My sales and marketing team relies very heavily on Daylite calendaring to handle all of our tasks. Unfortunately, our production team does not, preferring iCal's layout and print capabilities over Daylite. Also, our production manager controls each of the developer's calendars, so it makes sense for him to publish into iCal and have the team subscribe their iCals via iCalX. There really is no need for them to open Daylite as a calendar app.

So, I've been trying really hard to find a way to get our 2 calendar world to connect up. Here's what I thought would work - connect my project manager's iCal to sync with Daylite. He has people's names as individual calendars, so I would be B Sewell. In Daylite, he would sync with B Sewell as a category. Yes, using Categories to manage Users is a little wacky, but aside from making our Category list longer, I didn't see too much of a problem.

Here's what I wanted to see happen. My PM would go into Daylite and create a Smart Calendar labelled "B Sewell". He would assign the Category "B Sewell" AND assign the User "Bill Sewell" and Voila, would be seeing both my iCal production dates and my Daylite Marketing dates.

What happened was the calendar was completely blank. Apparently, you cannot assign a Category and a Source in an "AND" fashion. So, that sucks... I did create a calendar B Sewell just using my Category and that worked, partially.

The next problem was the Test dates we entered into Category "B Sewell" calendar were showing up in my PM's calendar. That made sense because he was the owner. So we switched the new Date entry to "B Sewell" as Category and "Bill Sewell" as owner. For some reason, that date never showed up anywhere.

So, I'm stuck in several directions.

Any ideas?