Adding VIC to your own calendar

One-off adds, your personal booking feed, and how to revoke a feed you've shared.

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The portal never writes into your calendar by itself. You choose what to bring across, in one of two ways.

One-off: add a single item

Every booking row and every event page offers Google Cal and .ics. These make a copy in your calendar at that moment. If the event later moves or is cancelled, your copy won't know.

Subscribing: your personal booking feed

At the bottom of My upcoming on Bookings there's a Copy feed URL line. Subscribe to it once and every room you book appears in your own calendar automatically — and drops out when you cancel.

  1. Open Bookings and click Copy feed URL.
  2. In Google Calendar: go to Other calendarsFrom URL, paste, and add.
  3. In Outlook: Add calendarSubscribe from web, paste, and add.
  4. In Apple Calendar: FileNew Calendar Subscription, paste, and subscribe.

The three kinds of feed

FeedWhat's in itWhere to get it
Your bookingsEvery room reservation you hold, kept up to date.Copy feed URL on Bookings.
A single bookingJust that one reservation, as a downloaded file.The .ics link on the booking row.
A room's availabilityWhen a room is busy — shown only as Booked, with no titles or names.Building staff can share it from the room's admin page.

If you've shared a feed URL by mistake

Feed links can be revoked. Ask building staff to bump your calendar-feed version — the old link dies immediately and you subscribe again with a fresh one. There's no self-service control for this yet, so contact the team.

The feed added, but it's empty
WhyYou have no upcoming bookings. Past ones aren't included.
FixBook something and wait for the calendar app's next refresh.
Your calendar app rejects the URL
WhySome apps want webcal:// rather than https://, and some choke on a partly-copied link.
FixRe-copy with the Copy feed URL button so you get the whole thing, and try swapping https:// for webcal://.
Cancelled bookings still show in your calendar
WhyYou added them as one-off copies rather than subscribing to the feed.
FixDelete those entries by hand and subscribe to the feed instead.