Filtering upcoming events on Communication sites?

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Hi there,
How can I filter upcoming events on Communication sites?
Lets say I am organizing a townwide event, with activities in different&nbsp;locations in the&nbsp;city, thoughout a day. On the front page of my Communication sites all activities shows up in the upcoming event Webpart, which is all good. Now, I have 5 different locations where there are activities respectively. I would like to create&nbsp;page for each of these locations where there is info about the location as well as a filtered view of activities on that specific location. Perhaps I am just not seeing the forest because of all the trees, but cannot seem to find how I can filter, as it only filters on this week, this month, etc...any suggestions?

steven collier · Answer

You cant filter the view on Location, but you can on Category. I would suggest using this in addition to location to create your filtered views. You can type anything in as a new catogory when you create an event, it'll then be available in the category filter for the part.
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merethe stave · Answer

Hi Steven Collier, thanks for your feedback and that works, eg, I can filter on all category = conserts. However, back to my example, then I would have to do it the way around then to create one page for the different activities, but from a "audience" point of view, if they are going to one certain part of the&nbsp;city&nbsp;where there will be several activites&nbsp;they would then have to go to the different activities pages and search for the location. Of course, I am problematizing this now, as for instance each location could just write their program on each page, or create a queery, or whatnot.
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My point is that it would be nice with more options for filtering in addition to the standard name of list/category/date.The possibility to filter items with a few tags&nbsp;is part of the SharePoint Magic! ;-) Could we put this on a wishlist somewhere somehow, please?

steven collier · Answer

Sorry I don't understand. Use Category to represent location, not that it's a concert or whatever. The category field is just metadata that can be used as a filter, in your example the only thing you wanted to filter by was where it was, so I would use Category for that.
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steven collier · Answer

Merethe Stave wrote:
.if I am arranging&nbsp;an event in a city, let's say&nbsp;the Contosa City 150 years anniversary, and there would be concerts, exhibitions, games and other activities throughout&nbsp;the city and I wanted to show&nbsp;all concerts and games, but not exhibitions,&nbsp;at the&nbsp;respective locations&nbsp;

You would also need a webpart that allows you to select multiple items (concerts or games) or exclude (not exhibitions). I think you've probably gone quite a way beyond the point where you would use an out of the box component like the Event's webpart,&nbsp; but you could develop something custom to your requirements. For example I would use a termset rather than a simple field, then you can assign events to multiple terms (e.g. Superbowl is a game and a concert, in a location).

deleted · Answer

Was just looking at this too, my initial thought (based on how SharePoint did it in the old world) was that just add a list view to events, add columns as desired (this is all still possible). But then when I added the new modern list view webpart, I was thinking that it would display the Events list. By alas it didn't.
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So to do this you kinda need to go&nbsp;back to the old way. As above create columns for categories and views on the event list. Then create either links to those views, or another list with categories and the links in it. Add that list to the new modern page, filter the category columns as necessary to get the link you want. Not sure if that made sense ...&nbsp;
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PS. Events can be found under Site Content, and is old school SharePoint.

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