There are two alternative ways you can share your calendar with a group of friends who are not yet members of KeepandShare:
- Set sharing on your calendar to be 'public', which allows anyone in the world to see your calendar. You could then email the URL address of your calendar to your friends and they could use this link to find your calendar and view it, and, since it is shared 'Public', they will not have to log into KeepandShare to view your calendar.
- Invite your friends by email and put them in a share group. Then share your calendar with this share group. Using share groups ensures your calendar is restricted to only the friends in your share group - no one else will have access to the calendar.
View only access: with either approach, so long as you do not check the 'edit' box on your share controls, visitors to your calendar will only be able to view your calendar.
Granting edit rights: if you check the edit box, then visitors to your calendar will be able to edit it the calendar. Note that if you share the calendar publicly and with edit rights, then anyone can edit the calendar even without having a KeepandShare account. This is probably not appropriate for most personal calendars but can be an easy way to allow sign ups for office hours and other schedules without requiring that people have a KeepandShare account just to view and edit your public calendar.
By using multiple calendars you can have one calendar that you make public and editable if you want to allow this - your other calendars will remain private and secure.
