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You can create a Calendar View on any list or library in SharePoint. Say, you have a document library where you track invoices. And a few pieces of metadata are Date Received and Due Date. You can build a calendar view and display the dates in a calendar format.
SharePoint Option 1: SharePoint Calendar web part. Historically, this has been the only option to manage events in SharePoint. Behind the scenes, SharePoint Calendar is a SharePoint list, with rows for events and columns (Event Title, Location, Start Date, End Date, etc.) for metadata. Pros: Can easily customize and create your own metadata
What can I do with SharePoint Designer 2010?
In addition to creating a list view, you can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create a standalone Data View that can read from any number of data sources, including SharePoint lists and libraries, databases, Web services, and server-side scripts.
What does a SharePoint calendar look like behind the scenes?
Behind the scenes, SharePoint Calendar is a SharePoint list, with rows for events and columns (Event Title, Location, Start Date, End Date, etc.) for metadata.
Click on a day that has an event. The details of the events from that day are shown in the panel on the right. Select the View options menu on the right end of the command bar: Select Set current view as default . From now one, when you or your co-workers open the list, it will be shown as a calendar.
The default SharePoint calendar allows users to overlay only up to 10 calendars in a single view. Virto Calendar app breaks that limit so that you can overlay as many calendars as you need. SharePoint calendar customization made incredibly easy.
How do I update my calendar in SharePoint?
You can set it appropriately by doing the following: 1) Go to the Calendar tab in the ribbon at the top. Click on Day, Week, or Month view and the calendar will be updated temporarily.