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Maurits Knoppert's avatar
Maurits Knoppert
Iron Contributor
Apr 07, 2017

Searching for appointments in a shared calendar

At our school we have 1 shared calendar for appointments that are important for everyone.

All my colleagues have read or edit rights on that callendar.

 

When they want to search for a prticular appointment there are no results in the search pane form the shared calendar.

But when you enter the search keyword only the appointments with the search key word are vissible in the calendar the other appointments are filtered out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this expected behaviour? Why can't I see the results in the search pane, but are they filtered in my agenda. This works for a part. After a search you have to click through the months to find the appointment you are looking for.

  • bwcarr84's avatar
    bwcarr84
    Copper Contributor

    I am experiencing the same issue within my organization... Microsoft calendar bites.

    If anyone has a solution or a fix, I am all ears. TIA

  • Yeah, I have the same experience. When you type in the search box, it does perform a "filter" operation on the current view, not an actual search. If you have selected multiple calendars, it will "filter" across them all.

     

    If you press the search button after typing the keyword however, an actual search is perfomed, and as far as I can tell only results from your calendar are returned. At least in my tests, no results from shared calendars were included. I will try to get more info on this...

      • DMHDetroit's avatar
        DMHDetroit
        Copper Contributor

        Has this been resolved? I am still experiencing difficulty searching a shared calendar in Outlook 365

  • Hi Maurits
    I'm not very sure about your problem ,Generally, when sharing a calendar to other people in OWA (Outlook Web App) (https://outlook.office365.com/owa/), you can choose corresponding permissions in order to control the user who was shared the calendar to have what kind of operation to the shared calendar.Availability only shows the time of items on your calendar and no other details.
    For more information, please refer to:
    support.office.com/.../Sharing-your-calendar-in-Outlook-Web-App-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5

    thanks!

    • Maurits Knoppert's avatar
      Maurits Knoppert
      Iron Contributor
      Hello Albert,

      Thank you for your answer.

      The problem is not about sharing the calendar. The problem is that when I have a shared calendar (I have the edit rights for that calendar) I can't search for appointments for that Calendar.

      As you can see in my screenshot I can fill in a search and then only the appointments with that word are visible. But when I fill in a search word and hit search the searchpane is still empty. There are no search results returned.

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