CALENDAR HELP

With our active calendar, it's easy to identify and remember events that you want to attend.

Click an action to learn how to do it. Click again to hide the instructions.

View and search for events

Browse the calendar

You can navigate to a date in the future or past.

To view the previous or next time period, click the navigation arrows.

Search for events

You can type terms in the box to search for events.

Search for events that contain certain terms.	Type a search term or terms into the search box, and then click Go.
An orange search results bar appears above the calendar.	If the search results bar looks like this, search for a different term.
Click Clear to start a new search.	Clicking clear removes the search criteria and displays all the calendar events.
Tips	• When the previous and next buttons at the top of the calendar are active, click them to see matching events in the past or future. • To learn more about interpreting and getting better search results, click Help in the search results bar.

Take actions on events

Add events to your personal calendar

See an event that you want to attend? Add it directly to your own personal calendar.

Select one or more events on the calendar.
Click Add to My Calendar.
In the Event Actions window, select your calendar type.
Tips	• If your personal calendar type isn't listed, you can download event information in the form of an iCalendar (.ics) file. iCalendar is a standard format that you can import into most calendar programs. To download event information, under Event Actions, select Download event info. • To learn more about adding events to calendars or downloading event information, click the Help link at the top of the Event Actions window.

Set e-mail reminders

Afraid you'll forget about an event you see on our calendar? Send yourself a reminder.

Select one or more events on the calendar.
Click E-mail Reminder.
In the Event Actions window, type your name and e-mail address. Click Set Reminder.
Tip	To learn more about setting reminders, click the Help link at the top of the Event Actions window.

Set text message reminders

Is your cell phone what keeps you connected? Select the txt msg options to receive event reminders and other information as text messages. (Please note that, in France, only SFR phones are eligible for this service.)

Select one or more events on the calendar.
In the Other event actions list, select Remind me by txt msg or Txt me event info.
In the Event Actions window, type your cell phone number and select your carrier. Click Set Reminder.	For reminders, also select when you want to receive them.
Tip	To learn more about sending event information to your cell phone, click the Help link at the top of the Event Actions window.

Forward events to friends

Want to get some friends together to attend an event? One click takes you to a web page where you can e-mail information about the event to up to ten friends.

Select one or more events on the calendar.
In the Other event actions list, select Forward to friends.
In the Event Actions window, type your friends e-mail addresses and a note. Click Send E-mail to send a message that contains the event information and your note.
Tip	To learn more about forwarding events to friends, click the Help link at the top of the Event Actions window.

Arrange to be notified if events change

Having an event on your personal calendar doesn't do much good if the event time or location changes after you add the event. For events that really matter, arrange to be notified in case something changes.

Select one or more events on the calendar.
In the Other event actions list, select Notify me of changes.
In the Event Actions window, type your name and e-mail address. Click Set Notification.
Tip	To learn more about event notifications, click the Help link at the top of the Event Actions window.

Print the calendar

One click opens the current view of the calendar in a printer-friendly window.

Click Print at the top of the calendar.
In the printer-friendly window, on the File menu, click Print Preview.
If necessary, adjust the page size and orientation, and then click Print.
Tip	To see colors in the printed version, set your Internet browser to print background colors

Subscribe to calendars

Receive calendar updates by e-mail or remove yourself from our e-mail list

You can add yourself to the distribution list to receive regularly scheduled calendar updates.

On the calendar, click Subscribe.
A Subscribe to e-mail section appears at the top of the subscription options. Enter your e-mail address in the box, and then click Subscribe to E-mail.
To remove yourself from our distribution list, click the opt-out link at the bottom of the e-mail message.

Receive a calendar RSS or Atom feed

When you subscribe to the calendar's RSS or Atom feed, calendar updates come to you. You can easily subscribe from your news reader program.

What are RSS and Atom feeds?

On the calendar, click Subscribe.
On the Subscribe page, click the RSS or XML button.
If you use Safari, the feed displays right in the browser. If you use Internet Explorer or Firefox and click one of the buttons, the code shows for your calendar, and you can copy/paste the URL into your news reader. Firefox may not be able to display the Atom feed. If that's the case, you can get the URL from the RSS feed, and after you paste the URL into your reader, replace `.rss` with `.xml`.

What are RSS and Atom feeds?

RSS and Atom are types of XML code used to feed ever-changing news or other data to you. You view and subscribe to feeds from a program called an RSS or news reader or aggregator. In your reader, you can collect the feeds from the sites you're interested in, so you can keep up-to-date without having to remember where the sites are or navigate all over the Web to get the information.

Tip Programs that read RSS or Atom feeds are available free on the Web. To find out about a few of them, you might start by searching the Web for "rss reader."

Many feed readers treat RSS and Atom feeds the same way. However, Atom feeds use XML namespaces, which help in developing applications with web syndication feeds. For a brief overview of the differences, try the Atom Compared to RSS 2.0 section of the Atom page in the Wikipedia.

I want to subscribe to a calendar feed.

Add this calendar to your calendar list in iCal, Sunbird, or similar calendar program

You can subscribe to this calendar by adding it to your calendars in iCal, Sunbird, or similar calendar program that can accept iCalendar feeds. When you subscribe this way, you have a live copy of our calendar right where you need it. Our updates automatically show up in your subscribed view, and you can easily see where our event schedule conflicts with your personal or business schedule.

In your calendar program, choose the command for subscribing to a calendar (or remote calendar). In iCal this is on the Calendar menu; in Sunbird it's on the File menu.
Where the dialog box asks for the calendar address, enter the following URL:
http://www.trumba.com/calendars/calendarname.ics

replacing calendarname with the name of our published calendar.

Tip To find the name of our calendar, click the RSS button. The URL for the calendar shows calendarname.rss. Just replace .rss with .ics to get the iCalendar feed's URL.