How To: Create SharePoint Rolling Calendar View

SharePoint has issues with using keywords "today" and "my". Due to this issue, a few workarounds have to be done to achieve the "Today" functionality. See steps below to create a "rolling" calendar view that shows calendar entries for X number of months out.

FYI, MS has on their site a list of some advanced filter options that I would recommend if your looking to do filtering, check it out, it helped me a lot http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011609471033.aspx

1. Go to your Calendar list and create a column named "Today" and select "single line of text" and do not add it to the default view. This column is merely a placeholder column to achieve "Today" functionality that we can use to filter views
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2. Create a new column named "RollingDateFilter", make it a "calculated column"
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   3. Set the calculated formula to "=AND(MONTH([Start Time])>=MONTH(Today),MONTH([Start Time])<=MONTH(Today)+2)"
      1. This formula will be used to filter our list
      2. If you want to see more months out, change 2 in the formula above to the # of months you want to see.
   4. Be sure to set the data type returned to "Yes/No"
   5. Be sure to uncheck "add to default view"
   6. IF you need to change the formula later, you will first have to recreate the "Today" column in step 1, modify the formula, save the formula, then delete the "Today" column.
3. Delete the "Today" column
   1. This is needed for the "Today" value to be properly parsed in the above formula
   2. IF the "Today" column is not deleted, the formula using "Today" WILL NOT PROCESS CORRECTLY
4. Create a new View and base it off the "All Events" view
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   3. Select the columns you want to show, just accept the defaults
   4. Scroll down to the Filter section
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   6. Set the filter to "RollingDateFilter" and set "is equal to" and set "Yes"
   7. Save the view
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   9. You should now have a view that only shows 2 months out.
5. Go to the homepage that has your un-filtered calendar view

    

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   2. Edit the webpart
   3. Switch the view to "2MonthRolling" and save the changes
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