Forum Discussion
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.
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.
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.
If you want some answers I believe you have to be more precise and not elaborate too much. Simply short questions.
But to answer the initial very first post. No, you can't add an appointment as when scheduling with Outlook. And with Outlook you can't schedule in channels right now, so you can't add an appointment in a channel from Outlook.
When scheduling in Teams there are only meetings. Consequently an event is a meeting, and not an appointment, but perhaps an appointment option will be available later on.
Sometimes the official docs can be confusing because of the technical writers not being technical engineers. But in general the docs and support pages are really good.Having recently been involved in trying to resolve a departmental issue around scheduling events/meetings, I immediately saw this as the fix. Unfortunately this isn't the case as the Channel Calendar does not function as per the instructions and help guides suggest.
The issue: - A department wants a location/shared calendar that the entire team can access and use to schedule meetings and events that they can all see, but not necessarily all be notified/invited (unless explicitly targeted). They can then put holidays in and events that the team need to be aware of but that aren't meetings, as well as some meetings that need to be viewable and/or modified by multiple members of the team.
The Channel Calendar guide specifically says that when a meeting is scheduled in the channel calendar, it doesn't automatically invite all users of the channel but they can all see it from within Teams. It would however add it to users calendars and notify them if they are specifically invited to the meeting.
On testing this, when you create a meeting from within the channel it does send an invite to every member of the channel and notifies them (as required attendees). Was this implemented incorrectly or am I missing something here?
- The support page https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/see-all-your-meetings-in-teams-cebd0b41-5cab-42bd-a6dc-bca46bda7b35
Hey, you asked for the official info and I provided it. I do not work at Microsoft so add your opinion as feedback from within Teams (bottom left corner). You should use Outlook and not Teams for a mature scheduling experience where you simply have more scheduling options (not when it comes to channel meetings of course).
And why don't you just read some of the MVP's articles on the topic if you find the official info insufficient. Or do your own research.
https://office365itpros.com/2021/01/11/teams-channel-calendar-app/
https://myteamsday.com/2021/01/11/channel-calendar/
https://petri.com/getting-started-with-shared-calendars-in-microsoft-teams
