Do your friends and family use Gmail calendar? If you use the portal calendar, you can migrate your portal calendar to Gmail, allowing friends and family to view your calendar and take advantage of the gmail calendar sharing features. Some initial testing suggests that imported data will be displayed according to the most restrictive sharing settings of either calendar, but test your imported data to be sure. Work with a limited range of calendar contents to avoid unexpected results. The steps to accomplishing this are below:
First, export your portal calendar to your desktop:
1. From within the calendar, select the Options tab, then select Export.
2. Select the calendar to export from the dropdown menu.
3. Choose any date limits you wish to set or leave as is to export the entire calendar, making sure to change the radio button (it does not change automatically when you fill out a date range).
4. Leave format as ical.
5. Choose export, and when prompted save the file export.ics to your PC desktop.
Import the file to Gmail:
1. If you have not already set up your google calendar, follow the google instructions for doing this.
2. Select Settings, then choose the Import tab.
3. Select the export.ics file.
4. Select the calendar that should contain the data.
5. Press the Import button.