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FusePoint Calendar Documentation

Type: webpart

Overview

The Fusepoint Calendar webpart provides a dynamic and visually appealing way to display events from a SharePoint calendar list. It integrates with SharePoint's classic calendar list and enhances functionality with modern web technologies. This webpart is ideal for organizations looking to have a centralized, customizable, and interactive calendar view on their SharePoint sites.

Features

• Calendar Integration: Connects seamlessly with a classic SharePoint calendar list to display events.

• Category-Based Filtering: Users can filter events by categories, which are pulled directly from the 'category' field in the SharePoint calendar list. An additional "All" category is automatically included to allow users to view all events.

• Customizable Categories: Each category can be customized with a unique color through a color picker option in the webpart properties, enhancing the visual distinction between different types of events.

• Modern Web Technologies: Utilizes FullCalendar, a popular calendar interaction library, to provide a rich and responsive user interface. This choice leverages past successful implementations within the SharePoint framework, ensuring a robust and familiar user experience.

• Style Customization: An option to input custom CSS allows further personalization of the calendar’s look and feel, providing flexibility to match corporate branding or personal preferences.

• Event Details: Features a simple popup that provides more details about an event, offering users quick access to essential information without cluttering the main calendar view.

• Recurrent Events: Includes support for displaying recurrent events, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all calendar entries.

• Performance Considerations: Optimized to handle large amounts of data and recurrent events, ensuring reliability and speed for enterprise-level usage.

This webpart is particularly useful for organizations that require a detailed and interactive calendar on their SharePoint site, providing a centralized view of all scheduled events with considerable scope for customization.

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