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11/21/2008

Friday Cool Content: SharePoint calendars - color coding and other fun stuff

I have seen a lot of posts here and elsewhere that ask about how to get around some of the current limitations in SharePoint when working with and customizing calendars.

Christophe, who runs the Path to SharePoint blog for end users, has recently published a great post that explains how to render HTML in list views and extend it to a calendar view by using a little JavaScript. In his example, he provides the script and HTML formulas to customize how calendars are rendered in SharePoint.

Check out Christophe's post, SharePoint calendars: color coding, hover effects, etc. and let us know what you think.

Happy Friday!

--Cris

SharePoint End-user Content Team

Posted at 8:51 AM by | Category: Calendaring | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (2)

10/31/2008

Friday Cool Content: Create one Master Calendar from multiple team calendars

Our friends at End User SharePoint.com have come up with an elegant solution to a gnarly calendar problem in SharePoint. Here's how their solution, to aggregate calendars in SharePoint, could help my team.

We use a team site calendar to let each other know when we're OOF (out of facility), at an off site appointment, or WAH (working at home). We also rotate responsibility to attend weekly meetings, so the calendar reflects whose turn it is to attend the meeting. Outlook lets us overlay the SharePoint team calendar on our personal calendar, so we can view all of this information simultaneously.

However, our team now has a second SharePoint calendar that we use to sign up for the days that we will post on this blog. It would be really cool to be able to combine the blog calendar with our team calendar so that we could easily compare days that we are available (in the office) with the days that need blog posts.

If we could aggregate other team calendars with the Get the 'Point calendar then people from other teams could see when posts are scheduled (or not), and compare the events and milestones on their team calendar to find the best time to schedule a blog post given their other responsibilities. Currently, that's really hard to do.

The folks at End User SharePoint.com make it look easy (or easier) in their screencast for this week.

Check out: Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint - Part 2 (Screencast).

Happy Friday!

...Renée

SharePoint Content Team

Posted at 4:49 PM by | Category: Collaboration; Team Sites; Calendaring | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (4)