iCal3 supports (for the first time in iCal) connections to calendars using the CalDAV standard. This works sort of - good enough to make it attractive to us as a standard calendar format. The main advantage is our users can connect to their calendar from a web browser (e.g. when travelling), update it, and any changes will get reflected back to their iCal. A big improvement over iCal2 (which didn't allow this).

Trouble is that Daylite doesn't initially recognise CalDAV calendars existing (as a Sync option). But that can be fixed - if you delete a Daylite Category, for some reason this forces the Sync preference to reset and re-load the calendars from iCal. Then the CalDAV calendar names appear in the sync list, and you can tick them as targets for your sync from Daylite. Great! Except... when you actually sync what happens is that Daylite creates new "local" calendars in iCal with same names as the CalDAV ones, and proceeds to sync with them! The CalDAV ones are ignored. And unsurprisingly the new local calendars don't sync with the CalDAV server.

I'd like the Daylite Calendar to be the main one (naturally enough) but there are too many idiosyncrasies about how Daylite talks to iCal for this to be possible right now. Hopefully in the longer term Daylite will learn how to speak 'iCal' (or even better, CalDAV) and this problem will go away...

Given that for now our 'main' calendar is iCal linked to the shared CalDAV server (with in theory Daylite being a reflection of this via iSync). Not so good if Daylite can't pick up what is going on in iCal. Any suggestions how to get around this problem?

we are having the same problem. we have mac os x server set up for sharing calendars and set up daylite as a central database.

any way to get daylite to sync with server based calendars? otherwise it is not really useful for us.

Currently Daylite doesn't support synchronization with CalDAV.

When can we expect this functionality?

I have a number of clients who would benefit from it

I agree. I am a trial user of Daylite 3.7.6.

It's failure to connect to other calendars through CalDav is a real problem.

I'm a Zimbra user and it seems to me Zimbra, with its Zimlet protocol, would be the perfect match for Daylite. Except that lack of compatibility with CalDav makes it a non-starter either within Apple Mail.app or Zimbra.

Please address this shortcoming!

Thanks.

This would indeed be a great feature. We are also trying to find a good way of synchronizing the Daylite's calander system to the iCal server on our Mac OS X Server. I hope this could be implemented in one of the next DayLite releases.