Microsoft Sharepoint Web Parts
Color Calendar Web Part
Installation Instructions:
- download the Color Calendar Web Part Installation Instructions (PDF file)
- deploy the feature to your server/farm as described in the instructions.
- Navigate to a page where you would like to place the webpart and choose "Site Actions/Edit Page"
- Add the web part to the appropriate zone. The web part is listed in the "Amrein Engineering" web part gallery section
- Configure the Web Part properties in the Web Part Editor "Miscellaneous" pane section as described in the Installation Instructions:
- Site Name: Enter the name of the site that contains the Sharepoint Calendar:
- leave this field empty if the Calendar is in the current site (eg. the Web Part is placed in the same site) - Enter a "/" character if the Calendar is contained in the top site - Enter a path if the Calendar is in a subsite of the current site (eg. in the form of "current site/subsite")
- Calendar Name: Enter the desired Sharepoint Calendar name.
- View Name: Optionally enter the desired List View of the Calendar specified above. A List View allows you to specify specific data filtering. Leave this field empty if you want to use the Calendar's default view.
- Calendar Width: enter the desired width of the Calendar in pixels. Enter "0" if you want the web part to use all the available width.
- Calendar Height: enter the desired height of the Calendar in pixels
- Category Column: enter the name of the calendar column to be used for the category (Default=Category)
- Category Colors You can individually color the calendar entries for each appointment category by specifying the desired color (prefixed by an 'equal' sign) for each Calendar category. Please create a new "Category" List column in your Sharepoint calendar which will hold the desired categories.
Example: Vacation=yellow;Meeting=#CCFFCC;Holiday=red
Enter either the HTML color names (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC")
- Status Column: you can add another level of color coding by entering the name of the calendar column to be used for the "Status" color coding.
- Status Colors You can individually color the calendar entries for each appointment by specifying the desired color (prefixed by an 'equal' sign) for each Calendar "status".
Example: Tentative=yellow;Approved=#CCFFCC;Cancelled=red
Enter either the HTML color names (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC")
- Show Details View Link: link the displayed appointments to the Sharepoint calendar's detail view page.
If an "URL" list column is found in the specified Sharepoint Calendar, it will be used instead as a hyperlink for the corresponding appointment.
- Open Link in Edit View: link the appointment titles to the Sharepoint calendar item "Edit" form.
- Show Appointment Titles: hide or show the appointment title
- Truncate Appointment Titles: truncates the appointment title so it occupies only one line of text to save vertical space (ie. it does not wrap around):
- Show Appointment Start Time: hide or show the appointment start times
- Show Appointment End Time: hide or show the appointment end times
- Enable iCalendar Export: hide or show the buttons to export the appointment to the user's desktop calendar (as eg. Microsoft Outlook).
- Hide Weekends: display or hide the weekends in the calendar
- Hide Sundays: display or hide the Sundays in the calendar
- Hide Other Month entries: display or hide the events belonging to the previous or to the next month.
- Week View: display only one week at a time
- Show Additional Columns: optionally enter the desired Calendar column(s) to be displayed in addition to the start time and appointment title. Separate multiple columns with a semicolon.
Example: Location;Room;Manager
- Tooltip Template: optionally enter the desired Calendar column(s) to be displayed in the appointment's tooltip. Separate multiple columns with a semicolon.
- Category Colors Legend: display or hide the Category colors legend at the bottom of the calendar.
You can click on a category to filter the calendar by this category:
Clicking again on the selected category removes the filter.
- Category Legend Position: either place the Category legend at the top or at the bottom of the calendar.
- Nbr. of calendar items: Enter the desired maximum number of calendar items to be displayed. Enter "0" if you do not want to impose a limit.
- Calendar Start Date: optionally enter a date to be used as the calendar's start date. Enter the date either in the form mm/dd/yyyy or a positive or negative month offset.
Examples: 9/1/2012 (sets the calendar to September 2012) +12 (sets the calendar 12 months into the future) -1 (sets the calendar to the previous month)
- Show 'Day View' Links: display or hide the 'open Day View' links in the header area of each day cell (Sharepoint 2010/2013 only)
- Show 'Add New Item' Button: display or hide the 'Add new calendar item' link at the bottom. Please note that the link is only visible for users with the corresponding calendar "Author" rights.
- Show 'Open Calendar' Button: display or hide the 'Open Calendar' link at the bottom. This link points to the underlying Sharepoint calendar page.
- Show 'Print Calendar' Button: display or hide the 'Print Calendar' link at the bottom. The link opens a new window which just contains the calendar ready to be printed.
- Title Colors: enter the desired foreground and background colors of the title area (separated by semicolons).
Enter either the HTML color names (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC")
- Day Header Colors: enter the desired foreground and background colors of the weekday header area (separated by semicolons). Enter either the HTML color names (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC").
Example: green;#ffcc99
You can optionally also specify the Day header font size (in points) and font name by appending these two settings to the foreground and background colors: Example: white;#20CC80;18;Calibri
- Weekday Color: enter the desired background color of the weekdays. Enter either the HTML color name (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC").
- Current Day Color: enter the desired background color of the current day. Enter either the HTML color name (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC").
- Other Months Color: enter the desired background color of the days belonging to the previous or next month. Enter either the HTML color name (as eg. "red" etc.) or use hexadecimal RRGGBB coding (as eg. "#CCFFCC").
- Localization: enter the following 5 strings (separated by semicolons) in your local language if you need to override the English strings corresponding to the
- "All Day" event - "Print Calendar" link - "Add new entry" link - "Open Calendar" link - "Week of.." header (when using the Weekly view)
- License Key:
enter your Product License Key (as supplied after purchase of the Enterprise license). Leave this field empty if you are using the free evaluation version. |
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