• Calendar Category Colors

    By Bruce Elgort/NotesOSS 2 decades ago

    At the Lotusphere 2005 Meet the Developers session someone asked whether the developers ever considered adding color coding to calendar entries by category. I am happy to report (as I did during the session) that the soon to be released OpenNTF Mail Template V1.5 has this feature in it.



    In the Calendar Preferences http://www.bruceelgort.com/blogs/be.nsf/2/BELT-697VWB/$FILE/calcat.jpg tab a new section was added titled "Category Colors". Here you can define customer color sets the same way you can with your inbox colors. As you can see in the example I set custom colors for my Personal, Hot, and Party categories. Here http://www.bruceelgort.com/blogs/be.nsf/2/BELT-697VVX/$FILE/calcatcolors.jpg you can see the colors being applied to the calendar.



    Your feedback is encouraged.

    • 10:00 AM is a little early for a party . . .

      By Sean Harris 2 decades ago

      but if you're annoucing the release of OpenNTF ME 1.5, then party on dude.



      I think this is a much needed feature, and I was glad to hear you speak up from the back of our row announcing the support of this feature!



      Another Calendar feature that I would like to see is a view icon (phone) for teleconferences. I saw this feature from a Loti that sent out an invite to the Lotus third Thursday telecon.

      • So what fields...

        By Vince Schuurman 2 decades ago

        … would you like on this entry ?

        The same as a meeting but without the resource reservations?

    • That was me... and I have the code!

      By Howard Katz 2 decades ago

      That "somebody" was me. The code I've developed is fairly simple. I've added a tab to the Calendar preferences - see

      http://www.asdi.ca/ASDI_Mail_Template_Preferences-Category_Colors.jpg



      If you are interested in adding this to your template, please let me know how I can contribute.

      • Would love a bit of help ...

        By Ken Hillblom 2 decades ago

        I just got a request for color coded categories. The form changes seem simple enough. If you'd be kind enough to point me in the right direction where to make the code changes I would greatly appreciate the help.



        Thanks,



        Ken

        • Well you're all set then ;-)

          By Vince Schuurman 2 decades ago

          All the changes are in the prefs form.

          Look at the bottom of the form, I added numerous fields there.

        • Thanks Vince ...

          By Ken Hillblom 2 decades ago

          It turns out I had version 1.4 not 1.5 of the mail template. Once I saw the 1.5 template it was clear. I did find using the color catergories a bit of a pain, having to type too much. I ended up going with something close to what Howard did. Thanks for your help !!



          Ken