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Add an EVENT to Channel Calendar
ChrizK Hello, just to put it out there it's a highly requested feature being worked on https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16933204-include-office-365-group-calendar-in-teams
As for the channel calendar it's only a calendar for channel meetings that have been scheduled in that team in that channel.
You would have to use the Outlook client to create an appointment and not a meeting, but unfortunately not possible to schedule in channels from Outlook today.
Sorry, either people don’t seem to comprehend the difference, or Microsoft are just choosing to ignore it. My guess is that MS have not implemented Channel Calendars properly, as it appears to be integrated with the Team Calendar. I suspect they have inadvertently ended up with a limitation due to poor design, but just choose to ignore it ...just noticed an MSFT has marked 'Best Response Confirmed' above ...kinda illustrates that some people don’t get the basic concept of an event based calendar. IMO the best response appears to simply be, ‘no, you can’t add an event’ ....go figure! It is disheartening that someone from MS Engineering doesn't acknowledge the problem.
ChrizK Hello, just to put it out there it's a highly requested feature being worked on https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16933204-include-office-365-group-calendar-in-teams
As for the channel calendar it's only a calendar for channel meetings that have been scheduled in that team in that channel.
You would have to use the Outlook client to create an appointment and not a meeting, but unfortunately not possible to schedule in channels from Outlook today.
ChristianBergstrom best response has a link that provides an error. I am looking for the ability to have a teams channel calendar that would allow events that DO NOT invite members of the teams channel. Example conference and event tracking that is for organizational awareness, but NOT placed on members calendars.
- Thank you for your reply. Can you direct me to where MS have stated the limitation/intended use of Channel Calendars? It is disappointing that they have not considered that users would like to have full calendar functions per channel.
From my point of view, I do not want integration with the Team/Group Calendar, I need an independent Calendar per Channel (as mentioned originally, I would like to add events with colour coding).
I am not sure that the feature you mention fulfils this requirement, as it appears to simply ask to see the Team/Group calendar within Teams (isn't the 'accepted' workaround to use the URL to O365?).In my opinion, the support page provided is very unclear and confused document.
Add a shared calendar to a channel
Now that you have a shared calendar, you can add meetings that all members can join.
>>>>Personally, in the context of the document, I do not consider this explicit, but it is understandable why some may deduce that it is the only capability, despite the Button saying "Add Event".
To elaborate on the context...
Things to know about channel calendars
To add a channel event to your personal calendar, open the event and select Add to calendar.
>>>>The heading is in regard to Things to know about channel calendars, so why does it switch to personal?
Channel events can only be scheduled and viewed from the Teams app.
>>>>so, are there Channel Events or not???????
Thanks to the contributions, I believe we have decided there is no such thing as a Channel Event, despite the terrible implementation indicating that there is.
A channel calendar is a filtered view of the Microsoft 365 group calendar that is associated with the team. It only shows the events for a specific channel and not the entire team. You can read up on how Teams and Microsoft 365 groups work together at https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/office-365-groups#ability-to-add-group-as-attendee-while-scheduling-meetings.
>>>>I had done my research before posting this question. As stated in the update to my initial post, I had come to the conclusion that this implementation was a merely a view of the Team calendar. It is good to see that the article confirms my analysis was correct.
However, I am unsure why you can add a Meeting but not an Event. It indicates that there is insufficient meta data in an Event to separate it into a Channel View, whereas the a meeting has the ability.
If it is simply meta data, surely MS could investigate and propose a product change? It could possibly be a fairly simple enhancement, if someone considers it.
However, I believe being a view of the Team/Group calendar is short sighted. I am unsure why any Team would want a global picture of all meetings across all channels. To my mind, this would simply make the Team/Group calendar unmanageable.
I believe it is unhelpful for an MSFT to mark an incorrect response as the best answer, as it just shows a lack of understanding, and more importantly, causes more confusion with the people that understand/have the same question, and have ended up here.
(it looks like that has now been removed, but without any acknowledgement or answer)
Anyway, without any input from Microsoft, I believe the question has been answered. Hopefully those with the same question will find this useful.
