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12/9/2009

SharePoint 2010 – Calendar Overlay

There are some great new features with Calendars in 2010; specifically I am referring to the overlay feature. This feature basically allows you to add additional calendar views to your view and display the entries with a specific color. Here are some screenshots of the feature. It looks like the limit is 10 calendars and you can add either SharePoint or Exchange calendars. I didn't have easy access to exchange, so I just tested the SharePoint calendars. I added 2 new overlays to my view – another calendar (Calendar 2) and a Tasks Lists Calendar View (Tasks). This shows that any list that has a calendar view can be displayed in the overlay.

Posted at 11:42 AM by Jennifer Mason | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (18)

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Can different color be used for different types of calendar entry?

I am not talking about using different colors for different calendar, but rather different types of entries within the same calendar. Thanks.

at 2/11/2010 1:05 PM

Great Question!

This is a great question! Since the calendar overlay is based on views, you could in theory create different views of your list and then reference those in the overlay. I have tested this approach and it works great. I will likely follow up with an additional blog post in the next day or so.

The only thing to keep in mind is that you are limited to 10 overlays. But I think this is good, anymore than 10 and it would be very busy.

Hope this helps, if you have more questions let me know!

-Jennifer

Jennifer Mason at 2/13/2010 10:14 PM

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