Calendar Feeds

DutyMan publishes two calendar feeds to which your members can subscribe and see their club's events and their own duties in their choice of calendar software. The most effective use of this technology is to place up-to-date duty information on your members' phone calendars.

Software products that can read calendar feeds include Google Calendar, Windows Live, IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook. Android and Windows Phone users can synchronise their phone calendars with Google and Windows Live calendars. iPhone users can subscribe directly to the DutyMan calendars.

The Event Feed

This feed publishes a calendar of all events in a club's duty roster.

The event feed can be either Public or Members only.

Public Publish the feed's URL on your website so that anyone can subscribe to your calendar of events.

Members only The feed is restricted to members.

The Duty Feed

This feed publishes the duties for an individual member. Details include date, time, event, duty type, instructions and links to DutyMan web pages for further information and actions.

Security

The members-only event feeds and duty feeds are secured by personalised URLs for each member. Members subscribe to a feed using their personalised URLs which uniquely identify them and give them access to either their own club's events or only their own duties. The personalised URLs are available to members via the >Smartphones menu item after logging in to DutyMan.

Configuration

No configuration settings are required to publish the feeds however setting Notify on the DutyMan Administrator's >Set Up >Notifications page to No suspends publication.

The Events Calendar Feed setting on the DutyMan Administrator's >Set Up >Club page gives the option of Public or Members only and the URL for public calendars. The default is Members only.

Note: DutyMan is responsible only for publishing information via calendar feeds. We cannot provide technical support for reading that information on smartphones or any other device or software.