Post on 23-Dec-2015
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What it does?
SharePoint Calendars Aggregation, Team Calendars, Mini-Calendars - Now
available in KWizCom Calendar Plus All-In-One solution!
Why did we create it?
× SharePoint calendars do not allow aggregation of events from different lists/sites
× There is no event coloring, drag &drop or tooltip options in a regular SharePoint
web part displaying a calendar view
× There are no customization options for different time zones, no dynamic view
toggling and no calendar printing option
× SharePoint does not allow Google calendars or Outlook web access calendars
integration
× Events can not be integrated from any external applications like SAP/Oracle ERP
systems
× Adding new events or editing existing ones is messy and requires redirection
Aggregate events from multiple SharePoint sites
Connect to any required list type (not only "Events")
Support list views - enabling you to aggregate list items defined by custom SharePoint
list views
Integration with SharePoint 'mini' Calendar and a Mini-calendar display mode
Customizable, optional tooltip and customizable time display format
Google style quick event creation and drag and drop
Connect to Google calendars
Connect to Outlook Web Access (OWA) calendars (Exchange 2003/2007) and display
user's Outlook calendar
Calendar Plus Key Features
Add events to Outlook from Calendar Plus web part
Aggregates data from any legacy application using web services
Event coloring according to event source and type
Event coloring according to list property values
Dynamic generated background colors for aggregated list levels
Support dynamic URL tokens – tokens such as [current site] enable you to use the
Calendar Plus web part in a site template using relative URL
Asynchronous events loading – A MUST when you have MANY events to display - all
events are loaded without delaying the loading of the SharePoint site
Calendar printing and more…
Calendar Plus Key Features cont.
SharePoint Calendar Plus is part of:
KWizCom SP Collaboration Bundle
Web Content Management Bundle
KWizCom SP Project Management Bundle
Calendar Plus allows aggregation of events
into one calendar display from different lists (not necessarily
events lists!)
This is how the List Calendar Plus
web part looks
All the SharePoint calendar menu
options are available with additional improvements
Easily toggle between calendar and table
views!
This is how the table view display is
presented, notice that the event coloring is
preserved
Click ‘New’ to create a new event on any connected list you
choose
You can also create an event by clicking on the desired date and enter the main
event details (time, title and location- Google calendar
style)
To change the event date you can simply drag and drop the
event to a different date
Dropping the event at the desired date
changed the event date details
automatically in the hosting list!
To view/edit the properties of an event simply click on it and get a pop-up with the
event details (no redirection!)
Clicking edit will allow you to change the
event properties in the hosting list (changes
will also take affect on the web part)
Hovering over any date will present the details of the events scheduled for that
date
You may want to display the aggregated calendar
in a ‘mini’ display or integrate it with
SharePoint mini calendar (which appears on
calendar lists)
Notice the color indicators that
mark the number of events per day
on the mini display
At any point you can add more event lists to the aggregated calendar
Birthdays may also be integrated from external HR
applications (using web service providers)
Google calendars may be integrated into
SharePoint calendars
Outlook web access calendars are also
available with Calendar Plus!
Aggregate external calendars and present
them using all the powerful coloring and
categorizing abilities of Calendar Plus!
At any point you can modify the web part settings by choosing the modify option on the web parts menu
So Lets see how we accomplished all this…
This is the List Calendar Plus settings interface
The settings are divided into categories so you
can easily find the settings you want to
editEspecially useful for calendars with many
events, choose this option to reduce loading time
Choose the display style of the Calendar
Choose the display method of the event details
between a new window, the same
window, or the events daily
display
General settings cont.
you can change the default
template file of the web part
Apply your own custom CSS file to
the web part (it should be use the
classes specified in the
CalendarPlusCustom.css
Change the display styles of the
calendar and the table views
Calendar View
settings
Define the preferred time display,
according to the formats specified in
the following comment
Define the number of elements to display on the
web parts interface
Choose the display style of the Calendar
Choose the work days of
the week
Calendar View
settings
Choose the start and end time for work
days
After specifying the work days
you can choose to hide non-working days
For the weekly/daily
views choose the amount of slots to designate per
hour
Toolbar& Size settings
You may entirely remove the options
toolbar from the web parts display
You can choose to merge the calendar toolbar menu with
the header to create one overall
menuTo save space choose
to display partial names of days/monthsYou can define a
fixed size to the web part and
adjust the calendar to the web parts size
Mini Calendar settingsCheck this to
allow a tooltip with the events
details while hovering over it
Choose to display today’s details and the position of the details
box
Table View settingsAllow a tooltip with
the events details to appear while
hovering over the event
Add you own values to be displayed
instead of the names of
SharePoint/OWA/custom Services fields
Table View settingsAt any point you can
edit or delete your custom field names
Create custom table views with a
display span customization
Choose the range of dates to display, you can make the span dynamic by using
tokens and calculations like demonstrated
OWA settings
To add OWA calendars insert the
server name followed by ‘/exchange’
You may use the outlook categories in the calendars
display
Choose the outlook field that
will appear on the event tooltip
You may choose to load only
public and shared outlook calendars
OWA settings
Enter the desired OWA calendar
name
Specify the background and text colors to use
for the outlook calendars events
display
Use default login credentials or specify a username and
password to load the OWA calendar
SharePoint Calendar Lists
settingsTo add SharePoint
lists to the aggregated calendar choose first the site
name which hosts the desired list
Use dynamic generated colors
to display the current lists
events or define your own
Choose the list name and the view
according to which the events will be
presented
SharePoint Calendar Lists
settings
Choose the fields to be displayed in the
details tooltip
note that you must specify the title, start and
end dated
For non-calendar lists match the list fields with calendar
fields
Custom Web Service settings
Specify the full URL to the desired custom web
service
Enter parameters to send to the web service provider, you may use
free text of the specified here tokens
Google Calendar settings
Enter the full URL to the desired Google
Calendar
Apply meeting categories and
coloring settings for the events
display
Adding New Items
settings
Allow creation of new items on the hosting list using the web part’s
options
Allow quick event adding and editing (drag and drop),
as applied on Google calendars
Choose on which connected lists to allow adding items
Color Indicator settings
Allow color indicators for the number of events- especially useful for the mini calendar display
Define the desired colors to mark each day according to the number of events
Time Zone settings
For global organizations that
work in different time zones allow time zone
selection
Mark the time zones that should appear in the selection or leave
the time zones unmarked to present
them all
Language settings
KWizCom products are designed to have
multilingual support
Mark the right to left direction checkbox to present right to left
languages
Define for each button/function the
caption in the desired language
Calendar Plus usage scenarios
Enterprise and team calendarsCreate an aggregated calendar from events located on different list and sites.
Integration of external calendarsDisplay Google and OWA calendars in your SharePoint portal as well as events from external
applications like employee birthdays pulled from your SAP/Oracle ERP systems.
Mini CalendarsPresent aggregated calendars in a ‘mini’ display mode and integrate Calendar Plus with SharePoint
mini calendars.
Globalized events displayUse the Time- zone customization options to make the enterprise calendar relevant to users all
across the globe.
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