Comments on: SharePoint Color Coded Calendar – The PayRoll Schedule

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:51:40 +0000

It looks lile my code didn’t send through my last post.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:24:46 +0000

Hi,

Great post. I got all the way to the end and I have the code appearing, but when I put in Christophe’s code it didn’t make a color box, it only displays the code. I made sure to move the CEWP to the bottom. Can you help?

Here is what it shows on the calendar rather than a nice colored box:
Committee Meeting: HP Meeting

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:32:34 +0000

Not sure why the last piece of code didn’t post there. Should be as follows:

=”DIV style=’border:1px “&Color&” solid; padding:5px; margin:0px; color:”&Color&”; background-color: “&BGColor&”;’>”&ActivityType&”: “&Title&”

Might have been the DIV's Add before and after the DIVs as appropriate.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:29:40 +0000

Great, great post! Thanks Jim Bob, Christophe, and Mark.

I was able to modify the steps to set up a color coded calendar to track personnel activity (vacation, sick leave, FMLA, LWOP). Because there aren’t any common letters in any of those choices I used IF statements in the calculated columns as follows:

ActivityType:

Vacation
Sick Leave
FMLA
LWOP

Color:

=IF(ActivityType=”Vacation”,”#ccffcc”,IF(ActivityType=”Sick Leave”,”#ffcccc”,IF(ActivityType=”FMLA”,”#ffccff”,IF(ActivityType=”LWOP”,”#ffcc99))))

BGColor:

=IF(ActivityType=”Vacation”,”#008000″,IF(ActivityType=”Sick Leave”,”#800000″,IF(ActivityType=”FMLA”,”#800080″,IF(ActivityType=”LWOP”,”#)008800)))

I changed the Display field so that it displays as Title:ActivityType:

=”"&LeaveType&”: “&Title&”"

Added Christophes script and voila I have a color coded Personnel Activity calendar. Something I have been hearing screaming about for quite some time.

Thanks guys, the info is much appreciated!

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:03:16 +0000

They aren’t; they are coming through on this post as smart quotes for some reason, sorry.

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:29:51 +0000

First of all, make sure your quotes are not smart quotes.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:24:08 +0000

Initially I tried this:
=”"&Title&”"
This gave me syntax errors over and over despite moving code here and there.

which didn’t work so I tried just using the formula from Christophe’s site which gave me this:
=” “&Title&”"
still no dice

I copied the code from Christophe’s website for the CEWP and pasted it into Source then placed it below the calendar as directed. Modified the views several ways. Just can’t get it to work.

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:59:34 +0000

Post your formulas here and we’ll try to help you debug.

Blessings,
Jim Bob

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:44:43 +0000

Kris – Try Stump the Panel. Jim Bob is on there everyday and you might convince him to walk you through it. — Mark

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:06:16 +0000

This is driving me bananas, I have followed the screencast, seem to be recreating the columns and code correctly but can’t seem to reproduce this. Not sure what is going on but I am ready to bang my head on the desk. I am sure I have a comma in the wrong place in my expression or some such.