SharePoint 2010: how to display an external list as a calendar?

Question

In SharePoint 2010 BCS, I created an external content type to get a list of appointments from our LoB application. This works, and I see a list of appointments in SharePoint.

The problem is that I only see meetings on the list. I want to display them on a calendar, but that doesn't seem like an option.

I set the Office item type in Appointment, and everything I read seems to imply that I can synchronize this list with the Outlook calendar, but I can not find any option to display the list as a calendar in SharePoint itself.

Has anyone found a way to display an external list on a calendar, or am I stuck writing my own or buying a third-party add-on?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you cannot use the calendar view with an external list. Here is a solution using a custom web part https://web.archive.org/web/20110313155828/http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=60