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Team Message Notifications
Hi,
We are trying to record team's on duty/off duty and travel information through Team Calendar of SharePoint Online.
Once team members to add new events in the Team Calendar, we hope the SharePoint Online will send out a notification to the team DL or team members' email addresses?
How to set it?
- You can totally do this if you use a calendar list, or even a custom list. Then just have the users setup alerts or subscribe them to an alert for the list. If you do a custom list you can set a calendar view.
You cannot however yet use the calendar in modern pages, but you can link to the calendar from a modern page into classic mode for viewing the calendar. It works fine we use it for our.
We also added a recent function that when new entries of type(Custom column) PTO gets added to the calendar it sends a message with the entries start/end times and description etc. into a Teams chat in the OOF channel.
So multiple things you can do, but the fastest way to get a calendar to send notifications out of the box is to just create a custom list. Slap a calendar view on it and then setup alerts. The only thing a "calendar list" has over the custom list is the ability to sync it with Outlook. If that is not a requirement then use custom list since the list itself will work in modern view, but calendar still wont. - No, it won't. SPO Team Calendars does not provide this functionality...you need to make some extra configuration such using OOB alerts or even a Flow to send out those notifications
