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Calendar Plus Web Part - Release 2.2 - from Bamboo Solutions
What Does It Do?
Usually communicate date-based list data through several useful views: Go to Date, Task, Gantt, Day, Week, Work Week, Month, Quarter and Year. View information such as events, tasks, milestones, project initiatives, legacy data, or employee vacation plans. Select a SharePoint List, a SQL Server Table or View or a DataView Web Part created by our List Rollup Web Part as the data source for your calendar items. Display calendar items by the list column of your choice, apply color-coding, apply a custom or list view filter to the calendar items, and display holidays stored in a separate list. In addition, configure the Gantt View to display project task information along with percent complete and milestone indicators. The Calendar Plus Web Part also provides support for several languages including Spanish, French, Italian, and German.
| Calendar Plus Web Part vs . SharePoint Out-of-the-Box Functionality |
SPS 2003, WSS 2.0 |
MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0 |
Calendar Plus |
| Provide yearly as well as quarterly, task, day, week, or month view |  |
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| Display calendar items with selected colors based on the type of items | |
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| Resize the calendar within a page (scrollbars will appear if too small) | |
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| Select which field in the list to display in the calendar | |
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| Specify number of items to display in each calendar cell | |
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| Ability to display or hide toolbar and legends | |
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| Ability to specify holidays list for display | |
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| Display calendar items with different filtering criteria or filter using an existing list's view | |
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| Filter calendar items using standard Web Part connections | |
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| Support Document Library, Picture Library, Form Library and more | |
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| Provide Gantt chart view for project management tasks - New! | |
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| Interface with Bamboo's List Rollup web part, allowing users to view consolidate tasks from multiple lists in a calendar - New! | |
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| Interface with SQL database, provide calendar view of your backend data | |
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| Print a hard-copy version of any calendar view | |
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| Control the look and feel of each calendar through custom CSS | |
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| Ability to specify working days and starting day of the work week per calendar - New! | |
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How Does It Work?
You can configure the Web Part to default to a particular view (i.e. task, day, work week, month, etc.), display a specified number of items per calendar cell, and display the color coding legend for the column you select for color coding. When you select your list for your calendar source data, you can specify which list column you want to display as well as select a column for color coding. The color coding column should be a multiple choice column, such as a drop-down list of options. An example would be a Status column. The Status column usually has several statuses like In progress, Completed, or Deferred. Each of these options can be assigned a color so that when your item is displayed in the calendar, it will show in the color indicated by its status. Once you select your list and color coding, you must specify which single date (i.e. modified, created, begin, end) or date range to use for displaying items in the calendar. Apply a custom filter or list view if needed and indicate from which list you would like to display holiday items. Specify the column to display for holidays as well as the date column and color coding. Why Did We Build It?
Why Did We Build It?
The standard SharePoint list calendar view only allows you to display the title column of list items that have a date field associated with them in a daily, weekly, and monthly view for one list. In today's fast-paced world, employees must be able to comprehend large amounts of information in order to quickly make informed decisions. Viewing information in a Calendar view is a powerful tool for communicating tasks coming due, integrating legacy data into SharePoint, status of planned initiatives for the year, company holidays, when employees will be on vacation or out of the office, or major company events.
