Christophe Humbert is refining the solutions he will provide in next week’s “Killer Calendars in SharePoint”. The screencast below is the first in a series of screencasts to show you the solutions implemented in the workshop.

A challenge with SharePoint for site managers, site administrators, or site owners is understanding their own role, it’s responsibilities, and what expectations come with being a ‘site owner, manager, or administrator’.

I was working on a mileage reimbursement project that required a user to associate travel mileage with a specific date. To make things easy for the user, I wanted to use a Calendar list so they could easily choose a travel date. That would also give me built-in date validation and makes things easier all around.

One of the things we cover in the live online Create a SharePoint Master Calendar workshop is how to reclaim the page space that a calendar sits on… hide the Quick Launch bar, title space and breadcrumbs… everything. Here a quick screencast on how we do it.

When we do the live online Create a Master Calendar Workshop, we do an extensive analysis of Content Types, discussing how to use them to help manage and segment information. The screencast below is a quick, four minute overview of how you might use Content Types to manage information about Regional Events in your company.

I had already found the post http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1537 then created a new page and added the task list as a web part then added the content editor web part including the code for the pie chart. I had previously downloaded the JQuery file from the links and have added that to my top-level site collection that all subsequent sites have access to and can reference.v

A SharePoint Master Calendar is created with multiple content types for filtering specific types of events. When that type of event is needed within another site, LyteBox is used to display those events as a stand-alone calendar. This solution can be used to push information to locations outside the original site and site collection, if needed.

In my previous articles on color-coded calendars, the colors have been calculated based on a Choice field. But what if you need more functionality to, say, require approval for certain calendar entries like Personal Vacation.

On our Stump the Panel forum, bmix offered this problem:
We’re trying to figure out if there’s any way to show a total of how many people are scheduled for a particular hour of the day.
Well, after refining the problem statement, I put my owsapi to good use. The code below can be placed into [...]

One of the problems with a busy calendar in SharePoint is that the wrapper around the calendar takes up so much space. In this quick screencast, I’ll show you how to reclaim, not only the Quick Launch space, but the heading and title space, too.