SharePoint 2010 - Calendars

As part of a talk I am creating and part of my general SP 2010 study I have been looking into the SharePoint 2010 calendar list. The new overlay feature is really nice. It allows you to show many calendars at once (overlayed) so for example a project manager could look at calendars from different project sites and plan common resources without having to look at each calendar individually. This has been available via third party web parts for a long time but now it's available out of the box. Since it has been blogged about in abundance elsewhere I won't reproduce the details here.
One thing I had hoped for was the listview web part representing the calendar would be able to 'connect' using the web part connection technology to allow filtering between web parts. I.E. From the part representing my calendar I would like to be able to select a date and have this passed through the connection to other web parts.
In the browser the connections menu is greyed out within the Web Part menu. In SharePoint designer you get further but then it gives an SPException when you fill in the source and destination of the connection.
Maybe the RTM version will fix this and allow connections (hopefully) or at least remove the exception.
Regardless of this we can see how improvements that each version of SharePoint brings such as the calendar overlay can be used to create some really useful and interesting business solutions.

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