The days of noting your appointments on paper calendars and diaries are gone. Online calendars that can also be shared with others are in. Online calendar sharing is one of the strengths of SharePoint 2010. SharePoint calendars reside on a centralized platform where teams can create, maintain, update, and share calendars with others. Apps4Rent offers hosted SharePoint plans starting at $8.95/month with online calendar sharing for unlimited users. Sign up now and track task deadlines, event schedules, meetings, and more.
SharePoint 2010 Calendar Features
JavaScript Usage: SharePoint 2010 user interface use JavaScript which reduces the amount of post backs to the web server. JavaScript helps you to update only the required calendar part instead of the whole page. Moreover, you can add a new event or schedule detail to the calendar on the dialog box that pops up—thanks to JavaScript!
Calendar Overlay: Calendar overlay features allows you to overlay another calendar and helps view both at the same time by just choosing a color. SharePoint 2010 calendar web part offers various useful views such as week, day, quarter, month, year, and Gantt.
Microsoft Outlook Integration: You can add your SharePoint calendar to Outlook which allows you two view calendars simultaneously. You can overlay the calendars to view all items in a central place. You can also manage your items in multiple calendars. Using SharePoint calendar Outlook feature, you can drag and drop your appointments or items in Outlook into your SharePoint calendar and run the send/receive button. Your SharePoint Outlook calendar gets synchronized automatically.
Multiple Data Source Support: SharePoint group calendar allows you to pull data from various sources such as SQL Table/View, SharePoint Library/List, or legacy systems via BDC connections.
Color Coding: SharePoint calendar sharing enables color coding thus allowing you to differentiate groups, people, and selected choices, among others to show the chosen value of the SharePoint item.
Rich Tool Tip Interface: The tool tip interface in SharePoint calendar workflow interface allows you to hover over items in SharePoint calendar view. Using this feature, you can recover data without leaving the page.
Custom Holiday Lists: You can build custom holiday lists and show them in the calendar views background in SharePoint calendar template.
Multiple Language Support: SharePoint calendar web parts enable you to translate all texts to any of your preferred languages. This makes calendar sharing an easy-to-use experience.
Hard Copy Print Option: You can print the calendar view if you want to maintain a hard copy of the same.
Gantt Chart View: Create SharePoint calendar reminders that allow you to have a Gantt chart view to understand each stage, milestones, per cent of work completed as well as start and finish data of project schedule.
Filter View: You can filter items in SharePoint 2010 calendar with the help of web part connections.
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