Aug 22 2017 08:25 PM - edited Aug 22 2017 08:26 PM
The SharePoint team is excited to announce the new Group calendar web part! This web part will be added to the toolbox when creating team news articles and modern pages. We are rolling out to First Release customers now!
What are modern pages you ask?
“Modern team site pages are fast, easy to author and support rich multimedia content. And pages look great on any device, in a browser or from within the SharePoint app. Using pages is a great way to communicate and share your ideas—such as status and trip reports, how-to write-ups, know-before-you-go guides and frequently asked questions.” - from our blog post last year.
Group calendar
The Group calendar web part allows you to easily view the calendar of an existing modern group on a page. Just select the group you’d like to link, select the number of calendar events per page you’d like to show, and the web part will automatically populate the events.
Easily switch between past and upcoming events, get more details about a specific event, and even download the event to add to your calendar.
In the future, we will be listening to customer feedback and adding features! See our support documentation here.
Aug 31 2017 10:23 PM
Sep 01 2017 01:08 PM
I see! So each day you can see who's out - makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!
Sep 01 2017 01:10 PM
Has been a popular request! In the backlog :)
Sep 05 2017 01:51 PM
My supervisor is able to see the "Group Calendar" app in his list, but I still cannot. Would there be a reason why He can see and use it and I can't?
Sep 05 2017 01:54 PM
Sep 05 2017 01:54 PM
Maybe his account is set to First Release and Yours isnt? If hes already added it to a site along with adding a group to the calander, you should be able to see it on the page I would assume. Thats what I noticed by experience.
Sep 05 2017 02:53 PM
Sep 05 2017 02:54 PM
I alerted my boss about FR being setup on our account. He said we didn't have tenant, but we do have FR setup for specific users, so he added me to the list. And now all is well and Group Calendar is working for me. Thank you.
Sep 11 2017 05:23 AM
Sweet! I just got it not too long ago. Its handy to be on the lookout for new features and then you can test them before you roll them out to other users. I really like the new Modern Style of SharePoint so its a priority to get users on it asap.
Sep 27 2017 03:22 AM
Hi, there seems to be some issue with the web part. It is displaying incorrect time (one hour less than it should be) in the meetings that occur in the future eg. 17th of October. The time is shown correctly at the web part, in the meeting that is happening today. User and site timezone settings are ok, and the group calendar is displaying the meetings as they are. So it looks like the issue is within that new web part.
Any ideas what to do?
Sep 27 2017 03:48 AM
Can we use overlays with this?
Oct 03 2017 11:46 AM
We are seeing the same thing but ours is 4 hours off. We are Eastern time zone. All timezone settings are accurate (both the sharepoint site and the calendar I'm sharing). Also is showing all day events as a 24h long event, which therefore is wrapping from late the day before to the next day. If I set the *sharepoint* site's timezone to 0:00 UTC it displays correctly (though still "midnight to midnight"). Please a) fix the timezone shift, and b) would love it if all day events just displayed as "all day"....
Oct 04 2017 12:28 PM
Oct 11 2017 05:45 PM
I also have an issue with the time displayed. It'ok OK in Outlook client and Web Access but off by 4 hours on the page.
I'm on the eastern timezone.
Oct 12 2017 10:01 AM
Hi -
Thanks to everyone for reporting the date/time issue! We have a fixed and should be rolled out now. Please let me know if you still are experiencing this issue.
Oct 12 2017 10:08 AM
Hi Martin -
What do you mean by 'overlays'?
Oct 13 2017 07:23 AM
Not fixed! Didn't mention this before, but interestingly this is just an issue with all day events. An actual timed event shows correctly. But still getting the 4 hour shift on all day events, 8pm day before to 8pm day of....
Oct 16 2017 10:59 AM
Not fixed, still 4 hours difference
Oct 16 2017 11:19 AM
Looking into it... Thanks for your help! @David Sullo @Benoit Fournier