Bring in an outside calendar

Half of what families ask “is that on the calendar?” about isn’t yours — it’s the parish’s, the athletic league’s, the diocese’s. 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 — “Parish 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 youth-group jargon nobody 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.