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New 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 Release customers now!
- Note: only tenants that have First Release (FR) set to on for the entire tenant will see these features.
- Per user first release flighting is not applicable when creating new content that could be seen/viewed by non FR enabled users.
What are modern pages you ask?
“Modern team site pages are fast, easy to author and support rich multimedia content. And pages look great on any device, in a browser or from within the SharePoint app. Using pages is a great way to communicate and share your ideas—such as status and trip reports, how-to write-ups, know-before-you-go guides and frequently asked questions.” - from our blog post last year.
Group calendar
The Group calendar web part allows you to easily view the calendar of an existing modern group on a page. Just select the group you’d like to link, select the number of calendar events per page you’d like to show, and the web part will automatically populate the events.
Easily switch between past and upcoming events, get more details about a specific event, and even download the event to add to your calendar.
In the future, we will be listening to customer feedback and adding features! See our support documentation here.
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- Turned up today :-) and putting to good use already. Thanks!
- same here, now available.
- Hi Alyssa Danesh is there an update on rollout of this web part? Not seeing yet in FR and curious about progress. Thanks!
Everyone in FR should have it by tonight!
My supervisor is able to see the "Group Calendar" app in his list, but I still cannot. Would there be a reason why He can see and use it and I can't?
- We also haven't received this yet, we're first release.
- Great news but you need to keep an eye on which features reach FR Entire Tenant or FR Selected Users first. There are bigger problems I know but Admins need to keep a watchlist nowadays ;-)
Completely agree with John. For the uninitiated, it's difficult to keep up! I broached this topic is the recent admin AMA and got a useful response but for now (pre-Ignite), it can be frustrating keeping track of new features being flighted.
Back to the main point, great to see another web part being added and such a useful one as well.
- Great WebPart!!!!
It is good to see this new option but for those of us with a limited number of First Release users, it really is just advice of future functionality that presumably will go to GA for everyone at the same time.
What does this phrase mean, especially the underlined words: 'Per user first release flighting is not applicable when creating new content that could be seen/viewed by non FR enabled users.' Can we have that in normal English, please?
- Will this be SharePoint Online only?
Yes, SharePoint Online only.
- In the past new content was usually released first to tenants with a first release setting to "selected users only", while "full tenant fr" had to wait a little longer.
In this case, they had to release it the other way around, because anyone could put this webpart on any modern page and all users would see it, even though the tenant is set to "fr for select users only".
