Calendar
SOGo calendars are an important tool of collaboration with your team members.
Share your Personal Calendar
Your personal calendar must be visible for your peers to see; this way they can tell where you are at any given moment. These are the steps to do share your personal calendar.
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Click on the "
" menu next to your calendar. Mind that you have to scroll in the context menu. -
Choose "Any Authenticated User"–all SOGo users will have access to this calendar.
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Public: "View All"
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Confidential: "View the Date & Time"
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Private: None
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Choose "Public Access" and set all to none if there isn’t a really good reason somebody unauthenticated should access your calendar.
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Public: None
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Confidential: None
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Private: None
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Shared Calendars in SOGo
In SOGo’s calendar view you’ll find a "Subscriptions" section in your sidebar. Click on the round "+" sign to search for a shared calendar.

Popular shared calendars:
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VSHN Company
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VSHN Events
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Internal Education
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Interest Groups
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VSHN Tower
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VSHN Meeting Room
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VSHN Entrance
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Personal calendars of your colleagues
Rename the calendar with the 3 dots not via properties, so it will be ordered alphabetically after renaming. |
Create Recurring Meetings for Work/Interest Groups
Use Interest Groups to send invites for recurring meetings for interest groups. Like that we are able to do changes to recurring meetings even though the original organizer is unavailable.
Add the calendar in SOGo like in the pic below:

After that create the appointment with that calendar via sogo.vshn.net(SOGo in web browser).
Clients for Calendar
You are free to use your local calendar client. There are people using Evolution and Thunderbird, and we are using most probably a ton of other clients.
Below you’ll find some tips for different clients.
Access your Calendars from Evolution
If you use GNOME Evolution you can access your SOGo calendars following these steps.
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In SOGo, click on the "
" menu next to your calendar. Copy the first field, labeled "CalDAV URL" to your clipboard. -
Open the
dialog box. -
Click the Add button and select the "Calendar" option.
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Select the "CalDAV" type.
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Enter the URL copied in the previous step.
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Enter your username in the "User" field.
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Click the Find Calendars button.
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You will be asked for your password. Enter it and a list of possible calendars will appear. Select the one you want, choose a color and a name for it, and click OK to close the dialogs.
The same procedure applies to contacts (using CardDAV) and task lists (using CalDAV). |
Access your Calendars from Thunderbird
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Go to thunderbird Calendar and click on
+
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Choose "on the network"
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In SOGo, click on the "
" menu next to your calendar. Copy the second field, labeled "WebDAV ICS URL" to your clipboard. -
Paste the personal.ics link from above in and your username.
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Click on the calendars you want to join and click subscribe.
Access your Calendars from macOS Calendar
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Start macOS Calerndar and open the Settings (
Command + ,
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Choose "Accounts" in the top bar
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Hit the
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button and choose "other CalDAV Account…" -
Enter your E-Mail Address with the
.net
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If this does not work, you can choose the account type
Advanced
and enter the following settings.
Access your Calendars from iOS
Unsubscribe from all except your own calendar in sogo.vshn.net web client or else the phone gets overwhelmed and will not sync. |
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Go to the iOS
Settings
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Go to Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add CalDAV Account
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Add the following settings
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Server: sogo.vshn.net
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Username: firstname.surname
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Password: you know this part
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Description: whatever you choose
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Bonus: Holiday Calendar
If you want to add a calendar with the official holidays in Zurich, add a new calendar of type "On The Web" with the following URL: fcal.ch/privat/fcal_holidays.ics.php?hl=de&klasse=3&geo=3055.