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Serge de Klerk
Brass Contributor
Aug 08, 2016
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SharePoint calendar overlay limit

Hello all,

 

I'm trying to build a colour-coded calendar in SharePoint Online by using a calendar overlay. This calendar will be used to book resources and the colours will make it very user-friendly. I've done this before and it works great, but in this instance I've ran into the issue that the calendar overlay has a 10 calendar limitation...and I need to overlay 13 resources. As far as I can tell, there is no way around the 10 calendar overlay limit, so I'm kind of stuck at the moment.

 

Does anyone know if there's a way to increase the limit or would you have another idea how to make this work? Any help is appreciated!

 

Cheers,

Serge de Klerk

SharePoint Online
  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Aug 09, 2016

    Hi Serge,

     

    have you looked at Microsoft Bookings? maybe it is a better solution for your question.

    And what about Outlook web? where you can view the calanders.

    Or if you need to plan resources use Planner.

     

    hope it helps a bit.

     

    Kr,

     

    Paul

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  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Aug 09, 2016

    Hi Serge,

     

    have you looked at Microsoft Bookings? maybe it is a better solution for your question.

    And what about Outlook web? where you can view the calanders.

    Or if you need to plan resources use Planner.

     

    hope it helps a bit.

     

    Kr,

     

    Paul

    • Serge de Klerk's avatar
      Serge de Klerk
      Brass Contributor
      Aug 09, 2016

      Hi Paul,

       

      Thanks for your reply! I thought about MS Bookings as well and it will probably do what I need it to do, but unfortunately it's not rolled out yet for E3 customers. Planner would be a bit too much in this situation.

       

      The situation is: we have a new customer, small company, with 13 technicians that go out to jobs. The planning lady at the office still uses a paper calendar on which she writes job for each technician and then transfers this to a job sheet that the tech takes with him...all manual work.

      I've previously implemented a color-coded calendar like this which works great for up-to-10 resources

      This would have been a great solution for them, but unfortunately I've hit the limitation with the overlay.

      I might consider waiting for MS Bookings to be rolled out, instead of trying to create a half-decent workaround for this problem.

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