I use iCal, and I have a remote office where staff are subscribed to my calendar so they can set appointments for me. It's called "John's Calendar".

When I started using Daylite, I started using categories of events on my calendar -- Meetings, Conference Call, etc.

When I started syncing Daylite and iCal, it created NEW iCal calendars for each of my categories. So, inside Daylite "John's Calendar" is now a category option, and in iCal, "Meetings" and "Conference Call" etc. are all new calendars each holding only appts. related to that category.

So, now, my remote staff, since they're only subscribed to "John's Calendar" only see what I categorize as "John's Calendar", but not "Meetings" or "Conference CAlls" or whatever.

Of course, that won't do. They need to see them all. Help!

I've been putting all appointments into "Daylite Calendar" category. Your only other option to multiple categories and multiple iCal calendars, unless you want to publish them all for all to see.

You'll agree, Howard, that means we have to change our ways of doing work to accomodate the poor design of DayLite's calendar synch. The whole idea of having categories is to be able to use them, and the whole idea of synching with iCal is to be able to make things easier not harder.

Changing all our tasks or appointments to ONE category to get them all in one iCal calendar means the categories function in DayLite is rendered useless. Having 35 calendars in iCal for 35 categories that our tasks or projects or appoitnments fall under in DayLite is equally ridiculous.

Two ways they could avoid the problem... IMHO... one would be to allow dual categories on items, so an item could be related to "Conference" and "iCal" where only the iCal category items would be set to go to iCal via synch. Another would be to give people a choice, make 35 or X new calendars in iCal or automatically send all your iCal Tasks/Appointments to one iCal calendar called DayLite for example.

Imran

Sorry, but my reply above was meant for another thread. I have no idea how it got here!

Now as far as lawyervon's predicament, you have a valid point Imran- that it would help if there were either multiple categories allowed for appointments, or perhaps even better, keywords, as in Contacts.

In lieu of that, perhaps you could use the Appointment type indicator, instead of categories to accomplish what you want. There is a pull down menu in the Appointment edit sheet (just to the right of the Appt. name), that let's you select from among these types: Appointment, Event, Outbound Call, Inbound Call, Chat, Meeting, Video. If you use these, then you could use only 1 category for all appointments (i.e. John's Calendar) and you might have all your bases covered. One level better would be if Daylite allowed you to edit and add event types. Right now they are pre-defined and can't be changed.