Carousel Cloud has the ability to extract calendar events from a provided iCal URL and dynamically display those events on your digital signage.
Please Note:
In general, any iCal URL is expected to work in Carousel Cloud but we can’t test every provider, so functionality can not be guaranteed.
We have some dedicated configuration articles posted below for the most common calendar providers, but we are unable to write documentation for and test every iCal URL provider that's out there. Other non-documented iCal providers that some of our customers have successfully used are Blackbaud, 25Live, and Live Whale.
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Make sure the zone dimensions where your event bulletin will be located are large enough to accommodate all of the items in the event bulletin Layout tab, including any possible long event titles. If the zone where the event bulletin is located is too small to display all of the items in the event bulletin layout, rendering errors will occur.
Specific Documented Instructions
General Instructions for Creating an Event Bulletin in Carousel Cloud
Log in to Carousel Cloud and navigate to the zone in which you would like to display the calendar events
Select New Bulletin, then select Dynamic as the bulletin category
Depending on how you want to organize the events, choose one of the 3 types of highlighted event bulletin types
Verify iCal is your Schedule Source, and then paste the iCal URL from your provider into the iCal Feed URL field
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Since the source iCal feed most likely contains multiple items or entries, you will need to choose how to display the items or entries in the event bulletin. As shown in the screenshots below, the options for managing the event bulletin settings can be made from the orange Dynamic and Content tabs at the top of the bulletin editor window.
More information regarding bulletin layout and formatting is explained in this support article
Dynamic Tab
Content Tab
Please Note: The Dynamic Fields List is a breakdown of all the possible iCal data fields Carousel Cloud can receive, and also lists the specific information we are receiving for a given data field from your source iCal URL
After configuring the event bulletin, you can simply hit the orange Publish button in the upper-right corner of the events bulletin screen. The event bulletin creation process is complete!