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Set-Up Syncing Between Sunbird and Google Calendar

Sunbird Home Page

Sunbird is a stand-alone calendar application that can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X and linux.

Provider for Google Calendar Page

This is an add-on that enables syncing between Sunbird and Google Calendar.

In this tutorial I’ll explain how-to set-up Sunbird to sync with Google Calendar.

1. Download Add-On
2. Install the Add-On
3. Restart Sunbird
4. Subscribe to Remote Calendar
5. Select Calendar on the Network
6. Google Calendar and Location
7. Enter Username and Password
8. Enter Calendar Name and Colour
9. Enter Username and Password
10. Calendar Created
11. Repeat for Multiple Calendars

Requirements:

• Mozilla Sunbird 0.8
• Google Calendar Account

1. Start off with downloading the ‘Provider for Google Calendar’ Add-on here, by simply clicking on ‘Download Now’.
2. Now open Sunbird and go to Tools -> Add-ons, Click on ‘Install’ and navigate to the file you downloaded in Step 1, click on it and click ‘Open’. Then Sunbird will then make you wait 5 seconds before you can click ‘Install’, after this time click ‘Install’.

   

3. Once you’ve clicked install and Sunbird has loaded the Add-on you’ll be asked to restart Sunbird so click on the ‘Restart Sunbird’ button and wait for Sunbird to reload.

   

4. The add-on will already be enabled so we can continue setting-up the syncing. Go to File -> Subscribe to Remote Calendar.

   

5. On the next window select ‘On the Network’ and click ‘Next’.

   

6. On the next window select ‘Google Calendar’ and the ‘Location’ field we need to fill with an address from Google Calendar, so do the following:
   1. Go to http://www.google.com/calendar/, and log-in.
   2. On the calendar click on ‘Settings’ under the ‘My calendars’ tab on the left hand side.

      

   3. On the next page you’ll see all of your calendars, click on one of them you wish to use with Sunbird.

      

   4. On the ‘Calendar Details’ scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the ‘XML’ icon in the ‘Private Address’ section.

      

   5. Then a long URL will appear, copy this URL and paste it into Sunbird’s location field and click ‘Next’.
7. You’ll then need to enter the username and password you use to log-in to Google Calendar and click ‘OK’.
8. Give a name for your calendar (Mostly useful if you intend on having several calendars for different categories, like Birthdays, Work, etc.) and select a colour, before clicking ‘Next’.

   

9. You may be asked to enter you username and password again for Google Calendar.
10. You should then be presented with a message saying your calendar has been created and you can click ‘Finish’.

    

11. If you have more calendars to add repeat steps 4 – 10.