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Sunday, 25 January 2004 |
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2004 AFL Fixture - ready for importing into Outlook
Every year when the AFL publishes the fixture, I look for ways to get that information into my calendar. The AFL in all their wisdom, don't make it readily available in a convenient format, so I need to get creative. For the past few years, I've used an application found here, which reads fixtures from the AFL website and reformats them in a comma separated values format, for easy importing into Outlook, Access, Excel and other programs. However, The AFL changed the layout of their website and this no longer works exactly as planned (some fields are no longer filled in). I tried it for the 2004 fixture and it didn't work! So, i turned to google and searched for alternatives. I thought I hit jackpot when I found the icalshare site, and it had a afl section. BUT outlook didn't accept the file. BUMMER! Then I found a fellow tragic, such as myself who does the same thing - but he is a Tiger supporter and only did a fixture for the Tigers. Good one Dude - What about me!!! Then I found this site and was really excited, since someone there has been doing this for years - but not 2004! Arrgggg! So, I spent the next 30 minutes in excel and created my own. It is a CSV file which can be imported into Outlook. Now, you can enjoy the fruits of my labour!!
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