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How to set MOSS calendars webparts to display "today"? in SharePoint Server Design and Customization

12/20/2007 4:20 PM PST

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Hi everybody!

I'm kind of a MOSS 2007 newbie and I'm having trouble finding the answer for
a problem.

Basically, I have a need to display a MOSS calendar as a webpart that shows
only "today" events on a site.

That's because my company desires to have a general calendar list with all
employees birthdays, but also wants to have a calendar webpart that display
only today's events as a summary list. Something like:

"Today's Birthdays":
- employee A
- employee C

I already went around the calendar list views and I even created columns
with calculated fields, but I'm not having any luck finding the answer to
this problem. Does anyone have any suggestion that allow me to do that?

Regards

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Greg

12/20/2007 11:22 PM PST

Hi Filipe -

Since the Calendar is just a list couldn't you use the content query webpart
?

Greg Frick

"Filipe Rocha" <Filipe Rocha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0A36D1E5-CA6F-497A-B38D-008F8BAB0AFD@microsoft.com...
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm kind of a MOSS 2007 newbie and I'm having trouble finding the answer
> for
> a problem.
>
> Basically, I have a need to display a MOSS calendar as a webpart that
> shows
> only "today" events on a site.
>
> That's because my company desires to have a general calendar list with all
> employees birthdays, but also wants to have a calendar webpart that
> display
> only today's events as a summary list. Something like:
>
> "Today's Birthdays":
> - employee A
> - employee C
>
> I already went around the calendar list views and I even created columns
> with calculated fields, but I'm not having any luck finding the answer to
> this problem. Does anyone have any suggestion that allow me to do that?
>
> Regards

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nimrod.geva@gmail.com

12/21/2007 8:40 AM PST

Answer

Hi Filipe
If you manage all events in one calendar list, then all you have to do
is simply to create a view for that list ("Today's events"). You
should define a filter for this view to show only events that their
"Due date" field equals [Today] ([Today] is a reserved word in
SharePoint).
This will make the view display only the event records that match this
criteria.

If you need to display events from several calendar lists you should
use the Content Query web part (exists only in MOSS 2007 and not in
WSS); This web part enables you to aggregate data from several lists
at a time, according to some filter rules.

Hope it helps
Nimrod Geva
www.kwizcom.com

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Filipe Rocha

12/21/2007 12:31 PM PST

Working fine now. Thanks for your help. I had already went around the filter
but surprisingly I wasn't able to make it work... Probably some small step I
skipped....

"nimrod.geva@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi Filipe
> If you manage all events in one calendar list, then all you have to do
> is simply to create a view for that list ("Today's events"). You
> should define a filter for this view to show only events that their
> "Due date" field equals [Today] ([Today] is a reserved word in
> SharePoint).
> This will make the view display only the event records that match this
> criteria.
>
> If you need to display events from several calendar lists you should
> use the Content Query web part (exists only in MOSS 2007 and not in
> WSS); This web part enables you to aggregate data from several lists
> at a time, according to some filter rules.
>
>
> Hope it helps
> Nimrod Geva
> www.kwizcom.com
>

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KVollero

5/15/2008 10:10 AM PST

Hi All,

I must be missing something - I want to create a view which only displays
events scheduled for today's date. So I set up a new view, open the Filter
dialog, but there is no Date field in the Columns drop-down list that I can
select and set equal to [Today]. 'Start Time', for instance, does not appear
in the Column list.

Even the directions on the page "To filter on a column based on the current
date or the current user of the site, type [Today] or [Me] as the column
value." make no sense. Into exactly which field/box do you input the [Today]?
Which column gets that value?

I know this has to be simple, what am I missing?

Thanks,
Keith

"nimrod.geva@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi Filipe
> If you manage all events in one calendar list, then all you have to do
> is simply to create a view for that list ("Today's events"). You
> should define a filter for this view to show only events that their
> "Due date" field equals [Today] ([Today] is a reserved word in
> SharePoint).
> This will make the view display only the event records that match this
> criteria.
>
> If you need to display events from several calendar lists you should
> use the Content Query web part (exists only in MOSS 2007 and not in
> WSS); This web part enables you to aggregate data from several lists
> at a time, according to some filter rules.
>
>
> Hope it helps
> Nimrod Geva
> www.kwizcom.com
>

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