Subscriptions

Calendar Events can expose a subscription feed so visitors subscribe once and keep receiving updates — new events appear, changed events update, and removed events disappear — all without them having to revisit your page.

How it’s different from Add to Calendar

Add to Calendar saves one event, one time, and never changes again. Subscribing links the visitor’s calendar app to your live calendar — it keeps checking back on its own and reflects whatever is currently on the widget’s calendars.

Turning it on

Subscribe to Calendar is on by default and shows as a small, secondary link near the widget (not a prominent call to action). Turn it off under Display settings if you don’t want to offer it.

What’s in the feed

The subscription feed mirrors exactly what the widget itself would show — the same calendars and the same lookahead window. A visitor who subscribes never sees more than they would by looking at the page.

Supported calendar apps

The Subscribe to Calendar menu offers five options:

• Apple Calendar — opens via webcal:// so macOS and iOS pick it up automatically
• Google Calendar — adds the feed to calendar.google.com
• Office 365 — adds the feed via outlook.office.com
• Outlook Desktop — opens via webcal:// for the desktop Outlook app
• Outlook.com — adds the feed via outlook.live.com

How often it updates

Subscribing calendar apps check the feed on their own schedule — this varies by provider (Google, for example, typically checks roughly once a day; Apple and Outlook can be more frequent). New events on your calendars show up the next time the visitor’s app checks, not instantly.