Color Coding SharePoint Calendar Items

Question

Hello,

I have the exact same issue from this prior MSFT Community thread:

Color Coding Calendar - Microsoft Community

The resolution in this thread does not solve my problem, however. If I follow the instructions from the previous thread solution, I am left with every event having every color:

Does anyone know why MSFT makes this so challenging? To accomplish the above I spent several hours researching/watching videos, and had to set up a dozen views for reasons I don't understand. I am not sure what a view is, and why I have to create multiple ones to get different colors to work. Why can't we just create categories and color code them as in Outlook?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Figured it out. The issue was the primary calendar was set to always display.

Once I turned this off, everything worked as desired.

Answer 2

Found this which helped me separate the events:

However I'm still seeing multiple versions of each calendar event. How can we limit this to just one instance per color/event?

Each of the below should have one item/band/instance:

Answer 3

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