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 I have been forever intrigued as to why the Channel Calendar Teams app doesn't allow creation of non-meeting based events.
It looks like the Channel Calendar app will be looking inside the Group Calendar's list of events, and for every event that exists, it will then look for a particular property called joinUrl that won't exist at all if you create a Group Calendar event via Outlook or the relevant Power Automate action. It then filters it based on the joinUrl (using the Channel ID that is buried within the property).
My https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Getting-events-from-Group-Calendar/m-p/2386890/highlight/true#M266057 contains a bit more of an explanation.
Which means: in its current implementation, we won't be able to create a non-meeting event for a Channel as the filtering per channel calendar is based on the joinUrl property. However, what is a bit silly is that the usual Group Calendar colour categories can't be customised either, rendering that feature to be practically useless as well.
That should also explain why the Group Calendar (when viewed in Outlook or SharePoint as a Group Calendar web part) also contains all Channel meetings but not the other way around.
- Interesting stuff, relating to the 'meta data' I was pondering back in April 2021 ...a little sad that this (basic) feature has been discussed for sooooooo long 😞
