Thursday, December 4, 2008

Create a New SharePoint Calendar

First, while in the site where you want to create your calendar (and, ultimately, your Meeting Workspace), select the Create option from the Site Actions dropdown menu. Then, on the resulting Create page, select the Calendar hyperlink under the Tracking heading:









After clicking that Calendar hyperlink, you may be surprised to discover that there isn't anything calendar-centric on the resulting New page:









As you can see in the above image, all that's necessary to create your calendar is to give it a Name and (optional) Description, decide whether or not to include it in your Quick Launch Navigation, and determine if you'd like to allow users to add items to the list/calendar by sending email (and, if yes, assigning the calendar an email address here). Once you've sailed through that process, click the Create button and your browser will automatically refresh with the calendar view of your new list.

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