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Manage Events with Multi-Source Connectivity

January 21, 2025
KWIZ Calendar Plus enhances productivity with real-time updates from integrated data sources, ensuring teams stay aligned and focused.

KWIZ Calendar Plus is a powerful tool for managing events and schedules within SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. It integrates seamlessly with multiple data sources, including SharePoint lists, Microsoft Graph API, Exchange Online, and Excel files, consolidating information into a single, dynamic calendar view. With features like real-time updates, customizable views, and conditional formatting, it enhances productivity, simplifies workflows, and supports global teams with time zone flexibility. Ideal for project planning, resource management, and event scheduling, KWIZ Calendar Plus streamlines collaboration and keeps teams aligned.

The Multiple Data Source Integration feature in KWIZ Calendar Plus allows users to seamlessly connect and aggregate information from diverse platforms, including local and remote SharePoint lists, Microsoft Graph API, Exchange Online, Microsoft Planner, SharePoint Search API, and Excel files stored in SharePoint libraries. This powerful capability consolidates data into a single, unified calendar view, eliminating the need to toggle between systems and ensuring real-time updates across all sources. By offering customizable views and filtering options, the feature enables users to organize events effectively. Ideal for organizations managing complex schedules or cross-functional teams, this integration simplifies workflows, enhances collaboration, and provides a centralized solution for streamlined event management.

KWIZ Calendar Plus is licensed on an annual basis, requiring each user in your organization to be covered by an Annual Subscription license. Different levels are available to cater for different numbers of users. See our KWIZ Calendar Plus licensing page for full details.

KWIZ Calendar Plus is also available for purchase as part of the KWIZ Dataview Plus product.

For more information, visit our KWIZ Calendar Plus product page.

Customize Blazor Scheduling Solutions with Ease

December 4, 2024
Telerik UI for Blazor v7.0.0 improves Scheduler customization, allowing tailored layouts, streamlined displays, and user-friendly event views.

Telerik UI for Blazor is a comprehensive UI library that provides over 110 native and customizable Blazor components for building modern and feature-rich web applications. This professional-grade solution offers a complete set of components to satisfy all user interface requirements, saving time and effort in UI design.

The Telerik UI for Blazor v7.0.0 update (part of the 2024 Q4 release) makes customization even easier with a number of enhancements to the Scheduler component. The Agenda View provides a concise, scrollable list of scheduled events. The ToolbarTemplate allows for custom toolbar configurations, while the Resource Grouping Template enables tailored resource-based layouts. Additionally, the option to hide the "All Day" panel creates a more streamlined display. These features enable developers to deliver highly customizable and user-centric scheduling solutions, improving clarity, usability, and adaptability in applications.

To see a full list of what's new in 2024 Q4 (v7.0.0), see our release notes.

Telerik UI for Blazor is licensed per developer and is available as a perpetual license with a one year support subscription, which is available in three tiers: Lite, Priority or Ultimate. See our Telerik UI for Blazor licensing page for full details.

Telerik UI for Blazor is available individually or as part of the following products:

Build a C# .NET Scheduler Management App

November 19, 2024
Find out how the ComponentOne C1Scheduler control by MESCIUS can transform your approach to appointment management.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a comprehensive toolkit for .NET developers, offering a vast collection of pre-built UI controls for desktop (WinForms, WPF, WinUI, UWP), web (ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Blazor), and mobile (.NET MAUI, Xamarin) applications. It extends functionality beyond UI with data visualization tools, data grids, reporting components, and JavaScript controls through Wijmo Enterprise. This all-in-one solution streamlines development by providing pre-designed elements and functionalities, allowing developers to focus on core application logic and deliver feature-rich applications faster.

MESCIUS has introduced the ComponentOne C1Scheduler control, designed to enhance appointment management within .NET desktop applications. This powerful tool offers a fully functional, Outlook-style schedule, enabling users to add, edit, group, and manage appointments seamlessly.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Associate Software Engineer Nitin Sharma demonstrates how to create a Doctors Scheduler Windows app using the C1Scheduler control. This sample application is specifically tailored to meet the needs of healthcare providers, but can easily be adapted to cover a wide range of scheduling scenarios. Steps include:

  • Set up the WinForms Project
  • Create the Scheduler and Calendar UI
  • Create C# Model Classes for Appointment and Doctor
  • Data Bind and Group the Scheduler

Read the complete blog to get started building Windows applications with powerful scheduling functionality.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis and includes a 12 month subscription. Priority Support is also available. See our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise product page.

Efficiently Plan Appointments with Calendar Views

October 22, 2024
Optimize time management with .NET controls, providing seamless day, week, month, and year views for enhanced clarity and control.

A calendar view in a scheduling component provides users with versatile tools for managing time across various scales. With options like Day, Week, Month, Agenda, and Year views, users can easily switch between detailed daily scheduling and long-term planning. These views offer tailored insights to meet immediate priorities, track events, and plan strategically, making them ideal for professionals, teams, and organizations needing both precision and big-picture control. The flexibility of these views helps optimize productivity, ensuring tasks are completed on time while aligning with broader goals.

Several .NET products offer scheduling components with calendar view support including:

  • ComponentOne Scheduler for WinForms (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms by MESCIUS) lets you create dynamic, customizable scheduling calendar views with drag-and-drop functionality, supporting multiple time zones.
  • Syncfusion WinForms Scheduler (part of Syncfusion Essential Enterprise) enables you to build feature-rich scheduling applications with interactive calendar views, offering real-time updates and resource management.
  • Solutions Schedule for .NET by DBI Technologies facilitates the creation of powerful timeline and calendar views, optimizing resource allocation, scheduling, and real-time data visualization.
  • Infragistics Windows Forms Schedule (part of Infragistics Professional) allows you to develop responsive calendar views for scheduling applications, with customizable layouts and robust event management features.

Explore our range of .NET calendar and scheduling components.

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Coordinate Time Zones with JavaScript Scheduling

October 15, 2024
Effortlessly align events across time zones with automatic conversions, real-time updates, and DST adjustments for flawless scheduling.

Time zone support in a scheduling component enables users to create, view, and manage events across different regions without manual time conversion. It automatically adjusts appointments based on the user’s local time zone and accounts for daylight saving time (DST) changes, ensuring accurate scheduling. This feature is particularly beneficial for global teams, remote workers, and businesses coordinating across multiple time zones. For example, an international company can schedule a meeting for participants in New York, London, and Tokyo, and each attendee will see the event in their local time. Time zone support eliminates confusion, reduces scheduling errors, and improves efficiency in cross-border collaboration.

Several JavaScript products offer scheduling components with time zone support including:

  • Essential Studio for JavaScript Scheduler (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) lets you manage events with time zone support and customizable views.
  • DevExtreme React Scheduler by DevExpress allows you to create and manage appointments with drag-and-drop, time zone support, and real-time updates.
  • jQWidgets Scheduler (part of jQWidgets) facilitates seamless scheduling with intuitive drag-and-drop, time zone adjustments, and responsive calendar views for any device.

Explore our range of JavaScript scheduling components.

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