Bring in an outside calendar

Half of what families ask “is that on the calendar?” about isn’t yours — it belongs to the athletic league, the district office, a community partner. Instead of retyping their events, show their calendar inside Lumicura: it becomes its own color in the legend, families can switch it off individually, and it keeps itself current.

Add a calendar

1. Open Calendar and switch to the Imported calendars tab (calendar admins only).
2. Choose Add calendar and name it the way families should see it in the legend — “Athletics Calendar.”
3. Pick where it comes from:
   • A web link — a public calendar address ending in .ics (sites call it “subscribe,” “iCal,” or “webcal”). Paste the whole link, including everything after any ”?”. Lumicura re-checks it on the schedule you pick, from hourly to once a day. Calendars that need a sign-in aren’t supported.
   • A file you upload — a one-time import of an .ics file. To refresh it later, upload a newer file; each upload replaces what came before.
4. Pick its legend color and its audience — everyone, one grade, or board only.

Events appear on the calendar marked as imported, and in each family’s subscribed feed. They fire no reminders and no change or cancel notifications — they’re a read-only mirror of somewhere else’s calendar, and that somewhere else might churn.

Fix what the feed gets wrong

You can’t edit an imported event — but you can rename one (the publisher’s internal shorthand that nobody at your school recognizes) or hide one (the event that doesn’t apply to your school), right from the event’s details. Both survive future syncs. A hidden event stays visible to you, badged, so you can bring it back.

When a feed breaks

Each calendar’s row shows its health — when it last updated and, if it’s failing, what went wrong in plain language: the address answered with something that isn’t a calendar, or the file couldn’t be read. Sync now retries on the spot. If a feed keeps failing, admins get an alert — usually it means the publisher moved or broke their link, and the fix is grabbing the fresh address from their site.

Removing a calendar removes its imported events; the school’s own events are never affected.