Remove "+Add" from Calendar View Web Part

Question

I have a Calendar View web part that I've placed in a SharePoint page. Right now it looks like this:

I want to prevent the user from editing the list from here--I have an app that will take care of editing. To accomplish this I want to hide/remove the "+Add" button.

Any idea how to hide/remove it?

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I see this question seems similar, but when I tried that solution I still see the "+Add" button. Perhaps I did something wrong? Or do I continue to see the buttons because I have elevated permissions on the SharePoint site?

Answer 1

Just hiding/removing +Add button, does not prevent the user from creating calendar Events using Calendar View, since the Events could be created by clicking inside calendar area.

So, if you are interested not only in hiding/removing +Add button you could consider the following approach.

How to disable the calendar events

Example 1

ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(function(){

   //Disable calendar events
   $('.ms-acal-rootdiv td').on("mousedown mouseup dblclick mousemove", false);

}, 'SP.UI.ApplicationPages.Calendar.js');

Example 2

$("body").on("mousedown mouseup dblclick mousemove", ".ms-acal-rootdiv td", false);

Usage

• Add Content Editor on Calendar page
• Insert the provided JavaScript code:

Answer 2

I don't know of a configuration setting that will turn off the Add button in the Calendar but you can hide it by placing a Content Editor web part on the page and adding the following CSS to the Content Editor. Be sure to click the Edit Source button in the ribbon and paste it in the HTML Source.

<style type="text/css">
    .ms-acal-rootdiv A[title="Add"]{ display:none; }
</style>

Answer 3

You can use this code :

<script type='text/javascript'> 
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(MyCalendarHook, 'SP.UI.ApplicationPages.Calendar.js');
function MyCalendarHook() {                     
    var calendarCreate = SP.UI.ApplicationPages.CalendarContainerFactory.create;
    SP.UI.ApplicationPages.CalendarContainerFactory.create = function (elem, cctx, viewType, date, startupData) {
        cctx.canUserCreateItem = false;
        calendarCreate(elem, cctx, viewType, date, startupData);
    }
}
</script>

Answer 4

Easier way can be set user permisions to this calendar, to "View items" only, then add button will disapear for users