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May 10, 2006
The Beauty of SharePoint 2007 - Improved Calendar Views
A common requirement amongst users of Windows SharePoint Services in v2 was the ability to view information in a calendar type view. This was built into list templates such as the events list and could also be added to other lists by creating a "calendar view".
A slight limitation I would often run into however would be the field(s) that would be displayed in the calendar view were fixed. If you were using an events list, the user could see the event title and location. If you were creating a custom view on another list type, only the title would be displayed. This wasn't something that sent the world crashing to a halt but a slight inconvenience at times.
Well with SharePoint 2007, a list manager can create a calendar view and then select the column that should be displayed as the title and location for the event on each calendar view (day, week, month, etc…). This is great since you can point to all column types whereas in v2, not only were you limited to displaying title or location - both column types were text fields.
The date selector is much nicer as well for calendar views:
For the month calendar views, the ability to view all records for a single day has been improved by adding the ability to "expand all" rather than selecting a more link and changing your current view.
Posted by Amanda.Murphy at May 10, 2006 12:40 PM
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