Add and manage Calendar accounts

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Enable the Calendar

To use Vivaldi Calendar, make sure you’ve enabled Mail, Calendar and Feeds from Settings > General > Productivity Features. On a brand new installation or in a new User Profile, choose the “Browser, Mail, and Calendar” option in the welcome flow.

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Local account

Vivaldi Calendar comes with a local account already set up. Calendars and events under the local account are stored on the computer and can only be viewed and managed in the browser instance they were created in.

This option is good from a privacy viewpoint as events won’t be stored on third-party servers, but inconvenient, if you’d like to access and manage your events from multiple locations and share with others.

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Online accounts

You can also use Vivaldi Calendar with online accounts, in which case calendars and events are stored on the calendar service provider’s servers and can be accessed from multiple clients.

Add an online account

To add a new online calendar account:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar accounts;
2. Click on  Add account below the list of accounts;
3. Select the account type:
   • Vivaldi.net,
   • Fastmail,
   • Google Calendar,
   • Apple iCloud,
   • CalDAV,
   • Web calendar.
4. Click Continue.
5. Fill in the rest of the information (read below for further instructions for each account type);
6. Click Create account.

Vivaldi.net

Vivaldi webmail comes with an online calendar feature. You can add the CalDAV calendar easily to the browser because the browser detects the calendar link automatically on login.

After you’ve selected Vivaldi.net as the account type:

1. Give the Calendar account a name.
2. Type in your Vivaldi account’s email address (all lowercase letters) and password.
3. Click Add Account.
4. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which ones to hide, and which one is the account’s default calendar.
5. Click Done or Add Another Account if you have more accounts to add.

Google Calendar

After you’ve selected Google Calendar as the account type:

1. Give the Calendar account a name.
2. Type in your Gmail address.
3. Click Add Account.
4. Follow the login instructions in Google’s pop-up login window that opens. Log in and give Vivaldi viewing and editing access to your calendars.
5. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which ones to hide, and which one is the account’s default calendar.
6. Click Done or Add Another Account if you have more accounts to add.

Note! By default, Google Calendar will add a notification to all new events which have no notifications. If you experience unexpected reminders on events created in the Vivaldi Calendar, please check the settings on the Google Calendar site. It is not enough to turn off the global notification setting, so check each calendar’s settings separately.

iCloud calendar

Before adding your iCloud account to Vivaldi Calendar, create an app-specific password to use in Vivaldi Calendar (instructions).

After you’ve selected Apple iCloud as the account type when adding a new account:

1. Give the Calendar account a name.
2. Type in your Apple ID.
3. Enter the app-specific password you created for Vivaldi.
4. Click Add Account.
5. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which ones to hide, and which one is the account’s default calendar.
6. Click Done or Add Another Account if you have more accounts to add.

CalDAV

After you’ve selected CalDAV as the account type:

1. Give the Calendar account a name.
2. Enter the account’s address, which you should find somewhere in the calendar account’s settings in the service’s web view.
3. Type in the username and password.
4. Click Add Account.
5. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which ones to hide, and which one is the account’s default calendar.
6. Click Done or Add Another Account if you have more accounts to add.

Web Calendar

Web calendars, for example, local public holidays or your favorite sports team’s match calendar, are a good way to follow events that you don’t want to add manually yourself, but would still like to know about. Web calendar events are read-only, meaning you can view them, but only the calendar owner can edit the events.

After you’ve selected Web Calendar as the account type:

1. Give the Calendar account a name.
2. Enter the calendar’s link (make sure the URL ends with .ics).
3. Click Add Account.
4. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which one’s to hide and which one is the account’s default calendar.
5. If the web calendar has limited access, enter your username and password. In case it’s a public calendar leave the username and password fields empty.
6. Click Done or Add Another Account if you have more accounts to add.

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Calendar Mail Account

To share events, the Calendar needs to be linked to a mail account. Select the mail account in Settings > Calendar > Calendar Settings > Calendar Mail Account.

To add a new Mail account, check out the help page about adding and managing Mail accounts.

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Edit accounts

To change something about the account:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar accounts.
2. Select an account you want to update.
3. Make the changes.
4. Click Save.

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Delete accounts

To delete an account and its calendars:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar accounts.
2. Select an account you want to delete.
3. Click on  Delete Account below the list of accounts
4. Click Yes on the confirmation dialog.