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for my site i want to include P800 calender entries i.e. football fixtures is this possible |
thumbandit
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Incase it doesnt make sense i want to include schedules for the P800 Calender on my site .... i.e. Premiership Football Fixtures, WWE PPVs is this possible and how could i do it |
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epscilon
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I don't really understand but do you mean you are designing a website and want to modify the p800 calendar from the web page?
if so it is not possible!
Or is that totally wrong? |
thumbandit
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What i mean is ..... I want to include a file that includes dates for the P800 Calender so if u wanted to add a certain set of sporting fixtures etc you could add them all to your p800 calender using the file .. which would be downloadable from my site |
julianmclean
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@ thumbandit
Hmmm, I like the idea of that. I guess one way to do it would be to download a .sis file which could be installed and then a button pressed which inserts the appropriate calendar entries for you. A bit messy, but should work. Otherwise, maybe it is possible to download a file which you can import into Outlook - (CSV or something) and then re-sync with your phone.
There must be a more elegant way though surely? |
epscilon
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Yeah that would be a great idea. Downloading all the footy fixtures dates and times for your team with one click. Anyone got any ideas?
I will have a think. It must be pretty easy to sync with outlook from a batch file but would be nice to synv straight to your p800. I will mail the SE engineers and see what they say.
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thumbandit
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id like this idea to work  but im not sure how to implement it i was thinking of writing the fixtures into outlook then exporting to a file then syncing with p800 ... not sure how to do it tho ?? 
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Ron_L
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On 2003-05-19 17:29, thumbandit wrote:
What i mean is ..... I want to include a file that includes dates for the P800 Calender so if u wanted to add a certain set of sporting fixtures etc you could add them all to your p800 calender using the file .. which would be downloadable from my site
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Last year I found a web site that included schedules for many major sports. I was able to download the Chicago Bears (American football) schedule into outlook and then those entries would be sync'd to my Pocket PC (now to my P800). Of course, I can't find the link to that site, but I'll look ofr it and post it if I can find it...
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thumbandit
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that would be great .... exactly the kinda thing i want ... i know how to do it with 1 event but it would take too long to do it for loads i.e a 40 match season
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Ron_L
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On 2003-05-19 19:39, thumbandit wrote:
that would be great .... exactly the kinda thing i want ... i know how to do it with 1 event but it would take too long to do it for loads i.e a 40 match season
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Well... i found the site that I was thinking of, but it is US-Centric... Here's a link anyways...
http://www.calendar-updates.com/
Maybe htere is something similar for other countries?
...ron
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julianmclean
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Just had a look at that calendar-updates site. The download files are .pst (Outlook folder files) which are not exactly easy to decipher.
I just tried playing around with Outlook - I created a calendar appointment and then exported it as CSV (Windows). This created a nicely readable file format which I could edit as required. I changed the appointment time/date/name and then tried re-importing this back into Outlook as CSV (Windows) expecting it to appear in my calendar, but it didn't work! Outlook didn't complain or anything, but the entries just didn't appear! This must be possible to do - anyone got any ideas? I'm sure after a bit of playing around with the various file formats available, one could be made to work, and then it would simply be a case of generating the file using excel/script/etc and handing it out for people to import. |
GavMackem
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For football www.ratetheref.co.uk done last seasons fixtures for individual clubs for Outlook which worked and synced perfectly with firstly my t68 and now my P800.. |
epscilon
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I exported a file from the calendar in outlook:
file/import and export/commar seperated values (windows)
It saves it into a kind of excel file. You can edit this file and add new dates to it (all the required fields are there) and then save it. THen try and import it back into outlook. It works fine. In theory you could put this file on the web and people could download it and put it into their outlook. Whether they would trust you with all the virus's flying around is a different matter. |
julianmclean
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@epscilon
How did you manage to get it to work in Outlook? I have tried a few times and the process seems to work but my imported calendar entries do not appear! I am doing a simple CSV export, edit in notepad, import. I am just trying it with my work Outlook 2000 which is configured a bit strange, so I will try again at home, but I don't see why it isn't working! These files would be very easy to generate and as they are only CSV, there shouldn't be any risk of viruses - people can just open them and see the text inside - there is a more greater risk of viruses in .sis files. |
thumbandit
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this is all sounding very good
im gonna look into thos sites now
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epscilon
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Hmm, It's strange it is not wotking for you. I basically did what I said in my post. Exported a file to see what it looked like. Opened it and then copied a line of the file. Then I edited the dates and time and info and saved it. Then imported it back in re started outlook and there was the info I had added and imported. I am using OL2000.
Let me know how you get on and if you can get it to work. If not I will document exactly how I did it.
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