendars as a public iCal file.  These public files can be password protected.

However, it is often the case that when automating data transfer (i.e. having your Blog show up as a page in your internal Wiki) the programs that read the RSS and/or iCal feed might not support password protection. So, how can you ensure privacy and security without using password protection?

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Anyone using a LuxSci Calendar WebAide can now “publish” their calendar and make it available as iCal file accessible via a public Internet address (URL).  Now, any program that can display the contents of an iCal file can display your LuxSci Calendar directly.  I.e. Mozilla Sunbird, Thunderbird Lightning, Mac iCal, and PHP iCalendar are a few programs that can display calendars loaded from remote iCal files.  Many other programs and systems, including those that support CalDAV, can also display iCal calendar files or synchronize with them.

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LuxSci’s WebAide Calendars now support import and export of calendar data using the standard ICal files. This makes it much easier to copy calendar data between LuxSci’s WebAides and many different calendar programs. ICal format fully supports recurrent entries.