A Calendar dashboard widget displays a list of events based on a query for a specific time period. The following image shows an example of a Calendar widget that has been configured for a dashboard. At any point in time, the events displayed on the calendar widget are for a particular day.
If you select , the widget will expand into a larger view, as seen in the following image. To modify the display, you can select the Month, Week, or Day button.
The Edit Widget window for a Calendar widget provides options that are used to configure the content that is displayed on a Calendar widget. The Edit Widget window contains the following fields:
Name: Specifies the label for the widget. You can select
to specify localized values for the widget label.
Path: Specifies the Catalog location of the query whose results are displayed on the widget. You can select
to select a query from the Catalog.
Event Mappingssection: Specifies how the columns in the specified query correspond to the values required by the Calendar widget. This section contains the following fields, each of which contain a list of the fields that are defined in the query:
Title Column: The query column whose value will be displayed as the title of the calendar event. If the query column is defined as a hyperlink, then, in the Calendar widget, you can select the event to navigate to the defined location.
Start Date Column: The query column whose value will be displayed as the start date of the calendar event.
End Date Column: The query column whose value will be displayed as the end date and time of the calendar event. If there is no value for end date, then the event end time will be set to 15 minutes.
Category Column: The query column whose value will be displayed as the event category for the calendar event. You can use the values in this column to filter the calendar events on the Calendar page.
Category Color Column: The query column whose value will be displayed as the color for the calendar event. Each category has a predefined color. If no color is specified in the query, then the default colors will be displayed.
