You can now subscribe to your troop Calendar from Google Calendar™, Yahoo Calendar™, tablets, and smartphones.  We've also given you more control over event types.

We have all the details below, but first let us thank the latest troops who have signed up with TroopWebHost:

• Troop 28 of Glencoe, Illinois
• Troop 72 of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
• Troop 155 of Georgetown, Texas
• Troop 170 of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
• Troop 222 of Arlington, Texas
• Troop 286 of Cottage Grove, Minnesota
• Troop 289 of Spring Hill, Kansas
• Troop 417 of Waldorf, Maryland
• Troop 454 of Valdosta, Georgia
• Troop 554 of Vancouver, Washington
• Troop 878 of Spring, Texas
• Troop 899 of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
• Troop 999 of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
• Troop 1040 of Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Troop 1188 of Rowlett, Texas
• Troop 1776 of Martin, Tennessee

If you have any questions or suggestions about TroopWebHost, please contact us at info@TroopWebHost.com.

When you do, please mention your troop number and city in your message so we'll know exactly who you are.

Subscribe to Calendar

Site administrators will see a new item on the My Stuff menu: Subscribe to Calendar.  This will display a URL that you can copy and paste into many popular calendar applications, such as Google Calendar™, Yahoo! Calendar™, and many tablet and smart phone applications.

These applications will synchronize with your troop calendar, so you can see all of your troop's events.

This URL is specific to your User ID.

Since some troops may not wish to risk making their calendar public, we have initially limited access to this function to site administrators.

You can authorize additional users to have access to the Subscribe to Calendar page using the Assign Tasks to Roles function from the Security Configuration menu.

As you would expect, more details are available in our User Guide.

Event Types

Last year we introduced the ability to configure your event types, giving you control over how each type of event is handled.

This month we've expanded that control in several ways.

Uncheck Display on Calendar if you do not want this type of event to appear on your troop calendar.  You may wish to create an event type like this for long running fundraisers.

Include in iCalendar Subscription will determine whether this type of event will be included in the calendar subscription service described above.

Require a Location controls whether you will be prompted for a location on this type of event.  You may wish to turn this off when creating an Event Type for holidays.

We initialized all of these options to Yes.

Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions about these or any other features.

Thank you for your support!

John Corning
TroopWebHost