[Eesic] Thunderbird Calendar

[Jim Kortze]

Hey guys,

If you're still using Thunderbird for email rather than the zimbra 
website, and would like a desktop calendar as well, you can get your 
zimbra calendar on thunderbird.  Directions are below.

-Slim




Open Thunderbird and go to Tools -> Add-Ons -> Get Add-ons

The add on is called "Lightning."  You might see it there on the front 
page, if not, you can search for it on the top right.

Click on Lightning and then "Add to Thunderbird."  Follow whatever 
directions it gives you, you should have to restart thunderbird for it 
to take effect.

Once you've restarted thunderbird, if the calendar doesn't open in a tab 
automatically, click the little calendar icon in the top right. of the 
Thunderbird window, which will open it.

On the left side, you'll see a "Calendar" pane that has a "Home" 
calendar.  You can right click and delete it if you want, it doesn't 
serve much purpose.

To add zimbra, right click in that pane and select "New Calendar." 
You'll have a pop up window open, you want to select "On the Network," 
and click next.

On the next screen, make sure "iCalendar (ICS)" is selected.  You now 
have to put in the location.  Your calendar location is going to be 
http://zimbra.jlab.org/home/username@jlab.org/Calendar  where you 
replace "username" with your jlab username.  Click next.

Give the calendar a name of some sort, then hit next.  Hit finished, and 
you should be prompted to enter your user jlab name and password, just 
like when you set up mozilla.  Save them so that you don't have to do 
this continually.

You should now see your zimbra stuff on the calendar.  Right click on 
the name of your calendar in the calendar pane, select properties, and 
uncheck "read only" if you want to be able to edit your calendar from 
thunderbird.

To view others calendars, you can add them to thunderbird just as you 
added your own.  You can then check/uncheck whose calendar you'd like to 
view so the interface doesn't get cluttered.


-- 
Jim Kortze
EESIC DCE
Jefferson Lab