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Customized Color Code Calendars in SharePoint 2013

Hello everyone, today we will discuss about SharePoint Calendar.

In SharePoint 2013, You can use a calendar to store team events, including meetings, social events, Work hours, Business, Holiday, Get-together and all-day events. You can also track team activity task according event.

SharePoint calendar is much flexible to customize it also make colorized events.

Follow the steps to create color coded calendar events  in SharePoint 2013.

  1. Create calendar list.
    • Navigate to Site Contents =>Add an App => click to add a new Calendar App/List.
    • Give proper name to calendar and click on create button. A newly created calendar is added in site content.
  2. Create views filtered by category column. 
    • For colorized events we need to configure views filtered by category column. In the “Calendar” tab of the ribbon, click on the link that says “Create view.”

    • Apply filter on category column based on meeting.

    • Repeat above step to create other view based on category column values like Work hours, Business, Holiday, Get-together etc.
  3. Create calendar overlay.
    • In the “calendar” tab of the ribbon, click on the link that says “Calendar overlay” or “calendars in view” link present just below the calendar.

    • Click on “new calendar” link. Give calendar name according to calendar view. In web URL field paste calendar url link and click on resolve button after that select color, list and list view and check always show checkbox.

    • Repeat above step to other view also. Now all color code view shown below the calendar.
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