Using Mozilla Lightning with Bedework

Mozilla Lightning is a Thunderbird plug-in and CalDAV client that integrates well with Bedework. Bedework calendars are accessed from Bedework's CalDAV server. The following instructions were compiled using Lightning version 0.7 and Bedework 3.4.1.

1. Right-click within the calendar listing panel in Lightning (under "Calendar Name") and select "New Calendar".

2. At the prompt for creating a new calendar, select "On the Network".

3. At "Create New Calendar", select CalDAV and enter the path to the desired calendar via Bedework's user or public CalDAV server, e.g.:

Subscriptions from the Bedework quickstart:

• http://localhost:8080/ucaldav/user/caluser1/calendar
• http://localhost:8080/pubcaldav/public/Athletics

Subscriptions from a production Bedework: you must know the domain name and contexts provided for your production instance. By default the contexts are "/ucaldav" and "/pubcaldav":

• https://yourdomainname/ucaldav/user/someuser/calendarname
• http://yourdomainname/pubcaldav/public/calendarname

4. Give the subscription a display name and a color: