The InfoPlex Calendar is fed by events from Northwestern's Plan-It Purple calendar. Individual student groups maintain their own Plan-It Purple group calendars, and these individual calendars are all combined for display on InfoPlex.

 

Viewing the Calendar

  1. Go to: http://www.infoplex.northwestern.edu/
  2. Click on "Calendar"

 

A short list of upcoming events are also displayed on the InfoPlex homepage.

 

Creating a Plan-It Purple Group

A Plan-It Purple group must be created for your student group before submitting events.

 

  1. Go to: http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/pp/
  2. Click on "Administer my group(s)"
  3. Click on "Create a new group"
  4. Fill out the Plan-It Purple group creation form
    1. "#1 Group name": Use the following naming convention: "Medical School - [your group name]," e.g., "Medical School - Lounge Lizards"
    2. "#3 Group type": Designate your group a NON-student group
    3. "#4 Group administrators": List NetIDs for all the people in your student group allowed to submit events
    4. "#6 Calendar creation": Check the box to allow other groups to include your events on their calendars
  5. E-mail infoplex@northwestern.edu with your group's name to be added to the InfoPlex Calendar.
    Please email us only *after* Plan-It-Purple sends you an email approval notice. Until you get this notification, your group has not been created yet by the Plan-It-Purple staff. Average turnaround time for them is two business days or so.

 

Submitting an Event

  1. Go to the InfoPlex Calendar
  2. Click on "submit event"
  3. Fill out the Plan-It Purple event submission form for the appropriate group
    1. "#11 Post your event": Select "Show this event to group subscribers only"

 

Adding/Removing People Who Can Post Events

  1. Go to: http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/cal/pp/
  2. Click on "Administer my group(s)"
  3. Click on "Edit group"
  4. Add/remove peoples' NetIDs in field "#4 Group Administrators"

 

Subscribing to the Calendar

If you have "iCalendar"-compatible calendar software on your personal computer, you can subscribe to the InfoPlex calendar and have it integrated with the rest of your personal calendar. Currently, Mozilla Calendar and Apple iCal support this feature. Stay tuned for support from Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Palm Desktop.

 

  1. Depending on your particular software, subscribe to: http://www.infoplex.northwestern.edu/feeds/InfoPlex.ics
  2. Set up the software to automatically refresh the calendar periodically