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Filtering upcoming events on Communication sites?
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 city where there will be several activites 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.
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 is part of the SharePoint Magic! ;-) Could we put this on a wishlist somewhere somehow, please?
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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Hi Steven Collier,
Yes, I could use the category field for location, and you are right for the example above. Perhaps this would suffice in most cases...
However, just to play with the thought a little bit more...if I am arranging an event in a city, let's say the Contosa City 150 years anniversary, and there would be concerts, exhibitions, games and other activities throughout the city and I wanted to show all concerts and games, but not exhibitions, at the respective locations which means I would need two category groups, one for locations and one for type of activity. Any ideas about this?
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.
So to do this you kinda need to go 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 ...
PS. Events can be found under Site Content, and is old school SharePoint.
Yes Deleted, I did the same, and that might just work well enough, for now.
Merethe Stave wrote:
.if I am arranging an event in a city, let's say the Contosa City 150 years anniversary, and there would be concerts, exhibitions, games and other activities throughout the city and I wanted to show all concerts and games, but not exhibitions, at the respective locations
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, 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).
Yes, true Steven Collier, just wanted to play with the thought to check if all possibilites where explored. I don't have a specific case, just want to explore a bit. :-) Still, I think it would be Nice to be able to add one more column, but valid point about terms. Thank you for joining my thoughts, we'll see what comes along.