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New Group calendar web part rolling out now
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?
I believe the Events web part already does this.
Andy.
- AndrewWarlandSep 01, 2017Steel Contributor
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 DaneshSep 01, 2017Former Employee
I see! So each day you can see who's out - makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!
- Andrew SilcockSep 01, 2017Steel ContributorI see what you mean!
There's definitely a need at our end for improvements to the calendars. We're really like to see a modern calendar on the calendar page, as well as a calendar view web part, like we can have on classic pages.- Robert WoodsFeb 09, 2018Steel ContributorAny plans on building color coordination into these calendars?