You knew that you can publish to mixin by SMS, twitter, email and IM. You can now subscribe to your online calendar such as GCalendar, Upcoming, fbCal or any online ICalendar and add activities from it into mixin automatically.
Here is a short tutorial on how to do it. First, get your external calendar url and copy it into the input field as shown below. If you use GCalendar, we recommend you to create a new calendar, you can get the GCalendar url in the calendar settings page as shown here:
After clicking on the subscribe button we copy all calendar events to mixin. If you set a privacy on your external calendar all the events from this calendar will have the selected privacy when the are copied.
We copy and update the events from your calendars to mixin every hours. For each event copied from your calendar, we do this process:
- We try to match the mixin activities type with your event as follow:
- If there is a location specified, a date and no what (title for the event) we create a location
- If there are multiple locations (i.e. using the syntax with the ; “1 Baker Street; Home”) or multiple whats (i.e. using the syntax “Watching a movie; Playing Wii” in the event title) or the event title ends up with a “?”, we create a proposition
- If there is a date and the title contains “free” or “available” (we accept an optional location), or if the title and location are empty we create an availability
- Else we create a plan
- If there are any attendees in your event, we will try to find registered user by email on mixin. If we find a registered user, we will show him as invited in mixin. If the attendee is not a registered user, we will create a guest account for him in mixin, we do not send any emails. If he joins mixin later, this activity will be part of his agenda.
If your event has been updated in your calendar we will synchronize the changes in mixin unless you edit the event in mixin. In that case, we break the synchronization link. You can always invite attendees and add medias in mixin, this will not break the link but theses changes won’t be synchronized back to your calendar.
- If you invite more attendees from your calendar they won’t be updated in mixin if the event has already been copied to mixin
- If your event is deleted in your calendar, it won’t be deleted in mixin
- Whoever is the event owner in your calendar, you will be the activity owner in mixin
- For the moment you cannot subscribe to your ICal or Outlook calendar BUT you can still create activities from these clients simply by adding mixin@mixin.com as a guest to the event
- There are no way to create wishes from your external calendar
- We do not copy your events which are older than 1 year
Coming soon: a better GCalendar integration.
