Business Calendar Panel 2.1.0
We are happy to announce the release of the Business Calendar Panel 2.1.0. This release includes the following updates:
- Added an updated version of the calendar, Big Calendar, a React library-based calendar that allows users to switch between month, week, and day views.
- Added multi-language support into Big Calendar: Spanish, French, German, and simplified Chinese.
- Added the filtering of annotations by type and maximum limit.
- Requires Grafana 9.2+ or Grafana 10.
- Added compatibility with Grafana 10.0.3 and deprecated support for Grafana 8.5.
The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on August 15, 2023.
Big Calendar
Big Calendar is a new version of the calendar panel based on a powerful React library.
It adds a multi-language toolbar that allows you to:
- Switch between month, week, and day views.
- Switch back to the current day (today).
- Display events from the previous and subsequent time ranges.
![Calendar Panel displays Volkov Labs' releases in July 2023.](/img/blog/2023-08-15-calendar-panel-2.1.0/big.png)
Legacy calendar
The legacy calendar is a native implementation of the calendar based on custom components. Unlike Big Calendar, it does not provide a toolbar and has limited support for week and day views.
The legacy calendar allows you to display events from several months and scroll through them.
![Business Calendar Panel displays Grafana plugins updated in July 2023.](/img/blog/2023-08-15-calendar-panel-2.1.0/legacy.png)
Multi-language support
The legacy calendar and Big Calendar support dates in four native Grafana languages: Spanish, French, German, and simplified Chinese. Big Calendar also provides a multi-language toolbar.
![Big Calendar displays Grafana plugins updated in July 2023 .](/img/blog/2023-08-15-calendar-panel-2.1.0/spanish.png)
Annotations
The Business Calendar Panel plugin allows you to display and filter annotations in Grafana.
In the plugin settings, you can do the following:
- Select what to display: both alerts and annotations, alerts only, or annotations only.
- Set the maximum limit of returned annotations.
![Options to select an annotation type and set the limit.](/img/blog/2023-08-15-calendar-panel-2.1.0/annotations.png)
Getting Started
You can install Business Calendar Panel from the Grafana Plugins catalog or using the Grafana command line tool.
For the latter, please use the following command:
grafana-cli plugins install marcusolsson-calendar-panel
YouTube Tutorial
Business Calendar Panel is a Grafana plugin that displays events from various data sources.
Release Notes
- Requires Grafana 9.2 or Grafana 10.
Features / Enhancements in 2.1.0
- Added annotation types and display limits (#121).
- Added compatibility with Grafana 10.0.3 (#122).
- Added language messages for Big Calendar (#123).
Bugfixes in 2.0.1
- Fixed the options regulating the display of annotations (#119).
Features / Enhancements in 2.0.0
- Increased the test coverage for the plugin's functionality (#105).
- Added the Big Calendar component for rendering calendars (#106).
- Updated the ESLint configuration (#106).
- Deprecated support for Grafana 8.5 (#110).
- Added compatibility with Grafana 10.0 (#110).
- Updated the event display mechanism to correctly show events in Big Calendar when their start date equals the end date (#112).
- Added quick links for Big Calendar (#113).
- Updated the back and next buttons for weekly and daily views in the Big Calendar component (#114).
- Updated button styles in the Big Calendar component (#115).
- Updated the calendar resizing in the Big Calendar component (#116).
Feedback
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