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Content Management Calendars Calendar Plus Web Part by Bamboo Solutions
 

Calendar Plus Web Part by Bamboo Solutions Hot

 
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Web Part
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Developer Bamboo Solutions
Supports MOSS 2007WSS v3SPS 2003WSS v2
Price, US $ 400.00
Free Trial Yes
Website http://store.bamboosolutions.com

Calendar Plus SharePoint Web Part lets you keep your company’s events and initiatives on track and up-to-date. Visually communicate date-based list data through several useful views: Go to Date, Task, Gantt, Day, Week, Work Week, Month, Quarter and Year.


View information such as events, tasks, milestones, project initiatives, legacy data, or employee vacation plans. Select a SharePoint List, a SQL Server Table or View or a DataView Web Part created by our List Rollup Web Part as the data source for your calendar items. New Items can be created easily by double-clicking a date or time cell in any view.

Display calendar items by the list column of your choice, apply color-coding, apply a custom or list view filter to the calendar items, and display holidays stored in a separate list from any site within the Site Collection.

In addition, configure the Gantt View to display project task information along with percent complete and milestone indicators. The milestones can be based from any date fields such as Modified, Created By, Start Date or End Date. The Calendar Plus Web Part also provides support for several languages including Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

You can configure the Web Part to default to a particular view (i.e. task, day, work week, month, or via a specific time interval), display a specified number of items per calendar cell, and display the color coding legend for the column you select for color coding. When you select your list for your calendar source data, you can specify which list column you want to display as well as select a column for color coding. The color coding column should be a multiple choice column, such as a drop-down list of options. An example would be a Status column. The Status column usually has several statuses like In progress, Completed, or Deferred.

Each of these options can be assigned a color so that when your item is displayed in the calendar, it will show in the color indicated by its status. Once you select your list and color coding, you must specify which single date (i.e. modified, created, begin, end) or date range to use for displaying items in the calendar. Apply a custom filter or list view if needed via the List View, Use Filter, or Runtime Filtering options, and indicate from which list you would like to display holiday items. Specify the column to display for holidays as well as the date column and color coding. Ensure holiday text is clearly visible to users by setting the text’s minimum height.

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Great WebPart

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Used in conjuction with the List Rolup you can build great calendar applications inside SharePoint

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Pros have recomended this web part many times for company calendars
Cons it is hard to configure by an inexperienced user.
Version Reviewed 3.1
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4.0
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Reviewed by fmuntean
November 23, 2009
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Good add on, but still lacking

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As a consultant I have offered this solution to many clients wanting to do calendar roll ups. This is easier and chaeper than paying a developer. Plus you get support and it has gone through a few versions allreday.

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Pros Easy install
Use filters in calendars
Use roll ups in calendars
Good price
Fast
Easy to figure out
Cons Looks like an add in and not part of the site
No ability to make alterations to the code
A lot of options for end users - Confusing
Version Reviewed 3.1
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4.0
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Reviewed by pistulka
November 22, 2009
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Bamboo Calendar Plus WebPart a Plus

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Suzanne George

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Pros We have used the Bamboo Webpart for several years and it has helped us create calendar views that are easy to read while providing additional information our projects needed. One of the most used items is the ability to color code calendar entries. This makes more complicated calendars usable by many different groups.
Cons The calendar is a little difficult to show end users to setup the first time. This is likely due to the many options the calendar provides. However, once they learn all the options, they are able to setup calendars on thier own.
Version Reviewed sps 2003
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Reviewed by Suzanne George
November 10, 2009
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Colour Coded Appointments

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Great for making your shared Calendar more useable on SharePoint. The benefit of being able to colour code similar types of appointments makes it a purchase worth making.

Andy Dale
Senior SharePoint Consultant
Officetalk
http://www.office-talk.com

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Pros Easy to make changes, easy to setup.
Cons Colour choice slightly restrictive.
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Reviewed by dalean108
January 05, 2009
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