LMACS doesn't include native support for viewing booking events in a calendar form; however, you can create a custom calendar feed for your LMACS bookings. Creating a custom calendar feed can be useful if you wish to aggregate booking information for a particular user, group of tools or project. By using a custom URL you can generate a specific ICS feed that you can subscribe to in any standard calendar application. This guide describes the procedure to create & subscribe to custom calendar views.
Step-by-step guide
The following parameters can be used together to form a unique URL to generate a calendar feed which will contain all reservations that match the parameters. For each parameters, you can select multiple items by using a comma separated list.
| Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| user_id | Used to select a user or multiple users. | calendars/?user_id=2717 - Generates a calendar with all bookings for a single user calendars/?user_id=5633,6355,7832,4335 - Generates a calendar with all of bookings for users with the listed id’s. |
| tool_id | Used to select a tool or group of tools. | calendars/?tool_id=125,340,299 - Generates a calendar with all bookings for a specific set of tools. |
| project_id | Used to select a project or list of projects. | calendars/?project_id=355 - Generates a calendar with all bookings for a specific project. |
| request_id | Used to select a request or list of requests. | calendars/?request_id=355 - Generates a calendar with all bookings for a specific request. |
| location_id | Used to select a location or locations. | calendars/?location_id=1 - Generates a calendar with all of bookings for location with id = 1. |
Subscribing to a Calendar Feed
- Create a custom URL using the parameters above. Add the selected parameters to the calendar base URL (found in the booking pages - example: https://admin.nanofab.ualberta.ca ).
- You can now subscribe to the feed using your favourite Calendar application.
Google Calendar
- Beside Other Calendars, click the little down arrow and select Add by URL
- Copy and Paste desired url and click Add Calendar.
Apple iCalendar
- Select File -> New Calendar Subscription
- Copy and Paste the url above and click Subscribe.
Microsoft Outlook
- In the calendar pane, right click Other Calendars and select Add Calendar -> From Internet
- Copy and Paste the url above and click Ok.
