With the SharePoint Birthdays app you can show current and upcoming birthdays of for example students or employees on your display.
Easily turn a simple SharePoint list into a good looking birthday list in Lumicast. The SharePoint list needs to have at least two columns: a name and a date.
Creating a SharePoint Birthdays app
- Go to ‘Content library > New > App’ and search for the SharePoint Birthdays app;
- Click on the app to start creating a new app. You will see the following screen:
- Enter an app name, this can be anything you can recognize it by later.
- Connect your Sharepoint account and select the correct site and list.
- In the Name and Date field, fill in the exact column names of the list.
- Finish the app by clicking ‘Save’
Data update frequency
Lumicast checks your sharepoint data every minute. If you don’t see a new birthday that you just added, the reason could be that we have not picked it up yet. Please wait at least one minute.
All configuration options
Setting | Explanation | Required |
App name | A recognizable (descriptive) name for you, which will show in your content library. | Yes |
Account | Microsoft account to get the list from. | Yes |
Site | The Sharepoint site that contains the list. | Yes |
List | The Sharepoint list containing the birthday data. | Yes |
Name field | The column name of the field that should be displayed as name. | Yes |
Date field | The column name of the field that should be used for the birthdate. | Yes |
Language | The language of the month names. | Yes |
Days to show in advance | Specified how many days in advance should a birthday be displayed on the display. | Yes |
Color when it’s someone’s birthday | The background color of the row when a birthday is today. | Yes |
Color when it’s not someone’s birthday | The background color of the row when a birthday is not today. | Yes |
Color of the text | The color of the text within the rows. | Yes |
Text to show when it’s someone’s birthday | The text to display in the row when it is someone’s birthday. | Yes |
Text to show when there is no upcoming birthday | If there are no birthdays in the lookahead window, this text is shown. | Yes |
Font | Font family to use. | No |
Background image | Specify a custom image to be displayed behind the birthday rows. | No |
Hide background image | Completely hide the background image. Useful when for example using this app in a page. | No |
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