Hi chris.swinney1,

Thanks for the valuable feedback. As you've probably guessed, this is very much out of scope for our implementation of CalDAV. However, we'll certainly bear it in mind for future improvements.

Best

Jenny

This is good new, however, I think more work needs to be made of the Calendaring application to make it truly functional. I have posted this elsewhere but a lot of posts go seemingly unread, so even though this is specifically about CalDav support (and yay for that), I though posting her might get some more traction.

For example, to be able to assign and track team members holidays, you need to know:

• How many days have been assign to individuals?,
• How many days have been taken?,
• Do weekends count?
• How many day have you as an individual got leave in a holiday year?,
• When does this holiday year start/stop?,
• Can you carry over holiday from one year to another, and if so how mach?
• Some workflow required (potentially) to authorise holiday requests).

Most of this is pretty simple stuff, but of course GUI enhancements are required. We looked at Confluence originally for Calendaring, and whilst this is generally good, and CalDav will make this better, there are additional items that must be included to make this really work for teams. 

Thanks!

Awesome, we are waiting!

Thanks all! Looking forward to the pizza and beer

In response to msmithxyz1's question, I'm always hesitant to commit to dates in writing. However, I'll definitely ensure you get an update on our progress within the next 3 months.

+1 on Sean's comment. And pizza too.

Basically we are all saying that you and your team could get a lifetime supply of beer out of this!!

Great to hear, Jenny!  If you can crack this nut, it'll help boost the efforts for those of us who have been in the trenches  - in orgs using Outlook - working to gain internal adoption of Team Calendars. Good luck to you and the team.

Fantastic!  Looking forward to being added to the beta test list.  Is there any sort of planned ETA?

You'll be pleased to hear that we've started work on implementing CalDAV!

As mentioned previously, this is a significant feature for us to build, with a high level of complexity. Please bear with us as we develop this.

Happy to beta test this and assist in any way I can

Heck, I'll help you develop the dang thing....open source those issues!

I am SURE that many people would be happy to help Beta this for ya'll!

hint hint

That's great news, Jenny! Thanks for this welcome update. It gives some of us hope that not all highly voted tickets such as this one just die.

LOL, 6+ years in the making.  Better late than never I guess, right?

Hi all,

I'm pleased to let you know that we've completed our technical investigation and have decided to add CalDAV to our roadmap!

We plan to begin development on this in the first half of 2018. However, as I'm sure you can appreciate, implementing CalDAV for Team Calendars will be a sizable undertaking. There will be a number of edge cases to work around and we want to ensure that we deliver a rock solid experience. Thank you for your patience as we work on this.

I'll update you again once we begin development.

Best,

Jenny Millman | Product Manager, Confluence Server

I am not sure Atlassian itself is responsible for this plugin. I sure hope not.

I have meanwhile discontinued our usage as I now consider this a scam.

Someone else should see this functionality gap and step in with an own calendar implementation. Since I moved our calendar to a cloud based backend I suppose this is more reasonable anyway that having you wiki host your calendar. Which would require really only a calendar that is in-wiki and a view to a remote caldav resource.

Just my 2 cents...

This has one of the highest votes for a Confluence server issue however the latest Atlassian status update is from November 2013!

I think Atlassian should give more attention to issues with high votes so that we know what can be expected.

This is one of the biggest barriers to getting my colleagues to use Confluence and JIRA when scheduling in our enterprise is done through Outlook.

Please see https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Team-Calendars-for-Confluence/Is-there-a-way-to-create-two-way-synchronisation-between-Outlook/qaq-p/605356#M675

This is of vital importance to us. We operate teams spanning both O365 and Google worlds, and the inbuilt shared calendar do not synchronise without other stuff breaking. Hence the need for a third separate central calendar that enables both Outlook and Google Calendar users to link toward AND be able to update from their own scheduling application. 

Is there any update Atlassian?

Seriously, this is like Word dont having the ability to write texts.

Yes please, can you give any update ?

@Atlassian any news about adding events to a team calendar via Thunderbird or other clients?

@atlassian? any news?

@raffi what is your use case? I just need to be able to edit the calendar from both confluence and Google Calendar. For me for workaround would fulfill the needs

@elijas I would say this is not that easy. CalDAV is a protocol, and its spec must be followed to make it compatible with existing clients.

I think about building a workaround/addon for 2way sync feature.

A possible solution is merging ics subscriptions of the calendars. Another one is having two calendars om both ends (one for write, another for read). Then updating the read calendars from the write ones.

Do you think this proposal has potential or not?

This is an elementary feature! If there won't be an update after trial time, I won't buy a licence!

Any Update?

Hi CalDAV support

I have new requirement regarding to the number of invitation votes. Can we enhance with the features of voting counts. Example, I have training room 1 which limited to 5 seats. I invited a team more than 15 members. The first five will be able to accept automatically showed the calendar schedule on their personal outlook or team calendars those did not participate or late will be automatically declined or closed notifications.

Is that possible? thank you in advance.

Is Team Calendar Plugin still under development?

Unfortunately I must join the rest of the community and share my critic on how this issue (basic feature from my point of view) is being handle. Please update with this feature! 

I am in the process of testing this product for my department Share Site to replace an outdated version. but with out being able to show our team exchange calendar with in the Confluence server there is no point to using that plugin and paying for it. 

@Atlassian: Still no official update after more than three years and 580 votes? It seems you're not so committed to one of your core values as you claim.

At least I'd like to see more timely updates of the changes in the Atlassian calendar in my Google Calendar. Did anyone managed to do increase the frequency of subscription to Confluence Calendars?

(I tried several solutions/scripts, to no avail.

https://github.com/bigpresh/ical-to-google-calendar

https://github.com/yvangodard/icalsync )

The plugin Calendar is not usefull if we can edit/write on it from our app !

Please add caldav !

A plug-in you charge handsomely for, 4 years of requests to add caldav r/w support, and still nothing. This is why I am always needing to defend Atlassian in my organization.

566 votes, 61 duplicates and still no official statement for years?

Yes, this is insane. 3 Years without any work or information on this.

Why have calendars at all, when you cant sync them? Two-way sync is necessary and should be a standard feature. Is it that complicated to implement CalDav? 

I can't believe this request was created over 5 years ago and we still do not have this functionality.  

You created a survey 3 years ago and I wouldn't be surprised if you've had an overwhelming amount of people who have filled out this survey requesting this feature.  Please focus on this request as the demand is high and would benefit everyone who utilizes the Team Calendar.

We're finding that calendars are very limited without this feature as well. One way sync still leads to a lot of duplication (having to enter calendar data into multiple places). Two way sync would drastically increase the productivity this plugin provides.

The importance of CalDAV support in Confluence should be self-evident. Not being able to two-way sync calendars is a major obstacle and UX flaw.
When can we expect CalDAV support?

Yes please.

This could leverage the external database used to synchronize these calendars. Essentially, the calendar in outlook and confluence would do their read/writes via that database. Every Confluence system already leverages an external database (for production) I would recommend utilizing that as an avenue to sync calendars, then not only can you sync with outlook, but then it is just a matter of utilizing an API to sync with any calendar.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.

NOT having two-way integration with Exchange/Outlook has been a drag on my team's uptake and use of Team Calendars. There was a lot of excitement about it when we first installed it, but so much of our scheduling is already done in Outlook that to have to duplicate any of it in Confluence is effectively a non-starter for people.

+1

As we are using Atlassian Team Calendar for noting the availability of team members we are effectively forced to make double entries in Outlook/Exchange. Apart from being able to display MS Exchange calendars we would also like to be able to filter and classify on the status of the event.

Specifically we need to display only events with the status "Out of Office" as Travel in Team Calendar.

This would be a very handy feature for our company as well.

Like Phillip I stumbled upon this ticket while looking for such functionality for Confluence (and 2-way). Would love to see it. If that same Calendar could then be used by both Confluence and JIRA, it would be jawsome (jaw-droppingly-awesome)!

+1 for sure!

-MJ

Just in case it's helpful, there are workarounds to enable a simple one-way sync (Outlook to TeamCal or TeamCal to Outlook). Check out https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/53142/answers/39246943 if this is something you can use while waiting for the CalDAV feature.

Won't be renewing without this feature. SharePoint does this integration very well, but IT moved away from it. For now we are making do with a shared Outlook calendar.

Team,
Major collaboration happens on Outlook calendars.What is use of having a calendar that just is standalone. Also have a lot of issues on how it fits on the page with a bare minimum options on the gadget.
we really need this feature if you guys are looking into this !

Thank you

Stumbled over this ticket while researching the capabilities of Team Calendars for Confluence. I can't believe this isn't implemented yet.

Just stumbled upon this ticket. We had an internal request for supporting CalDAV and we are a 15,000 user license base Confluence user. Any progress on this?

I cannot believe this hasn't been implemented for 5 years. This is the absolute baseline necessary for a calendar addon to be productive. If this were a legacy feature of Confluence, I would grumble and keep editing calendar items in Google Calendar as a workaround. As a paid addon, I find the cost extremely difficult to justify.

as all here - would be a massive advantage for confluence. Currently had to move to ms hosted exchange server for a planning solution. Its essential for good collaboration solution. Thanks for pushing this feature.

Update 25.05.2016: Today I finally finished a solution for my customer. Sorrily I had to switch to an hosted MS Exchange system and no Confluence/Teamcalendar as originally planed. A few nice side effects of exchange made my setup awesome for production planning - but with outlook. ;-(

+1 and all of my team would love to this some movement on this feature

Can the CalDAV team provide us on an update please> Seems like there is enough interest to get a solution.

It would be nice if this feature hasn't withered and died on the vine

I just came here looking up documentation while trying to fix missing write access to our new Calender. I assumed it was some bug on my side and it should be working. And now I realize it is a 5 year old missing feature? That is astonishing.
May I ask, why is this missing feature not present yet? I have to admit, if I would have known this doesn't work, I would have never bought the plugin in the fast place... Wait... I just answered my question

We expected this function to work with Confluence and Exchange - the ability to embed an exchange calendar into confluence is key to the integration.. Likewise the oposite is also true..

For us, basic requirements are (in order of priority):

• Use an Enterprise calendaring solution to manage (create / update / delete) calendar event of the teams, obvious example Outlook!
• Expose the teams calendars into Confluence in read-only mode
• Allow Confluence users to request a synchronization
• Enable Confluence admins to manage the automatic synchronization polling intervals
• Enable Confluence admins to manage who can have access to the teams calendars using either confluence internal directories or LDAP ones

Of course there could more requirement but this would be a nice start for us.

@Clement: I am interested this "hack". Please would you share your experience?
We'd like to integrate OC in TeamCalendar as well. One way sync would be fine. Thanks!

@kevin, our company has started to use OwnCloud for CalDav and TeamCalendar to subscribe to it via ica, and we "hacked" TeamCalendar to pull data every minute.

Oddly enough Fastmail... we were looking at them for mail hosting and it turns out their calendar solution has full CalDAV and groups/sharing built-in. We haven't even migrated our mail yet, but our calendars are all loaded up and syncing with all of our other accounts. I only opened the account about 14h ago... So far no complaints and our team is much more enthusiastic about it.

What's the alternative solution out of curiousity?

I gotta say I'm absolutely shocked that the Calendars feature doesn't have CalDav support! We have been evaluating this add-on for about a month on the side of our desks and it has not gone anywhere because of this one issue. We recenly stumbled upon a better solution so we will be cancelling the Calendars subscription shortly.

frannie, thanks for the feedback.

This is one of our challenges with having an open feature request tracker with all our customers being able to see and collaborate on suggestions. We've got tens of thousands of customers with millions of users. In Confluence alone, we've got over 6,000 feature requests (and growing daily!). We'd love to implement as much as we can for everyone but in reality that isn't going to happen. We will always have lots feature suggestions open, the alternative is we hide all feature requests from other customers which isn't something we want to do. Where possible we will close feature requests which we have no intention on doing.

Can I say that we do always look at implementing highly requested issues. If you go look at historical release notes we're always referencing all the customer issues we're resolving and time and time again we're solving "older" highly-requested issues balancing that with the many other inputs into our roadmap.

There are, situations like this, where issues are open for longer periods of time and there might be a few reasons for this:
1. We leave the issue open as it's something we see as valuable and would like to do in the future.
2. They're open for a lengthy period of time because generally they are quite costly to implement or have some significant technical challenges. CalDav in particular comes with some significant support, third-party licensing and maintenance implications. We're still leaving this open because we'd ideally find a solution to get over this hurdle.

This is something we'd love to look into doing, we spend some time in our roadmap in the past looking at possible solutions and didn't find anything feasible at the time. I'd suspect that towards later this year we'd conduct another investigation again and see how things may have progressed. We will keep this feature suggestion open for as long as we think we could still do it, I'm sorry and I understand this may create some frustration - but we are trying to be as open as possible.

kevin.morris regarding the old calendar plugin and charging for the new one, I've tried to articulate our thinking here. I hope this helps shed some light if you hadn't seen that before, apologies if you have.

They're gearing up for an IPO is why they're making everything modular and charging for any feature improvements. It won't get any better after they go public. But their wiki system and user-interface is still the best on the market for ease of use and speed now so it's like you're damned if you do or your damned if you don't. If you're running a small tech-savvy team there are more feature rich FOSS solutions out there (FOSWIKI, Xwiki, etc.), but it's really not worth the pain if you're fellow employees don't know Wiki-Markup language or much about tech. (or if you don't know how to host).
But yes, what you're saying is true. Calendars used to be included with Confluence in 2011 and they split it out so they could monetize.

I've been finding that every single time I look for functionality in Confluence or Jira (things that are built into most other products), there's a two year old thread with Atlassian saying they are working on it, or they are not going to implement.

How can you ignore items like this when they are offered readily in all of your competitor products?

We are looking for a calendar solution to keep inside of our Confluence instance but that we can access from a mobile device. Since you don't offer a Confluence app, we would want to use our google calendar and link to Confluence, but you're missing the dynamic sync for items that we add from Confluence. We also would like the //shortcut for dates to auto add to a calendar from inside a Confluence page.

What's the point of team calendars - an add on no less - that is 5+ years behind the times?

We like to have a simple function to add events from the native calendar on the mobile phone.

It's a little annoying that you have to login to confluence everytime to add a calendar date.

Hi. We really would like to use Team Calendars in our company, but it makes no sense for us without read and write functionally in external clients. Is this feature planned in near future?

Yea - priorities, priorities... Other functionality must have trumped it. It would be nice to know, thought, whether this has been prioritized...

I suspect demand had been lower than some of us think, because pulling CalDAV data into Exchange/Outlook isn't always a delightful experience.

But I believe the built-in calendar app in Windows 10 has native CalDAV support? It certainly has native iCloud support, and that does calendaring via CalDAV.

Wow, what is the deal here. I'm noticing across many Atlassian products there are important features that stay outstanding for many many years.

Why is this one not done yet? Last update from Atlassian was almost two years ago. Does it really take that long to investigate CalDAV?

This is basically the only reason we haven't bought this plugin. Completely useless without this for us...

What's the point of having a second calendar to maintain? It should be connected with our Office 365 offering....

Shocked that this isn't a feature. This has been asked for for four years and @Atlassian still hasn't gotten to it. If you plan to charge us more for a feature, you should support it with one of the most requested features.

need google read/write and vice versa +1

+1 for CalDAV support.

Need read/write in iCal.

We already use the team calendar on the iPhone and Mac Calendar to see whats up. But we also need to make new dates on the iPhone and Mac, but this is not possible. (like Google Calendar) To use the Team Calendar only on the Confluence Website is not what people today need. We do not only make dates at the website. We make dates if we are traveling and mobile.

+1 CalDAV support

I would like users to subscribe to the Team Calendars via Outlook and be able to read/write.

Without this, our demo is DOA. We'll end up having to go with SharePoint. Please save us from that fate.

Aside the fact that Atlassian is now '...doing some investigation...' since November, 19th 2013 - which after two years only can mean they abandoned it, nor? the survey may need a small update. Instead of having option field for the given questions, checkboxes would be more senseful. At least if there is interest in useful results.

I think I said it once or twice, but still this is one of the features that really need the improvements, especially in directions to Exchange environments... and just setting an issue to resolved, as with TEAMCAL-655 isn't a solution. There are users, like me, looking into it and feeling a bit 'uncomfortable' so to say when they find out that resolved should be: WILL NOT FIX as a right answer.

I would also love to see this happen.

This is a feature I would love to see, too. I would like to have the option to write and update the generated calendar entries out of JIRA on the central caldav server.

There should be the option to configure one or more calendards to be synced by the user itself.

I would also love a read/write integration into CALDAV clients. I personally use the Mac OS X Calendar app.

Our Group requires write support before we can use confluence calendars, any news?

Our group would like to use Team Calendar from Google Calendar, read and write (two-way sync). Is there an update on this?

@Atlassian, please provide updated status of this issue

I subscribed to Team Calendar from MS Outlook following the steps provided from Atlassian support https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Subscribe+to+Team+Calendars+from+Microsoft+Outlook

The problem for us is that the Team Calendar, imported from Confluence into MS Outlook, is Read-Only. (Note: we use hosted MS Exchange). Also, when I make a change into Confluence Team Calendar, the MS Outlook calendar does not automatically update. At the very least, we need to be able to edit/schedule items in the MS Outlook calendar and have that automatically update the Confluence Team Calendar so that information is only having to be entered once. (Even if that means that we have to click a button to cause the synch for each instance just as long as we are not having to go through the import process with each change as long as it's not more than one step). As others have mentioned, the ideal feature is a two-way synchronization.

Can you give us an update on that issue pls?

Out of all the Atlassian products Team Calendars always appears to have the least momentum on critical features which one comes to expect from free calendar services and products let alone paid like Team Calendars...

Three years on and no movement? Just glue http://trac.calendarserver.org into Confluence.

This would close the loop between Outlook / Exchange and Confluence very nicely! We need this sort of interoperability.

This makes the current version of team calendars quite unusable. Please put some effort into this!

Atlassian development seems a bit ADD to me. It seems they get all excited about a new feature and they work on it till it is usable and then they get excited about something new and the old stuff just gets permanently put on the back burner. I think that they have too many irons in the fire as evidenced by the huge number of votes on this ticket and the fact that it was created three years ago.

I gave up and use owncloud instead, and subscribe it Team Calendar.

NP - and still it is a feature that would be extremely helpful..

The statement is already almost a year old. Any updates on this from Atlassian?

Our needs are pretty simple:

• Our on-site support need to update their calendars on the road quickly.
• Our Confluence is behind a firewall, only accessible through VPN.
• If Team Calendars access and use on mobile is as simple and as fast as mobile calendar client access and use, calendar sync would be unnecessary
• However, if more than 1 additional step is required (that 1 step is connecting to VPN and entering password), on-site support will not use Team Calendars and the team availability calendar will not be up-to-date / reliable

Not having used Team Calendars on mobile, I can't say whether usability is fast and easy enough that two-way calendar sync is not needed. Has anyone else used Team Calendars via mobile?

Maybe have multiple modules in the plugin? One for CalDav and another that uses EWS to connect to Exchange to provide round trips, and other modules to integrate with other non CalDav systems that have open APIs for round-tripping.