Sagamore calendar implementation

These Google Calendars are hosted through the Sagamore Hills PTA Google account, editable by the sagamorehillspta@sagamorehillspta.org account, and publicly viewable at http://sagamorehillspta.org/?page_id=24 .

Instructions for simply viewing/subscribing (what most folks want) are on the Sagamore calendar page.

Edit

The following instructions allow you to edit Sagamore calendars (add events). To simply view (not edit) Sagamore calendars, see the Sagamore calendar page.

1. Go to calendar.google.com/a/sagamorehillspta.org
2. Sign in as sagamorehillspta@sagamorehillspta.org
3. Refer to "Google Calendar Help"

List of Calendars

Separate calendars are used to allow end-user filtering.

Sagamore Google Calendars

Name	Description	Calendar ID
Sagamore Hills Elementary School	The main calendar where everything should be if there's no reason for it to be elsewhere	sagamorehillspta.org_oj8q0h49li5ovc3dp8f114ngr8​@group.calendar.google.com
Volunteer @ Sagamore Hills Elementary School	Volunteer opportunities not mentioned in the main calendar (e.g. PTA Board meetings)	sagamorehillspta.org_s7rl2pce7ls9c4s5qbboav4qa4​@group.calendar.google.com
Historic	Prior years' events can be imported to this calendar before deletion to provide historic reference	sagamorehillspta.org_mbkpl0es3ip6jp16bsrhi5rj1o%40group.calendar.google.com

New year

Update the school calendars, like "Sagamore Hills Elementary School" and "Volunteer @ Sagamore Hills Elemenatary School", to include only the upcoming school year's events. Move old events to the "Historic" calendar for future reference. You don't want to delete the prior year calendar and start new because everyone would then need to update their calendars with new calendar locations (URLs).

It can be done a number of not-so-staight-forward ways. Here's one.

1. Export last years' calendars' ics files (Google Calendar on the web, calendar, Calendar settings, ics link) and upload to PTA Google Drive (for backup)
2. Import last years' calendars' ics files into the "Historic" calendar (Google Calendar on the web, Other calendars, Import calendar) and update copy (revision) (of "Historic" Calendar) on PTA Google Drive (for bakcup)
3. Connect to the school calendars that need bulk old event deleting, like "Sagamore Hills Elementary School", with a calendaring program that lets you connect read/write to a Google Calendar and do bulk deleting of old events (I used Evolution)

Website

Use the Google Embeddable Calendar Helper.

If you want to get fancy, check out the jQuery Google Calendar Flow plug-in.

Here's an example appropriate for the sidebar of the Sagamore Hills PTA website circa August, 2013.

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showTitle=0&showNav=0&showDate=0&showPrint=0&showTabs=0&showCalendars=0&showTz=0&mode=AGENDA&height=393&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23ffffff&src=sagamorehillspta.org_oj8q0h49li5ovc3dp8f114ngr8%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238C500B&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style=" border-width:0 " width="262" height="393" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Or an example for the Calendar page…

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?title=Sagamore%20Hills%20Elementary%20School&showTz=0&height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=sagamorehillspta.org_oj8q0h49li5ovc3dp8f114ngr8%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238C500B&src=sagamorehillspta.org_s7rl2pce7ls9c4s5qbboav4qa4%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%23182C57&ctz=America%2FNew_York" style=" border-width:0 " width="604" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Background

See how it setup at Sagamore Hills PTA Google account setup#2013-08-25_19:24_Create_a_calendar.