CALENDAR: How do I add an Athletic Team's calendar to my personal calendar?
Note: this will be a live feed - any updates will reflect on your calendar.
There are two ways to subscribe to an Athletic Team's Calendar:
From the public websiteNavigate to the Athletics calendar:
https://www.shschools.org/page/athletics/athletics-calendar
Use the filter to select the team you are interested in and populate your view with only your chosen team's events (you can select multiple teams).
Find the iCal feed button.
Either:- Right click (control click on a Mac) and select Copy Link Address for google calendars. Go to your Google Calendar and beside the My Calendars section, select Add by URL to paste the Link Address into your new calendar.
OR
- Click directly on the iCal feed button to subscribe onto your default calendar program (for example on your smartphone).
From the logged in (portals section):
Once logged in, under the top navigation:
Select Groups > Find more
Browse Groups with Group Type : Athletics, and Filter = name of sport, i.e. Lacrosse
Select the eam name you are searching for
Select Schedule
Select Calendar View
Copy the Feed URL
Open your Calendar Application:
On an iPhone, you can usually just select the button and your iPhone will prompt you to Add Calendar? Say yes.
On Google calendar, add by url and paste in the url.
TROUBLESHOOTING ISSUES WITH GOOGLE CALENDARS ON A COMPUTER: When attempting to add an ON calendar feed URL to a Google Calendar, users may receive an error indicating the calendar failed to be added or they may see that nothing happens and no events are added.. However, the calendar feed can be added successfully to other third party calendars.
Google Calendar only supports calendar URLs up to 250 characters. If the calendar feed URL exceeds 250 characters, users will need to run the URL through a shortener in order to add the feed to Google Calendar
In order to shorten a calendar feed URL:
- Copy the URL of your calendar feed
- Go to https://bitly.com/
- Paste the URL of your calendar in the box
- Remove the webcal:// section from the beginning of the URL
- Click Shorten
- Copy the generated short URL
- Add the shortened URL to your Google Calendar
Another option is to filter the event categories included in the feed to reduce the length of the URL.