Question

Recently I am busy doing a project about calendar. The teacher told me that a user may have many calendars. So I want to use pivot to show them.

However, as the user can choose how many and which calendar to show in the app, I can not get exactly the number and just depend on the program to remember.

I want to ask how to achieve the task. And I also want to know if there are too many calendars to show, how to make the pivot fast. Maybe a pivot item has an limitation. Could anyone help me?

Thanks.

Answer 1

From a design perspective and given the unknown number of calendars, I don’t think a Pivot is what you should use. If you take a look at the design guidelines, you’ll note:

Apps should minimize the number of pivot pages (four pages or fewer).
Users can become lost if they jump from pivot page to pivot page. Use
Pivot controls sparingly and limit the use of pivot pages to scenarios
where it’s appropriate for the experience.

and

The Pivot control should be used only to display items or data of
similar type (for example, filtered views of the same data).

The latter doesn’t preclude what you are doing, but most of the apps that I’ve seen use pivots to provide alternate views of the same data versus the same view of different data (as you’d be doing).

I think a simple list of the available calendars that navigates to a second page for the calendar (with binding to your specific calendar’s view model) would be easier and more intuitive.