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Alyssa Danesh
Microsoft
MicrosoftNew Group calendar web part rolling out now
The SharePoint team is excited to announce the new Group calendar web part! This web part will be added to the toolbox when creating team news articles and modern pages. We are rolling out to First R...
The new Group calendar is a welcome addition to modern pages, especially so for sites that are Group-based.
Without wanting to detract from its usefulness, it only points to an Office 365 Group's calendar. It does not point to a non-Group-based site calendar.
A lot of our team sites are not Group-based (we've debated if they should or shouldn't and agreed on the latter for various reasons). Almost every one of those sites has at least one calendar.
Is there any chance that the same Group calendar web part will re-appear as a generic calendar web part that points to any calendar?
- Hi Andrew,
I believe the Events web part already does this.
Andy.Thanks Andrew
The Events calendar doesn't present information on the page from a site calendar as good as the new Groups calendar does; it does, of course, show Events nicely, but many of our site calendars have individual daily items like you see in standard Outlook (and now Group) calendars. See the screenshow for how our Leave Calendar looks like - what we really want to see is a list of items filtered for today, which is what we have done with SP2013.
- Alyssa Danesh
I see! So each day you can see who's out - makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!
