Using The Calendar & Contact Sharing Feature in cPanel

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Updated: April 23, 2025
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This interface lets you assign access permissions for a user's calendar(s) or address book(s) to other users. It's helpful when managing someone else's calendar or shared resources like conference rooms, or when maintaining a shared contact list.

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Share a calendar or address book

Note: You can only share a calendar or address book with other email users of the same cPanel account. Your cPanel account must have at least two email accounts. If your cPanel account has only one email account, the interface will display a No Additional Email Account Exists message. To create a new email account, click Create Email Account. The Create an Email Account interface will appear. In a shared calendar, you can only invite others to an event if you created it, and you can only accept a calendar invitation if the person who created it invited you directly.

Calendar and Contact Sharing

To share a calendar or address book, follow these steps in the Share Collection section:

• From the Select User menu, choose the email user who owns the calendar or address book.
• In the Select Collection menu, pick the specific calendar or address book you want to share.
• Use the Share with menu to select the email user you want to grant access to.
• Check the Allow Editing box if you want the user to have edit permissions. Leave it unchecked to grant read-only access.
• Click Create. The page will refresh, and the shared collection will appear in the Shared Collections table.

The Shared Collections table

The Shared Collections table lists the following information about calendar and address book collections for the account:

Column Description
Owner The owner of the calendar or address book.
Name The name of the calendar or address book.
Path The relative path on the server to the calendar or address book.
Shared with The email user to whom the owner grants calendar or address book rights.
Permissions Whether the email user has read-write or read-only access to the calendar or address book.
Actions Actions that you can perform on the collection:
  • Delete — Remove the email user’s rights to the calendar or address book.
  • Allow Editing — Grant write access to the email user. This button only appears when the user does not have write access.
  • Disallow Editing — Remove write access from the email user, but maintain read access. This button only appears when the user has write access.

Add Editing Rights

To grant edit access to a shared calendar or address book:

• Locate the relevant collection in the Shared Collections table.
• Click Allow Editing to enable editing rights for the selected user.

Remove Editing Rights

To revoke edit access from a shared calendar or address book:

• Find the collection entry in the Shared Collections table.
• Click Disallow Editing to remove editing rights. The user will retain read-only access.

Remove a Shared Collection

To completely remove a user’s access to a shared calendar or address book:

• Locate the entry in the Shared Collections table and click Delete.
• Click Confirm Delete to proceed, or Cancel to abort the action.

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