MS Outlook And The Brewers Schedule

[sgtcluels]

My buddy Dan found this on their site, but.. you too can never not know when the Brewers are playing! Perfect for all you Blackberry/Treo users out there!

 

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/schedule/downloadable.jsp?c_id=mil

 

Import the 08 Schedule into outlook!

[DrG1ue]

This is excellent. Imported the schedule into google calendar as well as my Cell Phone's calendar.

 

You don't need a crackberry to import this either. I uploaded it via bluetooth to my phone's calendar using BitPim.

 

Thanks for this.

[RobDeer 45]

Yeah I saw this the other day on their site and downloaded it. Now I got it on my computer and my phone and it makes me JACKED! Can't wait for the season to start!

[JJHardy7]

Will it erase other events in my Outlook? Or just add the Brewers to it?

[DrG1ue]

Not sure about outlook. But it added all the new records into my Google calendar without replacing the existing events.

 

I would assume that Outlook would do the same but probably worth your time to backup outlook before doing so. Think that you just backup some files.

 

http://email.about.com/cs/outlooktips/qt/et102102.htm

[RightFieldCoder]

I haven't been able to get it onto Google Calendar. I keep getting this error:

 

Oops, we're sorry, Google Calendar is temporarily unavailable. You can cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes, or take a look at our help center for more information.

 

I've done everything they said. I turned off all of Norton Security, reset all of my cookies, deleted my temp files, logged in and logged out, but I can not get upload that file. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[DrG1ue]

I haven't been able to get it onto Google Calendar. I keep getting this error:

 

Oops, we're sorry, Google Calendar is temporarily unavailable. You can cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes, or take a look at our help center for more information.

I got this for a while too. It seems that the CSV file that MLB.com has up has some invalid header info. If you uncapitalize all the headers and remove underscores then google understands it. ex: START_DATE, DESCRIPTION goes to Start Date, Description

 

Also, you can edit the CSV file further to remove all the crap columns (eastern time zone info, reminder stuff) using excell or some csv editor (http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html). I also removed all "buy tickets here" text.

 

Let me know if you have trouble with this still and I could send you my final edited CSV if ya like.

[sgtcluels]

It will just add them JJ.

[JJ Hardy Har Har]

Love it! My Outlook calendar is my life, and my wife only has 98% control over it.

[RightFieldCoder]

From Google Calendar I just looked for someone else's Brewers Clanedar and got it from there. Thanks for the info, though. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have that problem.

[RightFieldCoder]

For those of you that have Google Calendar:

 

If you want the games color coded (like home games in blue and road games in gray), I added two Calendars to the public. Search for "Milwaukee Brewers" with the search public calendars button. Add these two files: Milwaukee Brewers 2008-A and Milwaukee Brewers 2008-H. Then you can set them to whatever colors you want for home and away.