Subscribe to your calendar

What the subscription is

A subscription is a private link your calendar app fetches on its own schedule, so the company's deadlines sit beside your own appointments and stay current.

It is different from Add to calendar on one deadline, which adds a single event once.

• The feed carries one all-day event per open deadline and per deadline met in the last 90 days, dated on its Eastern Time due day, with the row's subject as the title and the due line and a link to the row in the description.
• Blackout windows appear as multi-day events. Federal holidays are not included; your calendar app has its own.
• The feed shows what you see on the Company calendar for this company and nothing more. Waived and cancelled rows are left out.
• Calendar apps refresh a subscription every few hours; the feed asks for six. A deadline met this morning may take that long to update on your phone.

Add it to your calendar app

Subscribe on the Company calendar, or Calendar subscription under Settings › Notifications, creates your private link with Create link and hands it to your calendar app.

• Apple Calendar opens and asks you to subscribe, with the link filled in.
• Google Calendar opens its add-by-URL page with the link filled in; confirm it there. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, often less than once a day.
• Outlook and other apps take the link pasted in (Outlook's steps are below).

Outlook

Outlook does not open the link on its own, so you paste it once, the same way in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Mac: in the Calendar view choose Add calendar (on the Mac, File, New Calendar Subscription), then Subscribe from web, paste the https link, name the calendar and choose Import.

Let an assistant walk you through it

Copy setup instructions for your assistant in the subscribe sheet copies a ready prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Siri or a colleague: it names your calendar app, carries your private link and asks for a read-only calendar that refreshes on its own.

• The prompt contains your private link. Paste it only into a chat you control, the way you would treat the link itself.
• If the assistant's steps do not match your app's words, tell it the exact version you are using; the link and the goal stay the same.

Keep the link private, rotate it, or stop it

The link works without signing in, the way every calendar subscription does, so treat it as yours: add it on your own devices and do not forward it. Each person has one link per company.

• Rotate link stops the current link at once and creates a new one. Add the new link where you want the feed; subscriptions to the old one stop updating.
• Stop sharing stops the link at once. Nothing on TakePublic changes, and you can create a new link later.
• Creating, rotating and stopping a link are recorded in the company's audit trail. The link itself is never stored in the clear and never appears in the trail.
• A link stops answering on its own when you leave the company or an administrator freezes the account.