Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars
Overview

If you've spent anytime at all working with SharePoint calendars and its default views, you know its limitations. In this series of EUSP Live Online Workshops, we'll do a deep dive, showing you how to not just enhance the views, but create full solutions from existing calendars.

• May 18, 2010 - Create a SharePoint Master Calendar Solution
• May 19, 2010 - Add Color Coding and Tool Tips to Your SharePoint Calendars
• May 20, 2010 - SharePoint Calendar Resizing and Enhanced Views

This workshop series is aimed at Power Users and Site Administrators who are responsible for managing calendars on their SharePoint site. The solutions are a good alternative to third party, SharePoint calendars web parts.

Each workshop session is fully hands-on, including your own SharePoint sandbox for implementing the solutions, all of the resources and materials needed to implement the solutions, and access to an on-demand recording of the entire session when you need to review.

Purchasing the entire series of three workshops saves you $58.00 and guarantees you a seat in each of the sessions. All workshops are delivered live, online through your computer where you will be able to see the presenters desktop as well as hear the session over your computer speakers or headphones.

Detailed descriptions of each of the workshops are shown below. We look forward to seeing you at the next set of EUSP Live Online Workshops.

Mark Miller
Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com

Christophe Humbert
Founder
PathToSharePoint.com

Create a SharePoint Master Calendar Solution
May 18, 2010 - 1:00pm EST

 This workshop is a step-by-step creation of a Master Calendar solution in SharePoint. It includes the creation of content types, applying the content types to generate custom views in a master calendar and then exposing those views in team subsites.

All web parts, javascripts and documentation will be provided. Each participant will be given a SharePoint site in which to practice setting up the Master Calendar, including subsites for testing its functionality.

If you need a master calendar solution without dropping the 'big bucks' for a third party web part, this workshop is definitely for you. Seating is extremely limited. Book your seat today.

Testimonials from previous participants of Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint

"Our Superintendent wanted a calendar that would enable employees to post certain events on their subsite calendars which would appear on the home page calendar. We implemented [Mark's] solution, and are very happy with our new master calendar." [Ted]

"My first workshop and it was well worth it. I was hesitant to participate due to my lack of Developer or coding skill but everything was clear, easy to understand and follow." [Linda]

"I have attended many other sharepoint workshops/webinars and by far this was the best. I think what sealed the deal for me was the hands on interaction and being able to walk step by step thru the process on my own site." [Dave]

Who is this for?

This workshop is aimed at Site Administrators and Power Users looking for techniques to add additional functionality to their SharePoint pages without having access to the SharePoint server. All solutions can be implemented with Site Manager level permissions in the SharePoint 2003 and 2007 environments.

This is the first workshop in a three part series, Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars. You do not have to take the other workshops in order to take this one... they are all stand-alone solutions.

Add Color Coding and Tool Tips to Your SharePoint Calendars
May 19, 2010 - 1:00pm EST

How can you help team members quickly identify key events on overcrowded calendars? Thanks to these two powerful customizations: color coding and tooltips, the solution will be at your fingertips.

Workshop Overview

In the first part of the workshop, we'll add color coding to a calendar, based on various rules:

• Event type (meeting, holiday, training, etc.)
• Priority (high/medium/low)
• % complete (color range from green to red)

 In the second hour, we'll see how to provide context information via a tooltip, allowing a user to view the details of an event through a mouseover without having to leave the page. 

Who is this for?

This workshop is aimed at site administrators and power users who need calendar solutions in their sites and site collections. 

This is the second workshop in a three part series, Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars. You do not have to take the other workshops in order to take this one... they are all stand-alone solutions.

SharePoint Calendar Resizing and Enhanced Views
May 20, 2010 - 1:00pm EST

When it comes to calendar views, End Users are often frustrated with SharePoint's limited customization options. In this workshop, participants will learn that with little effort calendar views can be tweaked to their liking.

Workshop Overview

In this workshop you will:

• Resize a month view
• Switch from week view to month view in a snap
• Display weekdays only
• Hide start time for intraday events
• Display all events
• Display a calendar from another site or site collection

 You will receive a SharePoint sandbox to test the solutions and all of the resources necessary to use the solutions within your own production environment.

Who is this for?

This workshop is aimed at site administrators and power users who need to manage and display enhanced calendars in their SharePoint site.

This is the third workshop in a three part series on using Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars. You do not have to take the other workshops in order to take this one... they are all stand-alone solutions.

About the Presenters
Mark Miller and Christophe Humbert

Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars EUSP Live Online Workshop Series is hosted by Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com and Christophe Humbert, Founder of Path to SharePoint. 

Mark has over a decade's worth of experience in delivering online presentations. He has created hundreds of screencasts for End User usage of SharePoint. During presentations, Mark faciliates discussion on the context of using his projects so that participants walk away with a functioning solution that can be implemented immediately in their SharePoint sites.

Christophe Humbert is known internationally for his solutions using the Calculated Column to create complex solutions to display information graphically within a SharePoint environment. His other solutions include the Easy Tabs Interface and Color Coded Calendars. Christophe is based in Shanghai.

Pricing Note
Series vs Individual Pricing

Full series tickets are available for 'Knockout Solutions for SharePoint Calendars'. The series ticket reserves a seat in each of the three sessions, offering a total discount of $58.00 for the series.

The EUSP Live Online Workshop Guarantee
Our Promise to You

I realize it is hard to purchase a workshop online without knowing me or having experience with how live online training works, so here's my guarantee:

If, after taking the workshop, you decide the solution isn't what you are looking for, I will personally refund your entire registration fee and you get to keep all the resources from the project.

If you're not happy, I'm not happy. I want you to be completely satisified with the workshops and the resources. My main form of marketing is word of mouth, with workshop participants as my evangelists. I want you as one of those evangelists, and I'll do what's necessary to make things right.

I  appreciate your trust and support and look forward to seeing you at the sessions.

Mark Miller
Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com