You will use this as your Location for setting up your new calendar in Thunderbird. Click on “Share.”Ĭlick the box next to “Send people a view-only link to your calendar.” We need the ICS link to your Windows Live calendar in order to import it into Lightning.Ĭlick on “Import into another calendar application.”Ī pop-up will appear with a link to your calendar in ICS format. Syncing Lightning to a Windows Live Calendar is a bit different than how you use the CalDAV format to sync your Google and Yahoo calendars.īefore you begin the steps to sync your Windows Live calendar, you want to login to your Windows Live account and head to your calendars. Your_calendar_name shall be the name used for the calendar you want to sync.įollow the same steps after that as syncing your Google Calendar to Lightning to link your Yahoo Calendar to Thunderbird, too.
Your_username will be your primary username for Yahoo services.
When you create your new calendar, you want to put choose “CalDAV” as your option and then enter the Location. Use this format – The same initial steps described above can be followed to sync a Yahoo Calendar with Lightning in Thunderbird.
If you want to change the basic properties of the calendar, you can right click on it.įrom here, you can change the first set of options for the calendar, and you can also choose how often the calendar is refreshed. Lightning will now sync your Google Calendar to Thunderbird for you to view, edit and work with however you choose. Enter your login information for the account and click “Ok.” Upon clicking finish, a new window will pop-up asking you to input your username and password for the calendar you wish to sync. You can now name your calendar in Thunderbird along with choosing a color for it, choosing whether to show your alarms or not as well as associating an e-mail address with the calendar. They are in the form of [name of You can find this information in the Calendar Settings section of Google.Ĭlick “Next” once you have entered in the Location. If you have multiple calendars on Google, you will have to input individual calendar IDs. This is usually your login e-mail address. Your Google Calendar ID is simply the Google e-mail address you use for the primary Calendar. For Location, you want to type in the following: You want to choose “CalDAV” as the calendar type for Google. For a Google Calendar, you want to make sure you click the circle next to “On the Network.” Then, click “Next.” Thunderbird has made it easy to walk through the process of creating a new calendar with Lightning.
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