Reference Manual

How RapidCal Works

RapidCal is a four-tiered architecture involving several parts: yourself and your Mac, your hosting service, the RapidCal server, and finally the visitor of your web site.

Publishing the calendar from your Mac takes two different actions: publishing the page itself, which is done by RapidWeaver along with the other pages in your web site; and publishing the calendar data, which is done separately by iCal, to the RapidCal server, protected with your account’s password.

The iCal calendar can be updated anytime, it is independent from the RapidWeaver page that contains it. The page is created on the fly by the RapidCal server, from your calendar data. It is that same mechanism that allows the visitor to browse the calendar and see any month and year: it merely calls the RapidCal server again with a different date.

To stop publishing the calendar, the easiest way is to delete the page from your site in RapidWeaver, then republish the site. If you stop the publication in iCal, to avoid displaying an empty page to your visitors, delete it in RapidWeaver.