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Sharepoint Modern events webpart - Where are my custom fields?
- Yeah, this is a limitation in the new Events WebPart: it's not going to show any custom field you add in your events list
Hi Robert Woods and everyone else. I'll need to loop in our web parts lead ( John_Sanders ) who can best help decipher what might be happening with how the various web parts behave when using them on modern pages within classic sites.
In the mean time, did you consider moving the site into a full modern state? Or good reason to keep it classic?
Thanks, Mark
MicrosoftIf you want to visualize custom metadata columns within a calendar view, you'll likely need to look for a community contributed web part in the near term to meet your needs.
However in the future we will deliver a calendar view for lists, which may also meet your needs. No ETA to discuss at this time.
- So fast forward 3 years and we are exactly where we were in 2019...
- Can you at least provide a way we can filter events into views by additional fields like tags or metadata. My use case needs to show only a subset of all Events in a view ex. show only the Events in the Category X that are either tagged or have metadata like a project or topic.
You can filter on added managed properties.
Filter a highlighted content webpart on managed property like: owstaxIdEvent0020Category Equals GP0|#11768280-33d6-46e1-a323-f2916fdccc0a
In this case I added a managed metadata lookup column called "Event Category"
owstaxIdEvent0020Category is the technical property name of this metadata hive and GP0|#11768280-33d6-46e1-a323-f2916fdccc0a is the ID of the choice you want to filter on.
Very cumbersome Microsoft!- Is anyone surprised by yet another Microsoft GOTCHA!!!???
Like I always say: EACH AND EVERY TIME, EVERY SINGLE TIME I try and implement something new, use a new feature or create something the way we used to there's a wall, a gotcha. Ya you can do or use this only if it's a tuesday with a full moon otherwise you're sol.
This behavoir by msft has been going on for 20 some odd years and it's alwyas justified with oh we havent gotten around to it yet, please add it to the wishlist etc. etc.
Same thing for cascading drop downs (and don't say managed metadata because that is another set of issues all together), built-in filtering of lookups, built-in filtering of managed metadata fields used as lookups and on and on.
Seems all the fance, cutsy little connectors are designed, built and deployed within a week but the things we've been asking for for 20 years that we expect to be STANDARD, EVERYDAY WEB-BASED FUNCTIONALITY? Well, there's just not enough interest in the wwishlst. Hey, we need time and resources to build connectors for Trello etc. Pathetic.Agreed. It's now 2023, and it is still not there. You can add columns to the events list, and even filter on the managed property you added, but you just cannot get this site columns to show in the Event Add form. I need it, and it should be such an easy fix....... @#^@^#%
John_Sanders Thank you for the update. I would also be interested in having the custom fields. Moreover, since the "add event" doesn't use the correct form, is it possible to have it removed completely? That way, the web part could show the events, but users aren't putting in "incomplete data" by using the wrong form/process.
John_Sanders Thanks so much for the response Sir. It will help us all plan accordingly.
