How to customise site calendars depending on the event category in SP2010?

Question

I have added to the Calendar in the Team site several categories for the events;

1. Meeting
2. Holiday
3. Team Event
4. Business Travel

In order to make this as visual as the Outlook calendar I would like the headers of the event to be shown in different colours depending on the category selected, for example;

1. Meeting - Blue
2. Holiday - Red
3. Team Event - Orange
4. Business Travel - Green.

UPDATE: I'm experiencing some trouble with the colour render; attaching the link to the content editor web part

Answer 1

What version of SharePoint are you using?

In SP 2010, you can use overlays: create a filtered view for each of your categories, then add them as overlays to a calendar view.

My color coding soolution works too, and applies to both SP 2007 and SP 2010. For the most up-to-date tutorial follow this link:

http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2010/04/06/tutorial-add-color-coding-to-your-sharepoint-2007-calendar-in-15-minutes/

Answer 2

I didn't find a way to accomplish this using some simple OOTB setting. However, I found interesting solution on EndUserSharePoint.com:

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2009/04/17/sharepoint-color-coded-calendar-the-payroll-schedule/

The idea is to use calculated columns to display HTML:

http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/01/using-calculated-columns-to-write-html/

Caution! I don't think that described solution is enough secure. Imagine, what if you will place some html in Title of an event?... But anyway, it can be a good starting point for creating more secured solution, based on same idea.

Hope, this helps!