Creating Business Applications with Office 365: Techniques in SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI, and More

© Jeffrey M. Rhodes 2019

J. M. RhodesCreating Business Applications with Office 365https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_6

6. Creating a Color Calendar

Jeffrey M. Rhodes¹ 

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

Keeping with our theme of improving out interface with JavaScript and jQuery, this example demonstrates how to create a color-coded calendar.¹ In this implementation, we take a single column,² display it with pipes (|||), and then use JavaScript/jQuery to color-code it (and remove the pipes).³

In our example, we will create an Event Location column. Each location will have its own color. Once we create a new calendar or identify an existing calendar, we create a new Choice column described in footnote 2. I’ve named it Event Location⁴ in Figure 30. Notice ...