25 thoughts on “Issues with calendars”

1. I’m afraid I can’t explain Issue 1 yet, but I was able to recreate it with an additional oddity, which may or may not have happened to you (maybe it did, but you didn’t mention it.)

   I noticed that on the month view, Task1 doesn’t show as starting until 11/16. This leaves four days from the end of Task2, and two from the end of Task3. I find it interesting that, if an overlap problem is indeed the cause, Task1 doesn’t show as starting immediately after Task2 ends.

   Very strange. I’ll play around myself, but am interested in a cause.

2. I haven’t seen your issues yet, but I’ve got another issue with Calendar views. I am creating a Calculated field where the result is a Date (I’m calculating 180 days prior to the date entered by the user). The goal is to display this calculated date in a calendar view because the user needs to take action 6 months before the entered date. The problem is that I get an error when I try to use the calculated date in a calendar view. My calculated date acts like a date in all other calculations and views, but it gives a nasty error message when I try to use it in a calendar view. We’ve tested this on multiple SharePoint instances and the error seems to be the same everywhere. Could this be at all related to the same issues you are seeing?

3. Brian: this is the issue I see. It is not related to a number of days but to the week. I assume SharePoint builds the month calendar row by row, so the display is correct if there is no overlap for a given week.

4. Sue: I tried your example and got the same issue. I’ll add it to the list.
   Good to know, thanks 🙂

5. Btw I haven’t figured out the preferred way to report the issues to Microsoft. Any help appreciated!

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7. ISSUE #2
   I can partially explain what’s happening on issue number 2, where calculated date columns display one day earlier for all-day events.

   When you create a new appointment and check “All-Day Event”, the time disappears. However, if you re-open the item after creation, the Start Time displays as 12:00 AM and the End Time as 11:59 PM.

   Create a START column =[Start Time] and an END column =[End Time], and then view the entire item. My calculated columns are both exactly 5 hours earlier than their respective sources, but yours may be different because …

   My time zone is (EST -05:00). Coincidence? Maybe not. I tried out this theory on a test server, where I changed the time zone on both the web application and the server. But the difference was still -5 hours in the calculated fields, even after both an iisreset and a reboot.

   I finally gave up and calculated START as “=[Start Time]+5/24”, which seems to work … so far.

   • I’m new to Sharepoint and ran into the same problem where an All Day Event actually shows the Start Date & Time as the previous day. This is only in the list view. It appears correctly on the calendar view. To correct the list view I used Campbell’s solution above and it worked like a charm! Thanks.

8. Campbell: in my tests, the time difference was not the same in Winter and in Summer, so you may need to take into account the daylight saving time…

   • USE:
     =IF(TEXT([End Time],”hh:mm AM/PM”)=”06:59 PM”,
     TEXT(TRUNC([Start Time]+1,0),”ddd mm/dd”)&” All Day”,
     IF(TEXT([End Time],”hh:mm AM/PM”)=”07:59 PM”,
     TEXT(TRUNC([Start Time]+1,0),”ddd mm/dd”)&” All Day”,
     TEXT([Start Time],”ddd mm/dd hh:mm AM/PM”)
     )
     )
     Change the 6:59 PM & 7:59 PM for your TZ and DST adjustments.
     Create some sample items to get your exact UTC/DST offsets. Stupid but that is SharePoint!
     You can’t add this to the site columns and site ‘event’ content type because the fields are renamed and not available (It crashes) you have to add this to EVERY stupid instance of your calendar.

9. Ouch. You’re right. Thank you Christophe. I don’t relish tinkering in all of the calendars that use those columns twice a year.

   As far as I can tell, SharePoint outputs its default date columns in an ISO format, which includes the time zone. However, the calculated dates are simply returned as mm/dd/yyyy, which SharePoint seems to assume is GMT and unnecessarily adjusts the time zone a second time.

   I’ve seen some pretty complex calculations out there and I guess I’m going to have to dig through them after all.

   I sure hope Microsoft tweaks this in SP2. And of course, that will break all of my custom columns …

10. I just came across this post:
    http://parkesy.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/sharepoint-calendar-missing-events-problem/
    The post itself is old, but the last comments are not. Thanks for sharing if you have more details on this issue.

11. Have you already solved the Problem with the dayLight saving in your date calculation?

    Thanks

12. PANVEGA, could you please elaborate?

13. Ok, Sorry, I think it wa Campell above, who wrote the approach with “=[Start Time]+5/24”. However I still have the problem with the DTS daylight saving. In Germany GMT+1, now however summer time +2 hours. First I wanted to use the calculation field with a IF statment, but it did not work.

    Another issue came with the Calculatoin field Start Time]+5/24]. In my Calendar you can set the value “All Day Long” with you want. However if not enabled and using a exact time for Start and End Event, the hours from the calculatoin field were add as well.
    All Day Long enabled: I set 5:30 for ending, the calculation field sets the value to 10:30.
    So I tried a formula:
    e.g. =IF([All Day Event]=1;[Start Time]+5/24];[Start Time])
    The problem here is that All Day Event could not be choosen from the list and i receive an error message.
    Do you have any idea?
    Thanks

    Thanks

14. I haven’t done anything on this. I use lists of type calendar when I have recurring events to manage, and in this case “Start Time” is meaningless.

15. Hi everybody,

    Can’t we update the “End Time” field value in calendar list? I tried to update that value throuh code but it throws an exception stating that invalid data to update the fields or field may be readonly.

    My scenario is as follows:

    I have two calendar list items and i am merging old items with the new items so end date should be the date of new item end date.

    Is there any way to update the field

    Intekhab

    • Update the end date and start date same time using item.update(); here item is the splistItem.

      Regards,

      Intekhab

16. Hi Christophe,

    I am getting an issue with calendar which is reported in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871145/

    I want know if there is any way to increase this limit of 1000 events in calender month, keeping the recurrence on?

    Regards,
    Santanu

17. Hi Christophe,
    I’ve setup your HTMLcc on a calendar view and it works just fine for the month view. However, when I switch views to a week or a day, it just displays the HTML and not the color. How do I fix that?

    Many thanks again!
    Matt

    • Matt, are you displaying sub-headings in your week and day view? If so, try this:
      find the following line in the code:
      var regexpA = new RegExp(…
      and remove the last $

18. You called it! Fixed the script and it works great! Thanks for your insight…

19. Hi,

    We are using calendar list in sharepoint. We have one issue with date.
    This calendar works fine on root site but on variation sites it shows each date twice in calendar like 21 (21) onstead of just 21.

20. I’m a newcomer to Sharepoint but one of the requests for my group was to set up a calendar for absences with color coding. I am still working to apply Christophe’s web part and scripts, but in the mean time I have been fiddling with the display of all day events. Despite staff in many different time zones, having weekly or monthly entries span two days on the calendar was considered unacceptible.

    I managed in my workflow to kludge it. FIRST I set the workflow variable end date to retain the proper end date, with a fixed time of 11:50 hours. Then I set the workflow variable start time (which was being set back -1 to 12 hours for GMT) ahead 13 hours to get the start date portion right, then to the fixed time of 00:00 for the time portion.

    On updating the record Sharepoint does adjust the start and end times of my record foward for GMT, but does not recalculate the end time from my fixed 11:50 time, thus leaving me still short of 23:59. The times are not useful, but they are also for all day events not used.

21. Thanks for sharing Elena!

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