Map Multiple Calendars To One In SharePoint 2013 And Office 365

In this article, we are going to see how to Map Multiple Calendars to one view in SharePoint 2013 & Office 365. We developers often get a requirement as to merge two or more calendars.

Now, we will see how to do it.

Here is a way.

• Let’s create a Calendar.

• Go to the gear icon on the right side of your site and click on ‘Add an app’.

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• Find **calendar **and click on it.

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• Add a Calendar and name it** Calendar1**.

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• Similarly, add a second calendar and name it Calendar 2.

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• Open the first Calendar.

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• You will find your calendar view on the left side of the SharePoint site as per the screen below.

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• Currently it shows one view so click on the option ‘Calendars in View’ to add new calendars.

• You will come to the following Calendar Overlay Settings.

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• Click on New Calendar.

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• You will come up to the page where you need to give details about the other calendar you want to add.

  1. Calendar Name: Give a name to your calendar.

  2. **Type of Calendar: **Choose whether it is a SharePoint or an Exchange Calendar.

  3. Description: Provide a description to your new calendar if you have any.

  4. **Color: **Choose a color which will display your events separated from the other calendar.

  5. Web URL: Here this link will be auto populated if you want to select a calendar from the same web, if not provide the url of the web and click on Resolve.

  6. **List: **Once you resolve the web, it will populate all the calendars here available on the web.

  7. **List View: **Once you select the calendar, it will populate all the views available on the selected calendar.

  8. **Always show: **Choose the option, if you always want to display the other calendar.

  Here you can see all he values, click on Okay.

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• Once you click on Okay, you will see the screen below with the other calendars you have added on the view.

• Click on OK. 

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• You will both the calendars mapped to Calendar 1 and the events on Calendar 1 will display in blue color whereas it will display in green for the events created in the Calendar 2.

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Hence here we saw how to map or merge multiple calendars to a single calendar view. Keep reading and keep learning.