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Calendar feed

Account & settings · Subscribe to your band events in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, so they show up next to your own appointments.

What it's for

The calendar feed is a private link that your calendar app subscribes to. It brings in your bands' gigs, rehearsals and other events – from 90 days ago onwards – together with your own availability answer. Your calendar app then keeps it up to date by itself.

When to use it

  • You want band events in the calendar on your phone, without typing them in.
  • You want to see at a glance whether a gig clashes with something else.
  • Your feed link got into the wrong hands and you want to stop it working.

How to

Create your feed

  1. Open the account menu (top right) and select Calendar feed.
  2. Select Create my calendar feed.

Result: You get two links: Subscribe link (webcal) and Direct link (https). Use Copy next to the one your calendar app needs.

Add the feed to your calendar app

  1. Google Calendar: on a computer, next to "Other calendars" click + and choose "From URL". Paste the Direct link (https) and click "Add calendar".
  2. iPhone, iPad or Mac: select Subscribe on the page (or tap the webcal link). Or on iPhone go to Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar and paste the link. On a Mac use File → New Calendar Subscription.
  3. Outlook: in Outlook on the web choose "Add calendar" → "Subscribe from web", paste the Direct link (https) and give it a name.
  4. Back on the Calendar feed page, check Last fetched by a calendar app – it shows that your app has picked up the feed.

Result: Your band events appear in your calendar app. Changes in Pulse follow automatically, but each app decides how often it checks – Google, for example, only every few hours.

Choose which bands are in the feed

You need: Membership in more than one band.

  1. Open Calendar feed.
  2. Under Bands in the feed, tick the bands you want.
  3. Leave all unticked to include every band you are a member of (All my bands).

Result: The choice is saved right away (Feed bands saved). You don't need to subscribe again.

Reset the link

  1. Open Calendar feed and select Generate a new link.
  2. Confirm with Generate a new link.
  3. Remove the old subscription from every calendar app and subscribe again with the new link.

Result: The old link stops working at once.

Turn the feed off

  1. Open Calendar feed and select Turn off feed.
  2. Confirm with Turn off feed.

Result: The link stops working and subscribed calendars no longer update. Remove the calendar from your app as well. You can create a new feed any time.

Permissions and limits

  • Every member has their own feed. It contains events only from bands where your role can see events.
  • Anyone who has the link can see these events, including your availability answers. Keep it to yourself.
  • The feed is read-only: changes made in your calendar app do not go back to Pulse. Answer availability and edit events in Pulse.
  • Event names and descriptions in the feed use the Language set in your profile.

Examples

Gigs on your iPhone

Open Calendar feed on your iPhone, select Subscribe and confirm. Gigs appear as "Gig: …" with your availability in the notes and a link back to the event in Pulse.

You lost your phone

Select Generate a new link so the old link stops working, then subscribe again on your new phone.

Common mistakes

  • Downloading or importing the file instead of subscribing – you get a one-time copy that never updates. Always use "subscribe" or "from URL".
  • Sharing your feed link with the band. Each member should create their own – it also shows their own availability.
  • Generating a new link and forgetting to subscribe again – the old calendar just stops updating.

Troubleshooting

A changed event still shows the old time in my calendar.
Your calendar app hasn't checked the feed yet. Google Calendar can take several hours; Apple and Outlook let you set how often it refreshes, or refresh it by hand. In Pulse the event is always current.
The page says "Not fetched by a calendar app yet."
The subscription didn't work. Copy the Direct link (https) again and paste it completely, using "subscribe" or "from URL" in your calendar app.
An event is missing from my calendar.
Cancelled events and events older than 90 days are left out. Also check Bands in the feed – the band may not be ticked.