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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
- mark,
Any updates to customize the Modern Events page so that we can include custom metadata columns when adding new or editing events?
Users liked the capability of Where (Location) field to display maps but it will be difficult to switch between Modern and Classic views just to specify additional columns.
Lastly, it would also be nice to add a custom command/link when displaying Event details and launch a Power Automate workflow. - John_Sanders
Microsoft
Thanks for the suggestions. We don't have any plans in the near term to visualize custom columns on the modern create events page, nor in the card views. We do have these as concepts on our backlog, but haven't been investing in this area recently.
If 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!
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.
