Using icons in events
In CalenGoo you can enable this feature by turning “Settings”, “Icons”, “Show Icons” on. Afterward you should tap the “Download Google Icons” button to download the standard icons of the “Event flair” plugin. If you want even more icons you can tap “Settings”, “Icons”, “Download icon list”, enter “http://www.calengoo.com/icons/icons.txt” and tap “Done” to download 100 additional free icons (a subset of the FamFamFam Silk Icons).
When “Show Icons” is enabled you should find a new “Icon” section at the end of the edit view. There you can choose the icon for the current event. This works only for directly synced Google calendars and for local calendars, but not for calendars that are synced with the iPhone’s calendar. The iPhone’s calendar does not support icons.
These icons are also displayed in Google Calendar even if the “Event flair” feature is not turned on:
Special month view
There is an option “Settings”, “Display and Use”, “Expert”, “Month view”, “Only events with icons” to display only events with icons in the month view. It can be used to display e.g. only the most important events in the month view and get a quick overview:
Adding own icons
You can add own icons in the same way as the “famfamfam” icons above. But because Google Calendar needs to download them when displaying your calendar, they must be saved on a web server. To add your own icons just follow these steps:- Upload your icons (16x16 px PNG files) to a web server.
If you don’t have a web server, you can create a free Dropbox account and copy your files into the public folder of your Dropbox. Then right-click these files and choose “Dropbox”, “Copy public link” to get the address of this file. This address can either be used directly with “Settings”, “Icons”, “Download single icon” in Calengoo or you can create a list of icons (see steps 2-4). But you must not remove these files afterward from your public folder, because they will be loaded by Google Calendar every time you use the Google Calendar website and an event with that icon is displayed (i.e. it won’t save the icon, the Google Calendar website will download it again every time it needs it). - Create a text file that contains the URLs of all your icons, one per line:
http://www.calengoo.com/icons/redcross.png
http://www.calengoo.com/icons/silk/attach.png - Upload this text file to your web server, too.
- Tap “Settings”, “Icons”, “Download icon list”, enter the URL of your text file and tap “Done”. CalenGoo will now download all icons referenced in the text file.