Aug 22, 2007
In Ben`s previous post, he spoke about sharing a calendar via e-mail. Many people correctly commented that sharing a calendar via e-mail does not support subscriptions and that for items that changed regularly, it was difficult to use. Can Comertoglu (our Calendar Sharing Program Manager for Office 2007) spent some time with Ben to put together this guide on how he uses the Office Online publishing features of Microsoft Outlook 2007 to manage a soccer team.
In order to be able to field a cohesive team on a regular basis, Can juggles times, locations, and team players. Can`s soccer team`s schedule changes week to week and the players are from all over Seattle, so Can needs to be able to create a team calendar that can work for everyone and be updated unobtrusively. For example, the calendar must be usable by a combination of different calendaring clients, besides Outlook 2007Like most soccer teams, Can`s team gets together at least twice a week for regular practices and then irregularly for matches, and he needs to be able to communicate these scheduling changes to everyone on the team as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
Like the example that Ben provided last week, Can is able to maintain a separate team calendar in Outlook 2007 for his soccer team. He uses Outlook 2007`s Office Online calendar publishing features to share his soccer calendar with his team. By publishing the team calendar to Office Online, he can make frequent changes to the schedule without having to send out a new copy each time. Team members that use ICalendar compatible clients have the option to subscribe to the calendar and receive automatic updates. Players that do not have software that supports this standard can still view the team calendar using the Office Online web site.
We have made a sample soccer calendar available on Office Online so that you can see how this functionality works. Here is how we did it: Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/08/08/publishing-a-calendar-using-office-online.aspx
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