Downloading Calendars (Elmvale Minor Hockey)

How to Link a Team Schedule to Your Outlook Calendar

1. Open the Team Calendar page on your team website
2. Click the Subscribe button in the top right corner of the calendar
3. Follow the instructions

Disclaimer (from MBSportsWeb, the website vendor)
It’s a “live feed” but not entirely live depending on what email program or calendar you link to. The most reliable one is Outlook that updates about every 3 hours. Doing a manual Send/Receive in Outlook will sometimes grab the immediate changes but not always. Google Calendar usually only updates their feeds every 24 hours (or more).

You should always check the website for the latest schedule prior to departing for a game or practice. There are literally thousands of software applications, website services, and devices which could potentially be used to import the calendar feed. It is impossible for us to test each of these scenarios, and it is also impossible for us to guarantee that your scenario will work as expected.  We will only test that our feed works in the most common environments.
 
The Details for DOWNLOADING and syncing a SCHEDULE:

Would you like to be able to import your team(s) schedules into your other calendars, and automatically sync when those schedules change?  Now you can!  This website provides a Live Calendar "Feed" which allows programs like Microsoft Outlook®, services like Google Calendar™, or devices like the Apple iPhone™ to import and combine with your other calendars.  Because it's a "feed" and not a "file" (which you can also export from this site), information changed on the site will automatically update in your other calendar(s).

Instructions

We will provide some basic instructions for using the calendar feed from this website for some of the most common scenarios, including Microsoft Outlook® 2007 & 2010, Apple iPhone™, and Google Calendar™.  For more detailed instructions than those provided here (or for instructions about a different scenario), consult the documentation for your program / device, or search the web for "Import Calendar Feed Into [Insert Your Program / Device Here]".

In general, this is a two-step process:

1. Get the address to the calendar feed.
2. Follow instructions specific to your program or device for using the feed.

Step 1: Get The Address to the Calendar Feed

This website has a single address which is used to generate the calendar feed, and that address needs to have some incoming parameters which tells the feed what team(s) schedules to return. The basic format for this address is webcal://(your domain name)/webcal.ashx?IDs=(one or more team IDs).

Each team in the site has an ID which you can see in the address (URL) when you navigate to that team's site. So if you know the ID(s) of the team(s) you want to create the calendar feed for, you can manually type them into the feed's address. However, to make it easier to configure the feed's address, Click here to open a special page for doing so (opens in a new window).

Step 2: Import the Feed into your Calendar

Once you have your customized address to the calendar feed, you can import it into your calendar. Basic instructions for some of the more popular calendars are as follows:

Microsoft Outlook® 2010

1. Open Outlook® and go to the Calendar area.
2. In the ribbon at the top, click Open Calendar, then From Internet...
3. Paste the address created in Step 1 into location field, and click Ok
4. Optional: Click Advanced Options to provide a name and/or description for the calendar, and click Ok
5. Click Ok to add the Calendar. It will automatically update each time Outlook® performs a full "Send & Receive"

Microsoft Outlook® 2007

1. Open Outlook® and go to the Calendar area.
2. In the main menu, click Tools, then Account Settings
3. Select the Internet Calendars tab, and click New...
4. Paste the address created in Step 1 into location field, and click Add
5. Optional: Click Subscription Options to provide a name and/or description for the calendar, and click Ok
6. Click Ok to add the Calendar. It will automatically update each time Outlook® performs a full "Send & Receive"

Apple iPhone™ (version 3.0 or later)

If you can receive email on your iPhone...

1. Send yourself an email containing the address created in Step 1.
2. Open the email on your iPhone and tap the address.
3. Your iPhone will ask if you want to subscribe to the calendar. Tap Subscribe
4. After the feed has been loaded into your iPhone, you'll see a confirmation message. Tap View Events to see the calendar.

If you cannot receive email on your iPhone...

1. On your iPhone, open your Settings, then tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Tap Add Account..., then tap Other
3. Tap Add Subscribed Calendar
4. Enter the address from Step 1 into the Server Address field, and tap Next
5. On the next screen, change the name of the calendar as needed, then tap Save

Apple iCal™

1. Open iCal, and in the main menu select Calendar, then Subscribe...
2. Past the address created in Step 1 into the Calendar URL: box provided, and click Subscribe
3. Type a name and/or description for the calendar into the boxes provided, set the Auto-refresh as desired, and click OK

Google Calendar™

1. Login to Google and visit your Google Calendar™ (usually http://calendar.google.com)
2. On the left-hand side, look for an area called "Other Calendars"
3. Click Add, then click Add by URL
4. Paste the address created in Step 1 into the URL: box provided, and click Add Calendar
5. Optional: After the calendar is added, you can rename it by clicking the Calendar Settings associated with that calendar.