SharePoint calendar web part by Virto was updated for SharePoint 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. You get many new features for managing Exchange calendars inside SharePoint.
Color-coding Exchange Calendar Categories
Virto Calendar web part allows you to color-code Exchange calendar events according to their categories from Exchange. This feature is available for Virto calendars for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and 2016.
For example, I need to add the category named “Blue categorie” to Virto calendar.
Open “Advanced settings” of Exchange calendar data source, select “Category” field and click “Add new field value and color”.
Then type in the name of required category from Exchange (names must be identical).
Select a color for this category, it may match exactly the color from Exchange.
You can add other categories with custom colors in the same way.
On the screen below you can see the example of event from green category.
Tatiana Sushchenko is the product owner at VirtoSoftware. She started her IT career with the famous ABBYY Lingvo back in 2006 in Moscow. Then she moved to Microsoft performing strongly in various marketing management roles across Visio, SharePoint, Office 365 and Project for almost 10 years. Tatiana is a graduate of the Institute of Business Studies and holds a mini-MBA degree. She also graduated from Microsoft marketing excellence university.