Reunion lets you move calendar events into Apple's Calendar app, making it easy to create attractive graphic calendars of birth dates, marriage anniversaries, and other events that you've entered in Reunion. These events will appear in the Calendar app in their own separate calendars and in distinct colors — to distinguish them from your everyday appointments.
Note: If you need help using Apple's Calendar app, please visit Apple's Calendar Support Page.
To export events to the Calendar app, follow these steps...
Step 1
In Reunion, open a family file.
Step 2
Be sure that File > Export > ICS.
is selected in the navbar and chooseOr, if you happen to click the button under Reunion's Calendar sidebar, you'll see an button. This button will also get you to Step 3, below, with the advantage of opening the Export ICS window already configured, based on Reunion's Calendar sidebar settings.
Step 3
Configure the Export ICS window, shown and described below.
Choose
as your destination. (If you want to make sure you're exporting the correct items, choose )Step 4
Click
(in the Export ICS window). The Calendar app will launch and a window called Add Event will appear...Note: | It's important to bring events from Reunion into a New Calendar in the Calendar app. In other words, you do NOT want to import a slew of birthdays from Reunion into your main calendar (the calendar that contains your day-to-day appointments). By importing events from Reunion into a New Calendar in the Calendar app's "Add event" window, shown above, you can easily colorize events from Reunion and, if necessary, hide or delete them all and not risk messing with your personal Calendar events. |
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Step 5
When you have chosen
in the Calendar app's Add events window, click .You should see your new calendar in the Calendar app's list of calendars and the events you imported will appear.
Note: To delete a calendar from the Calendar app...
Knowing how to delete a calendar will make it easier to experiment with bringing calendars from Reunion into the Calendar app.