Calendar feed (iCal)

If your calendar app is the source of truth for time-sensitive obligations, Clment exposes an iCal feed of your organisation’s contract key dates. Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and any other client that supports calendar subscriptions all work.

Setting it up

1. Settings → Notifications → Calendar subscription.
2. Click Generate feed URL if you haven’t yet.
3. Copy the URL. It contains a personal token; treat it like a password — anyone with this URL can see your organisation’s key dates.
4. Add the URL as a subscribed calendar in your client (see app-specific instructions below).

What’s in the feed

• Every key date (auto-extracted or custom) on every contract in your organisation.
• Reminder offsets as separate events — so a 30-day-before reminder appears in your calendar as “Reminder: 30 days before VendorCo MSA renewal” and the renewal itself appears on the actual date.
• Event details include the contract title, the CLM-N, the key-date label, and a deep-link back to the contract page in Clment.

The feed currently covers your whole organisation’s key dates — per-user scoping isn’t available yet, so the token grants org-wide visibility. Treat the URL accordingly, and revoke it if it leaks (below).

Adding to your calendar app

Microsoft Outlook (desktop / web)

1. Outlook → Add calendar → From internet (or “Subscribe from web” depending on Outlook version).
2. Paste the feed URL.
3. Give the calendar a name (e.g. “Clment key dates”).
4. Save.

Outlook refreshes subscribed calendars every ~3 hours by default. To force an immediate refresh, right-click the calendar → Refresh (desktop) or the round-arrow icon (web).

Google Calendar

1. Google Calendar → left sidebar → + next to “Other calendars” → From URL.
2. Paste the feed URL.
3. Click Add calendar.

Google refreshes external feeds every ~8 hours by default — there’s no way to force it sooner from the user side, unfortunately. Events appear within hours of you setting them up in Clment.

Apple Calendar (macOS / iOS)

1. Calendar → File → New Calendar Subscription (macOS) or Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar (iOS).
2. Paste the feed URL.
3. Choose update frequency (Hourly is the most aggressive option Apple offers).

Refresh behaviour

Calendar apps decide when to re-fetch the feed; Clment doesn’t push to them. Typical cadences:

• Outlook: every 3 hours.
• Google: every 8–12 hours.
• Apple: configurable; defaults to every hour on macOS, every day on iOS.

If you set up a new key date in Clment and want it visible in your calendar immediately, the workaround is to force-refresh the calendar app’s feed. Some apps don’t support manual refresh — accept the delay.

Revoking access

Compromised feed URL (shared in a screenshot, posted to a wiki, etc.)? Revoke it:

Settings → Notifications → Calendar subscription → Revoke feed URL.

Effects:

• The old URL stops working immediately.
• Your calendar apps will throw an error or just stop refreshing the next time they try.
• You can then click Generate feed URL for a new one.

Old subscriptions in calendar apps need to be removed and re-added with the new URL.

What the feed can’t do

• Push updates — calendar apps poll, they don’t subscribe in real-time. New key dates take however long your calendar’s refresh cadence is to appear.
• Two-way sync — events in your calendar don’t push back to Clment. Edit key dates in Clment, not in your calendar.
• Span multiple orgs in one feed — each URL is tied to ONE org. To see key dates across two orgs, add two subscriptions (one per org).

Performance / size

The feed includes all upcoming key dates plus anything from the last 12 months. Older past events are excluded to keep the feed file small (calendar apps re-fetch the entire feed on every refresh).

If you have a particularly large portfolio and the feed is slow to refresh, contact support — we can adjust the window for your org.

See also

• Key dates and reminders
• Mentions and assignments