Syncing your time to iCloud Calendars
OfficeTime for Mac syncs well with iCal. And iCal syncs well with iCloud and all your other devices.
So you should be able to start a timer in OfficeTime and see your day blocked out in the calendar app on your iPhone. You can also schedule a meeting, and as soon as the meeting starts, OfficeTime will import it into the correct project. (You can either have everything in a calendar come into the project of your choice, or you can have OfficeTime smartly look for the project name in your event and bring that into the correct project.)
Does the iPhone/iPad version sync with the calendar app?
Yes and no. It doesn’t directly sync with it. However, if you own the desktop version, it will sync with the desktop which will sync with iCal which will sync with iCloud which will sync back to your calendar app. It sounds complicated but if you’ve got both versions of OfficeTime open it happens automatically and almost instantly. So the end result is, you make an appointment, even with Siri, and OfficeTime records it.
Using iCloud but Not Working?
If you’ve just updated to iCloud, you might have extra calendars such as those from MobileMe. And OfficeTime might still be syncing with one of these old calendars, which does not sync to the cloud and may not even be seen anymore in iCal. (Unfortunately, we’re reliant upon what calendars iCal provides us and it currently tells us about everything.)
The best way to test that you’re still working is to make a new calendar for OfficeTime to sync into. (It’s super easy….)
Open iCal. Choose File->New Calendar->iCloud and give it a name.
In OfficeTime, go to Edit-Edit Projects, click your project, click Edit. Change the sync calendar to your new calendar. OK. OfficeTime will move all of your existing sessions to your new calendar. You can make a new session and it should appear in iCal.
Duplicates: Will the Real Calendar Please Stand Up
If OfficeTime shows you duplicate calendars and you don’t want to create a new one, there’s an easy way to figure out which one is the real one.
Open iCal and click on the ‘Calendar’ button at the top left hand side.
In the list of calendars (both local and iCloud), right-click one of the calendars and choose “Get Info”.
In the “NAME” field, change the name to, let’s say, “Work-iCloud” and click “OK”.
In OfficeTime, go to Edit-Edit Projects, click your project, click Edit and select your newly named calendar.
OfficeTime will now be publishing to the correct calendar.
Using Categories
Want OfficeTime to know what category to assign it to? Just add the category name in brackets to the title of the event. For instance an event called Starbucks [Meeting] will be get your “Meeting” category assigned to it and your hourly rate will be automatically applied.
[ Dec 29: Edited to add tip about renaming your calendar suggested by Lawrence Eaton ]
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Kaio
This happened when iCloud went live. Sometimes you can ADD evtens in your main gmail calendar in iCal (and they may sync) but cannot DELETE evtens in EITHER main or delegate calendars and have them sync. For now the only solution is listed below Hopefully Apple and Google will agree it’s something they should fix.Here is Google’s answer:iCal is not syncing with Google Calendar (sync error 302)Setting up iCloud sync has caused evtens to be wiped from Google Calendar for some of our users who were syncing information between iCal and Google Calendar. In response, we’ve stopped deleting the information until this issue is fixed. Until further notice, deleting any event in iCal will not remove this event from Google Calendar (for iCal 4 users, all changes made after a delete attempt will not be saved in Google Calendar). We’ve contacted Apple and we are actively working on this. We’re also attempting to restore the deleted evtens. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we’ll keep you posted. As a workaround, we suggest you remove event in the Web version of Google Calendar (calendar.google.com). This change would be properly synced with your iCal.
Tsutomu
Hi Shaun et al-Thanks for this very helpful dosiussicn. I’ve been trying to sync an Exchange calendar with Google calendar, and the way I started doing this was first to sync Outlook 2011 to iCal, and then sync iCal to Google Calendar (this is because Outlook and Google calendar cannot sync directly a problem much discussed elsewhere).So now I have all my calendars showing in iCal. However, the Exchange calendar shows up as ON MY MAC, so as others have said does not sync to Google. The only way I have found to get events to show up on Google is to right-click them and manually change them to one of my existing Delegates calendars.My question: Is there a way to change all the events from this ON MY MAC calendar to a Delegate calendar all at once? The Exchange calendar is populated by my school and contains hundreds of events that I would rather not all change manually to the Delegate.Any help would be great!
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Sabi
Dear Shaun:You’re great! Thank you so much. A number of terdahs (in, e.g., Google forums) concern the *apparent* one-way GCAL-to-ICAL sync. The solutionsoffered range from throwing up ones hands to buying expensive ($65) syncing software. Yours is the only posting to actually clarify and solve the problem. The key is to STOP using the ON MY MAC’ series of calendars and replace them with the GMail calendar and its delegates. In particular, the Delegates’ feature allows one to create a series of GCALS to completely parallel whatever ICAL calendars one may have set up (even down to the color selection via right-click-get info’). Thus, the syncing can be done with no compromise of ICAL functionality. Once the calendars are refreshed’, the ICAL entries show up on GCAL. Moreover, ICAL works completely ok even if internet link is down. I’ve tested this: turn off Airport/enter event in ICAL using one of the GCALs for calendar choice’ : the event works fine within ICAL. Then turn airport on/refresh calendars: events show up in GCAL. This even works well for repeating events, which remained a problem with a number of the other fix attempts.Bravo!P.S.: one problem I continue to have is failure to import to GCAL from ICAL only get inscrutable error message