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Add an EVENT to Channel Calendar
Hi,
Can someone tell me how to add an Event to the CHANNEL calendar?
I have easily added the Channel Calendar app as a tab to the Channel.
This opens my week view, with the option to + Add new event.
If I select this, it immediately opens New meeting.
I do not want to invite people, I want an event that everyone can see in the calendar. I also want to be able to categorise different events with colour, being a basic EVENT function.
Surely MS have not implemented a calendar in which you can only have meetings? Am I missing something basic?
Many thanks
ChrizK Hello, just to put it out there it's a highly requested feature being worked on Include Office 365 group calendar in teams – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
As for the channel calendar it's only a calendar for channel meetings that have been scheduled in that team in that channel.
You would have to use the Outlook client to create an appointment and not a meeting, but unfortunately not possible to schedule in channels from Outlook today.
- Did you ever find a solution to this? I've just added a Teams Channel Calendar and have run into exactly the same problem. I want it to be a Calendar for the Team, not just for Teams Meetings.
Sorry, either people don’t seem to comprehend the difference, or Microsoft are just choosing to ignore it. My guess is that MS have not implemented Channel Calendars properly, as it appears to be integrated with the Team Calendar. I suspect they have inadvertently ended up with a limitation due to poor design, but just choose to ignore it ...just noticed an MSFT has marked 'Best Response Confirmed' above ...kinda illustrates that some people don’t get the basic concept of an event based calendar. IMO the best response appears to simply be, ‘no, you can’t add an event’ ....go figure! It is disheartening that someone from MS Engineering doesn't acknowledge the problem.
ChrizK Hello, just to put it out there it's a highly requested feature being worked on Include Office 365 group calendar in teams – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
As for the channel calendar it's only a calendar for channel meetings that have been scheduled in that team in that channel.
You would have to use the Outlook client to create an appointment and not a meeting, but unfortunately not possible to schedule in channels from Outlook today.
- Hi Matt, just re-read your response. Do you only need a Calendar for the Team?
My question was specifically in regard to the Channel capability, ie I would like to have a FULL calendar capability for a channel. This would allow me to have events specific to each channel activity.
Teams is effectively a front end to several MS products. I guess you could think of a Team being a Group with added capability providing collaborative working (see the link within the support URL provided by ChristianBergstrom).
Being a Group, it 'automatically' has a Group Calendar, which your Team can access. This is discussed as the Highly Requested Feature that Christian refers to. As mentioned, there is a workaround in place. You will need to open the Group Calendar in O365, copy the URL, and add it as a web page to Teams.
Hope that helps.
Hi Community,
I am struggling to accept that MS have implemented a 'so called calendar', which can only add meetings. The whole concept of a calendar is event based (only an electronic calendar can have the addition of meetings).
Being the fundamental use of a calendar, I would appreciate a Teams Guru answering, even if it is just to categorically say, "Nope, it only allows meetings".
It appears that the O365 Group Calendar (aka, Team) appears to be used by all the channels. I am wondering if MS has implemented a poorly constructed solution, by perhaps (re)using the Group Calendar Events as Channel Meetings (could explain 'Add new event'), resulting in actual Events being blocked (used for another purpose) ... which makes no sense to me ...
Sorry but the answer proposed does not respond to the request. The request is to schedule "events" not just meetings on the calendar. For example, I know that there is a webinar of interest for the team (on another platform) and I want to place on the team calendar the "event" possibly with a link to the external platform where the event takes place. That would make the calendar much more useful. Any idea? Thanks
Vittorio Scarano
- Apologies, I completely missed the initial response.
I very much appreciate anyone taking the time to help, but the video clearly shows someone selecting ‘add EVENT’, adding a MEETING, and then proceeding to join that meeting. This clearly illustrates my whole point ... it is nit an event, it is a meeting.
A simple example of a calendar event ‘Leave now to go to dentist’ ... it isn’t a meeting in which I am inviting the dentist, it is an event in my calendar telling me to leave.
I am a little unsure why the basic concept of an event is proving difficult to understand.
Agreed that the function of an "event" without it being a meeting is not available. The best I could come up with was not add anyone to attend and to delete the meeting information in the body. It didn't show up as a post in the channel either.
ChrizK As you have stated in other posts, Teams channels pull from several different MS products, including SharePoint. You can add a Calendar to the SharePoint folder (same name as the Teams channel) and you can schedule events without making a meeting. Problem is not many people use the SharePoint site of 'Teams'
ChrizK I have been forever intrigued as to why the Channel Calendar Teams app doesn't allow creation of non-meeting based events.
It looks like the Channel Calendar app will be looking inside the Group Calendar's list of events, and for every event that exists, it will then look for a particular property called joinUrl that won't exist at all if you create a Group Calendar event via Outlook or the relevant Power Automate action. It then filters it based on the joinUrl (using the Channel ID that is buried within the property).
My other post here contains a bit more of an explanation.
Which means: in its current implementation, we won't be able to create a non-meeting event for a Channel as the filtering per channel calendar is based on the joinUrl property. However, what is a bit silly is that the usual Group Calendar colour categories can't be customised either, rendering that feature to be practically useless as well.
That should also explain why the Group Calendar (when viewed in Outlook or SharePoint as a Group Calendar web part) also contains all Channel meetings but not the other way around.
- Interesting stuff, relating to the 'meta data' I was pondering back in April 2021 ...a little sad that this (basic) feature has been discussed for sooooooo long 😞
ChrizK Did anyone ever find a resolution to this? I have the same issue, want to just create a calendar of upcoming events, awareness days etc and colour code them, but I'm only being given the option to create a meeting, not an event. We used to have a calendar on a teams channel in the past where this was possible, but that channel has been deleted.
niamhb1430 Sorry, I don't think Microsoft really take much notice of the community. You are often directed to raise a feature request, in the hope that enough people have the same requirement and up-vote you.
It makes sense to evaluate some bespoke ideas, but in my opinion, it is just a lazy way of not accepting product ownership and responsibility.
This particular feature is so obvious, it doesn't need evaluating, as it should be core/fundamental. Shame nobody at MS has any pride in their products to make them better (or the organisation does not empower them).
