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Help/FAQs

Basic questions

1. What is MarkThisDate?
2. What do I need to add a calendar to my calendar app?
3. How do I add a calendar of events to MarkThisDate?
4. Which calendar applications do you support?
5. Do you also support other than calendar apps?

Register and login questions

1. I didn’t receive a confirmation email after I registered
2. I forgot my username and/or password
3. My combination of username and password don’t seem to work

Adding Calendars

1. Do I have to register at MarkThisDate to add events to my calendar?
2. How do I import a calendar in Outlook?
3. How do I delete a calendar from Outlook?
4. How do I import a calendar in Lotus Notes?
5. How do I import a calendar in Hiptop/Sidekick?
6. How do I import a calendar in Palm Desktop?
7. How do I add a calendar to Entourage?
8. How do I subscribe to calendars?
9. What if syncing with my PDA doesn’t work as expected?
10. Why don't my externally added calendars in Outlook 2007 sync with my mobile phone or PDA?
11. I only see one event in my calendar?
12. I updated my calendar information in MarkThisDate.com, but its not immediately reflected in my Google calendar, why?

Adding calendars of events to MarkThisDate

1. How do I add a calendar to MarkThisDate.com?
3. How do I upload a public calendar address
3. How do I add a calendar manually?
4. Can I upload calendars of events with CSV or XML?
5. Is adding calendars to MarkThisDate completely free?
6. I added a calendar but can’t find it on the website?
7. How do I update my calendar?
8. Can I remove my calendar?

Sharing Calendars

1. Can I create a button for my website that would allow someone to easily subscribe to my calendar?
2. How does a calendar widget work?
3. What does a calendar widget look like?
4. Can I adjust the layout of the widget?
5. Will my users need to create an account?
6. Do you place ads in the calendar widget?

Basic Questions

1. What is MarkThisDate?
MarkThisDate is the largest directory of active calendars on the web. We serve over 3500 calendars in different categories like sports, holidays and business. We support over 15 of the world’s most used calendar applications like Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar and Netvibes, desktop apps like PDF and Excel, online readers and personal start pages like Google Reader, My AOL and My Yahoo.

2. What do I need to add a calendar to my calendar app?
All you need is an electronic calendar application. If you don’t use one we also support PDF and Excel so you can print the calendar and hang it on your wall!

3. How do I add a calendar to MarkThisDate?
You have to register and log in to add your calendar to MarkThisDate. Add as many calendars as you like. You can add your calendar manually or by uploading a public calendar address. Contact us if you have any questions about adding your calendar(s).

4. Which calendar applications do you support?
We support the following of the world’s most used calendar applications: Outlook, Lotus Notes, iCal, 30 Boxes, ePointment, Google calendar, Outlook 2007, Vista Calendar, Calgoo, Hiptop/Sidekick Horde), Korganizer, Kronolith, Microsoft Works 6.0/7.0 Microsoft Works 8.0 (and higher), Mozilla Calendar, Novell Evolution, Palm Desktop, Sunbird and Zimbra.

5. Do you also support apps other than calendar apps?
Certainly. Our calendars are well suited for use in other than specific calendar applications. We also support the following desktop apps, online readers and personal start pages: PDF (Acrobat), Excel, Bloglines, Netvibes, Google homepage, Google Reader, My AOL, My MSN, Newsgator, Pageflakes, Plaxo, Protopage, Rojo and My Yahoo.

Register and Login questions

1. I didn’t receive a confirmation email after I registered.
After registration a confirmation email is sent right away. Check your spambox if you didn’t receive one within 5 minutes. If there’s also no confirmation mail please contact customer support.

2. I forgot my username and/or password
No problem. Visit our lost password and username page, fill in the email address you signed up with and we will email your username and a new password. When you login you can change the password again to one you can easily remember.

3. My combination of username and password don’t seem to work
The first time you login we remember your username and password. Make sure you didn’t misspell both. Retype both. If you then still can't log in you ask for your username and a new password or contact customer support.

Adding Calendars

1. Do I have to register at MarkThisDate to add events to my calendar?
No, registering is only needed if you want to create your own calendar of events.

2. How do I import a calendar in Outlook?
a. Select ‘Outlook’ on the downloadpage and save the file somewhere on your computer. When you open the file directly after downloading it imports only the first event instead of the complete calendar
b. Open Outlook and select ‘import/export’ in the category ‘File’ in your menu. Note for multi calendar users: select the calendar where you like to import this information
c. Select ‘import a iCalendar or vCalendar (.vcs)’
d. Browse to the file you just downloaded en select ‘next’
e. The file is now saved to your calendar

3. How do I delete a calendar from Outlook?
a. Select your agenda in Outlook
b. In the menu bar select ‘view’
c. Select ‘current view’
d. Select ‘by category’
e. Find the calendar you want to delete and select it
f. Press ‘delete’

4. How do I Import a calendar in Lotus Notes?
a. Select Lotus Notes on the downloadpage and save the file somewhere on your computer
b. Start Notes
c. Create a new mail memo
d. Attach the iCalendar file you just downloaded and save the memo as Draft
e. Open the Draft memo up and right click on the attachment
f. From the popup select “View” to see all entries in the file
g. Select those you wish to import and then click on Import Selected or Import All
h. Go to inbox and accept meetings

5. How do I import a calendar in Hiptop/Sidekick?
a. Select Hiptop/Sidekick on the downloadpage and save the file somewhere on your computer
b. Pick the calendar program you are using (select MS txt)
c. Specify the events file to import ()
d. Resolve import conflicts
e. Select date format (Select month/day)
You can also find more info at the Sidekick® Help Page

6. How do I import a calendar in Palm Desktop?
a. Select ‘Palm Desktop’ on the download page and save the file somewhere on your computer
b. Select in Palm Desktop ‘File’ and select ‘import/export’
c. Browse to the file you have downloaded and select ‘import’

7. How do I add a calendar to Entourage?
a. Select Entourage on the download page and save the file somewhere on your computer
b. Rightclick the file, select 'Open with' and choose Entourage. If Entourage is your default calendar you can also doubleclick the file.

Macintosh: iCal, Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, Zimbra
Windows: Vista Calendar, Microsoft Works (Version 8 or higher), Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, Zimbra
Linux: Novell Evolution, KOrganizer, Kronolith, Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird, and Zimbra

And of course a few great online calendar tools like Google Calendar, 30Boxes and Epointment.

9. What if syncing with my PDA doesn’t work as expected?
We have received reports from users that the synchronization between their PDA and Outlook does not work as expected. One of the reported problems is that events, although correctly imported in Outlook, show up in their PDA as all day events or appear to be a day earlier. We do know what causes this problem (read the Pocket PC FAQ) but unfortunately we can’t solve it.

10. Why don't my externally added calendars in Outlook 2007 sync with my mobile phone or PDA?
If you add a calendar to Outlook 2007 it doesn't sync with your mobile phone or PDA. Only your personal calendar syncs. The solution to get external events synced with you mobile phone or PDA is:
1. Save the file somewhere on your computer
2. Go to "file/import and export/import iCal or vCal file" and select the file you downloaded
3. You then get the following question: "Do you want to open this calendar as a new calendar or import it items into your calendar?" with the options: 'open as new', 'import', 'cancel'
4. When you choose 'import' all events will be added to your personal calendar and because this one syncs with your mobile phone or PDA all events will be added now.

11. I only see one event of the calendar I added?
You probably opened and saved the file directly after you downloaded it. When you save it directly only the first event of the calendar will be added instead of the complete calendar. When you download the file to your computer first and then import the file in your application you will see all events.

12. I updated my calendar information in MarkThisDate.com, but its not immediately reflected in my Google calendar, why?
Google's servers cache copies of your MarkThisDate calendar iCal files and then periodically refetch them. This can result in a delay between when you update your MarkThisDate calendar and when the changes appear on your Google calendar.

Adding calendars of events to MarkThisDate

1. How do I add a calendar to MarkThisDate.com?
There are several ways to add calendars to MarkThisDate:
a. Upload a public calendar address
b. Add a calendar manually
c. CSV upload (contact customer support): for one time uploads of large amounts of events
d. XML interface (API): for companies/websites with a continuous stream of new events

2. Upload a public calendar address
You have to sign up and log in to upload a public calendar. After you logged in click 'Submit a calendar'. Now you can choose either to add a calendar manually or with a public calendar address (.ics). Calendar files are defined according to standard (toevoegen). Therefore calendar applications can import them. You can recognize these files by their extension, which is .ics. The location of these files is called the public calendar address:
1. Go to “Upload public calendar”
2. Add a calendar name and description. The more precise and accurate the description is the better the calendar can be found and will be indexed by search engines
3. Enter the appropriate public calendar address (beginning with http:// or webcal:// and ending on .ics)
4. Click “Save Calendar”
5. When you are happy with the result click “Publish calendar”

3. Add a calendar manually
You have to sign up and log in add a calendar. After you logged in click 'Submit a calendar'. Now you can choose either to add a calendar manually or with a public calendar address (.ics). Choose “Add calendar manually” and fill in all of the following fields:

Time zone
First make sure you add the events in the right time zone. You can change the time zone at the top of the form

Calendar name
When you add the name of the calendar it’s best to use a short description or tags like ‘Formula 1 season 2009’

Description
With ‘description’ you can give more information about the calendar and the events that are part of the calendar

Events
A calendar often consists of multiple events. Under ‘events’ you add all the events that are part of your calendar. For example the calendar Formula 1 season 2008 consists of 18 races and therefore your calendar contains 18 events. For every event in your calendar add a title, location, start date and end date and start time and end time.

Title
The title of an event is the actual happening. For instance the World Cup final France-Italy, a concert or the marathon of NY.

Location
The location is not a required field but it can benefit some users of your calendar when you add one. For example if their calendar application support maps (e.g. Google calendar).

Date and time
For every event in your calendar add a start and end date. An event can have a start and and end time, but can be an all day event. A good example of all-day events are holidays like Boxing Day. And also when you don’t know the times but still want to add the events you can add them as all day events. Just put in your description that you don’t know the times…may be someone else does and adds them with a review.

Delete events
When you added an event that you want to delete, just click the button ‘delete’ behind the time boxes.

Add e new event
To add a new event just click ‘add event’ on the bottom of the page for an empty event form.

Save a calendar
To save a calendar just click ‘Save’ on the bottom of the page. Tip: when you’re adding a lot of events, periodically save your calendar because it’s a pity loosing you’re calendar when something unexpected happens.

Publish your calendar
After you added and saved your calendar it’s still not visible and usable. You have to publish your calendar first. After you saved your calendar just click the button ‘publish calendar’ on the top or bottom of the page to publish your calendar to the website.

4. CSV upload/ XML (API)
By using our API large amount of data and events can easily be added and used. Read more about our API or contact our customer support .

5. Is adding calendars to MarkThisDate Free?
Absolutely! The features you see today on MarkThisDate will always be free. We also provide premium services for those who need more from MarkThisDate.

6. I added a calendar but can’t find it on the website?
After you saved your calendar it’s not directly active yet. Check if you published your calendar already.

7. How do I update my calendar?
Go to ‘My calendars’ and click on the calendar title to edit your calendar. If you added a calendar with a url, just click ‘Save calendar’ and it will be updated. If you added events manually just add events and click ‘Save calendar’. Your calendar will also appear on top of the list in the ‘Last updated’ calendars.

8. Can I remove a calendar I added to MarkThisDate?
Sure you can. Go to ‘My calendars’ and click on the calendar title to edit your calendar. On the bottom you can delete your calendar.

Sharing Calendars