Ways to Share Calendars

In Zoho Calendar, calendars that are created under My Calendars can be entirely managed by the user who creates the calendar, without any restrictions. These calendars can also be shared among friends, colleagues and groups inside the organization by the owner. While sharing a personal calendar, you can either make the calendar public or you can share the calendar privately with your friend/ colleague/ closed group.

​Public Sharing

You can allow others to access your calendar by making the calendar public. Public sharing helps when you need to share your calendar across a wider group. You can restrict others from accessing your calendar information to View only Free/Busy information or View event details. Others cannot make changes or edit events in a public calendar. 

Steps to Make a Calendar Public

1. Log in to Zoho Calendar.
2. Right-click the calendar under My Calendars from the left pane of the calendar window and click Edit (or) Go to Settings  > Calendar  > My Calendars and click on the calendar you want to share publicly.
   
3. Under Sharing and permissions > Public access, enable public access for the calendar by selecting either View only Free/Busy and View Event Details from the drop-down.
   
4. Click on copy link near iCal or HTML to copy the respective iCal/HTML URL for this public calendar and use it to share the calendar.
   
5. Enter the email address of the individuals or groups under the Mail to option in Public access and click Send to share the calendar link.
   
6. Once you enter the email ID and send it, the calendar link will be emailed to the respective person/group and they can subscribe to the calendar by clicking on the link.
7. Under the Link to option, copy the HTML code of the calendar and embed this calendar in your website.
   
8. Using the Embed calendar button, the user can subscribe to the calendar embedded in the website. The calendar will be embedded as a button on the website. 

​Organization Sharing

You can share your calendar with all the members of your organization using the Share with org option. When you enable org sharing for a particular personal calendar, the shared personal calendar will be available for your org members. The members can subscribe to this calendar and it will be added to their list. 

Steps to enable org sharing for your calendar

1. Log in to Zoho Calendar.
2. Right-click the calendar under My Calendars from the left pane of the calendar window and click Edit (or) Go to Settings > Calendar  > My Calendars and click on the calendar you want to share with your organization.
   
3. Under Sharing and permissions > Organization permissions, Click on Share this calendar to your organization drop-down and Select permission for your org sharing between View only Free/Busy or View Event Details.
   
4. Your org members will now be able to subscribe to this calendar.

​Private Sharing

If you want to share your calendar only with specific people or groups, you can enable the private sharing feature in Zoho Calendar. Making your calendar public might not be ideal always as your schedule becomes exposed to everyone. In that case, you can limit the number of people accessing your calendar by sharing the private URL with specific people. 

Steps to enable private sharing for your calendar using URL

1. Log in to Zoho Calendar.
2. Right-click the calendar under My Calendars from the left pane of the calendar window and click Edit (or) Go to Settings  > Calendar  > My Calendars and click on the calendar you want to share privately.
   
3. To share your calendar privately, go to the Private URL section under Sharing and permissions.
   
4. Click on iCal to copy the private iCal URL for the calendar (or) click on HTML to copy the HTML code for the private calendar under the Private URL section of the Calendar.

​Sharing with Individuals and Groups

Share your calendars privately with your colleague or any group having a Zoho account by just entering the name of your colleague or the name of the group. You can also choose from the following access permissions when sharing your calendar:

View Free/Busy

The person/group you have shared the calendar with can only view the free/busy status of your calendar.

View Event Details

The person/group you have shared the calendar with can view the event details of your calendar.

Edit Event Details

The person you have shared the calendar with can edit the event details in the specific calendar. 

Delegate or Manage

The person you have shared the calendar with can manage and make changes to the calendar on your behalf. They can even share your calendar on your behalf.

Steps to share your calendar with individuals/groups

1. Log in to Zoho Calendar.
2. Right-click the calendar under My Calendars from the left pane of the calendar window and click Edit (or) Go to Settings  > Calendar  > My Calendars and click on the calendar you want to share.
   
3. Click on + Add Individual / + Add group under Sharing and permissions and enter the email address of the individual having a Zoho account or the group name respectively.
   
4. Select the permission for the individual from View Free/Busy, View Event Details, Edit Event Details and Delegate (Manage calendar) in the drop-down.
   
5. For groups, select permission from View Free/Busy and View Event Details in the drop-down.
   
6. Click Share to share your calendar.

The share calendars can be viewed by navigating to Settings > Calendars > Shared Calendars. You can view them in the calendar grid under the Shared Calendars section of the left menu.