Using SharePoint Calendar Widgets

You can add a SharePoint Calendar widget to a place (group, space, or project) that has been socialized with a SharePoint site. Only place administrators have the ability to customize and add widgets to their places. For more on socializing places see Configuring Jive Socialization for a Site.

Adding a SharePoint Widget

To add the SharePoint widget to a place:

Navigate to the group, space, or site.
Click Manage > Overview page .
When the widget layout canvas opens, select Other, and then select the SharePoint widget.
Drag the Drag to Add button to where the widget should show up.
Click Publish Layout when you're done.

Configuring the Calendar Widget

To configure the SharePoint Calendar widget, click the down-arrow in the top right corner to open the edit view as seen in the following image.

The configuration for the SharePoint Calendar widget requires the following information to find and surface a SharePoint calendar.

Custom Title (Optional) - Type the value to display above the SharePoint Calendar widget.
Site Name: Keep this blank for a calendar in the site associated directly with this Jive place. Enter the name of a sub-site if the calendar is located in a sub-site to the associated SharePoint site.
Name of Calendar: Type the name of the Calendar List or Custom List (if it uses a calendar view) exactly as used in SharePoint for the socialized site. For example, "Calendar."
Note: The Name of Calendar field is case sensitive. Please ensure the value you provide matches the one used in SharePoint.
View Name: Keep this blank unless you want to filter the contents of the calendar to contain a subset of the calendar entries in which case you would enter the name of the SharePoint view configured on the calendar that filters the contents.

Viewing the Calendar Widget

The following images shows the SharePoint calendar in a wide column view. The SharePoint Calendar widget is designed to present a specific SharePoint calendar in Jive. The SharePoint Calendar widget can display a month view, week view, or day view. It will also show individual event title and timeframe, along with a link back to the physical appointment/calendar item in SharePoint.

The following images shows the SharePoint calendar in a wide column view. The SharePoint Calendar widget will dynamically change to a day view to conserve space on the screen. This happens automatically based on available screen space for the current Jive page layout and does not require user configuration.