You can use the Athletics Calendar part to add athletics calendars to your website. Athletics Calendar parts can:
| • | Act as standalone calendars. For example, the athletics department at your school manages its own calendars on your website. |
| • | Work as sub-calendars that feed events to a larger athletics calendar. For example, your website has a main athletics calendar that lists events for all types of sports played at the school. With the Event Calendar Group part, each team calendar can feed events from their Athletics Calendar parts into the main calendar for the school. For more information about Event Calendar Groups, see Event Calendar Group. These can also feed events into the Event Calendar Highlights part that displays short descriptions of upcoming or prior events on any web page. The display includes the event name, date, and time and may also include a link to the event calendar, where the user can view more details about the event. For more information about Event Calendar Highlights, see Event Calendar Highlights. |
Athletics Calendar parts are very similar to Event Calendar parts, as far as the design options and how the parts work on the website. The major difference is that when you add events to an athletics calendar, you can include athletics specific information such as the team, opponent, score, and outcome.
Note: Before you can add events to an Athletics Calendar part, you must create an Athletics Manager part to define teams, events, locations, and season settings. For information about the Athletics Manager part, see Athletics Manager.
You can use Athletics Calendar part properties to manage who views and manages each calendar. For example, a school may have a sub-calendar of athletics events that only users assigned to Administrator or Faculty roles can view or edit. You can also use Event Categories to manage the types of events added to the calendar and who manages them. For example, a soccer calendar may have categories such as Registration, Practice, and Games, and only users in the Coaches role have rights to add, edit, or delete events in these categories.
Calendar managers can create recurring events. When you edit recurring events, the manager can select whether to change all occurrences in the series, only the selected occurrence, or all future occurrences in the series including the selected occurrence. When you change an occurrence of an event, you cannot later make that occurrence part of a recurring series.
Calendar managers can select a time zone for the event. If an event does not have a specific time zone, the logged-in user’s time zone setting determines the date and time displayed for the event. For anonymous users or any user who does not have a time zone specified, the event displays the time and date based on the system’s setting. If your website users are all in the same time zone, we recommend managers leave the time zone field blank. If your website users are in multiple time zones, we recommend you set the time zone to the user’s setting.
Calendar managers can to add Google or Yahoo! map links to event locations. They can use the HTML editor to add pictures and hyperlinks and to format text.
To cancel an event, a manager can select Mark Canceled. In the List View and Calendar Highlights, the event title is appended with “- Canceled.” In the Calendar View, the event name is struck through. For the calendar weblog, “Update” or “Removed” is added to the title, and readers who subscribe to the calendar weblog receive an updated calendar event posting through their RSS feed.
Website users have four views of the calendar: the Calendar View, the List View, Published Events, and Event Details View.
| • | The Calendar View displays a large monthly calendar. Dates with scheduled events are colored and list the events that occur that day. Users can click Filter Events to customize the categories of events that appear. Event names are hyperlinked so users can click them to read more information about the event. In this view, icons indicate whether an event is recurring, occurs in a specific time zone, or lasts longer than one day. |
| • | The List View displays a list of all the events scheduled for the selected period of time. Event names are hyperlinked so users can click them to read more information about the event. Users can filter events by date or click Filter Events to select the types of events to view. |
| • | If you enable the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Event Publishing capabilities, calendar managers can post “stories” in a weblog form with details about upcoming events. Site users can click Published Events to view the calendar weblog. Posted events also appear in site search results. Website users can subscribe to the RSS feed so they receive updates in their RSS reader about upcoming events. |
| • | The Event Details View is the page that appears when a website user clicks on an event in the Calendar View or List View. It displays the details for the selected event. |
In the Calendar View, List View, and the Event Details View, users can click Print View to open a window displaying the printer-friendly version of the calendar or event.
Also in the Calendar View, List View, and the Event Details View, users can click Export as iCalendar to export events in the iCalendar format (*.ics) so they can be opened in other calendar programs, such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal. The export file includes only the events appearing currently in the calendar; if the calendar is filtered, filtered out events are not exported. If an event is time zone specific but not recurring, the event time is converted to UTC time in the export file. If an event is time zone specific but is recurring, the export file includes the event time zone as well as the daylight savings rules for that time zone. The export file includes any *.html event descriptions but does not include event graphics. In the Event Details View, additional buttons appear so users can add the single event to their Windows Live, Google, or Yahoo! calendars.
Note: When using a version of Microsoft Outlook older than version 7, users should save the exported *.ics file to their local machine and use the Import an iCalendar file function in Outlook. If users with an older version attempt to import by double-clicking the saved *.ics file, it imports only the first event and discards any others. Users with Outlook 7 can double-click the saved *.ics file to import all events with no issues.