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Issues with/Advice for Calendar views of modern lists
HIi Chad_V_Kealey ,
We explored this extensively with a client recently and the best option was to use the classic calendars. Not ideal as they dont work well on Mobile etc but it was the best solution. Any editing was done through Outlook desktop client and all users could sync the calendar should they wish to with permissions on the SharePoint list controlling who could edit it.
We can still use the modern webparts to show a summary of the up and coming events on other pages so that worked well, for example to show summaries of the events on the homepage of the Intranet for example.
Just need to wait for the modern calendar, which may be on the way.
Kind regards
Andy
Andrew Hodges , thanks for the feedback. According to this UserVoice suggestion, it looks like there aren't any current plans to implement modern Calendar views. This is discouraging.
In any case, the good news is that I was able to at least get the calendar views to show up consistently by changing the List experience to "Classic". The bad news is that this means no modern views at all of the list, and all of the classic views have a "New" button at the top which completely bypasses the App and the customized form for the list. I was also able to create a Flow that will run when a leave entry is created directly in the list (not the App) to notify the submitter and then delete the event.
It's just very frustrating to end users (and us IT folks) when functionality is lost during "upgrades" to products. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good stuff in the whole "modern" experience, but the things that are missing are the ones that folks then to latch onto.
HiChad_V_Kealey ,
Your only other option would be to use something not out of the box, I have not used this but here is a modern calendar from the SharePoint Framework. If you needed a hand implementing it PM me.
Andy
