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Apple iCal (and other Calendar applications including Microsoft Outlook) can subscribe to online calendars from applications like Dev Hound. You can see upcoming version releases, comments to issues, new issues and a lot more. Best yet, this information is very configurable allowing you to see just the events you want to.

Setting up

In Dev Hound:

• Click the Admin tab
• Click on Calendar underneath the Feeds group

The following page should appear:

• Select the items you would like to see in the calendar
• The URL at the bottom of the page will change as you make selections
• Copy the URL remembering to replace yourpassword with your Dev Hound password
• Paste the URL into your favourite calendar application

Note: You can expose multiple calendars with Dev Hound, so for example you could have one URL for all version releases and one for issues completed.

Apple iCal

To show a Dev Hound calendar in iCal do the following:

• Start iCal
• Right click in the Calendars area
• Choose Subscribe... item as shown:

• Enter the URL for the calendar feed
• Click the Subscribe button

• Enter a meaningful name for the calendar

• It is recommended that you do not poll the calendar more than once per hour
• After clicking Ok your calendar will be updated with Dev Hound events:

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook 2003 can subscribe to iCal feeds from Dev Hound using a third party tool like Remote Calendars.

• Install Remote Calendars (or other suitable Calendar subscription tool)
• Open Microsoft Outlook
• A new toolbar should appear (as shown beside)
• Click on the first icon and the following dialog will appear:

• Paste the URL you copied from Dev Hound -> Admin ->Calendar and click Ok
• After a brief pause the Calendar in Outlook will be updated

Note: The second icon on the toolbar will refresh the Calendar from Dev Hound so that any new items are reflected in Outlook