Text contrast, location, and select views in Business Calendar 2.2.0
We are happy to announce the release of the Business Calendar panel 2.2.0. This release includes the following updates.
Only for the Big Calendar.
- New option parameter: event location.
- Text color auto adjustment to ensure a readable contrast with the background.
- New ability to select views: day, week, work week, and month.
For the Legacy and Big Calendar.
- Added support for dashboard timezone in Start and End time.
- Added compatibility with Grafana 10.1.4.
The plugin was updated in the Grafana Plugins catalog on October 10, 2023.
2 million downloads
The Business Calendar panel inevitably targets the 2 million downloads mark towards the end of this year! Thank you for your trust and support.
Event Location
In the Event category, a new Location parameter is available for Big Calendar type only.
It is displayed in two places. First is following the Text, separated by a colon character(:). The second is in the Event Details, a popup window appearing after you click on the event in the calendar panel.
Contrast Text
This feature ensures that a text color always contrasts well with the background color. It is available for Big Calendar type only.
Work Week and select views
In the Calendar category, for the Views parameter, we added a new option work week. The setting is similar to a week view, but instead of seven days, it displays 5 days and hides Saturdays and Sundays.
In addition, now you can configure which views out of four (day, week, month, work week) will be available for an end-user.
The feature is available for Big Calendar type only.
Dashboard time zones
Starting from this release, the Business Calendar panel supports dashboard time zones. Previously, it synched with the Browser time zone.
Getting Started
You can install the Business Calendar panel plugin from the Grafana Plugins catalog or use the Grafana command line tool.
For the latter, please use the following command:
grafana cli plugins install marcusolsson-calendar-panel
Tutorial
This video is a detailed review of all configurable options. To ensure you can follow, Daria starts with fetching publicly available Grafana plugin catalog data and then demonstrates how the Business Calendar plugin options change the panel appearance and behavior.
We have many other tutorials that you can find helpful. You can review all related to this plugin tutorials here.
Release Notes
Features / Enhancements
- Added Event Location for Big Calendar (#127)
- Added contrast text color for events (#129)
- Added compatibility with Grafana 10.1.4 (#132)
- Updated with Plugin Tools 2.0.2 (#132)
- Updated to use Grafana Access Policy to sign plugin (#132)
- Added support for dashboard timezone in Start and End time (#128)
- Added ability to select views: day, week, work week and month (#133)
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