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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 ...
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.
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.