Often you will get team leads who want to make calendars for their team schedule or something. Here is how to do it:
- First of all, people like to use the calendar extension through teams by searching for it then adding it to their channel. This is not the way. Its a bogus app that only allows people to add like 5 events or something before asking them to upgrade their license. The way to do it is through sharepoint
- Sharepoint owners (maybe admins too) can add this, so if they know how that way without screwing things up go for it.
- Anyway
- Go to the site where the calendar is wanted.
- Find the Site Contents subsection (typically on the left hand side)
- Click the + New icon
- Select App from the drop down
- Under Apps You can add there is a little explanation that you can add some apps like the calendar and it can be found in the classic experience ᵀᴹ
- Click that link and search for the calendar option
- Make a name for the calendar, create it, mid / max your calendar view settings do what you want
- IMPORTANT, When it gives you an option for advanced settings after the Name box, click it
- Make sure Use this calendar to share member's schedule? is Set to NO
- I dont know what yes does, but I do know that you will waste several hours of time trying to figure out WHY PEOPLE CANT ADD EVENTS TO THE CALENDAR
- Weirdly events show up in the view "Current Events" but not in a calendar format
- Ask Chris why this is
- He wont tell me
- So be sure to select NO before you create it
- Now
- For
- Teams
- If this is your channel do this, if not, tell the user who is asking to do this:
- Go to that channel
- In the tab bar area in the top middle, select the + to add a new tab
- Search for Web
- Then Copy the URL from the Sharepoint calendar
- This will create a pin where users can access the sharepoint calendar
- They have to be members of that sharepoint group to see it though
That's the sauce.
Here is a copy/paste if you want to tell people how to do it themselves:
- Go to the site where the calendar is wanted.
- Find the Site Contents subsection (typically on the left hand side)
- Click the + New icon
- Select App from the drop down
- Under Apps You can add there is a little explanation that you can add some apps like the calendar and it can be found in the classic experience
- Click that link and search for the calendar option
- Make a name for the calendar, create it, edit your calendar view settings do what you want
- IMPORTANT, When it gives you an option for advanced settings after the Name box, click it
- Make sure Use this calendar to share member's schedule? is Set to NO
- ---In Teams---
- Go to that channel
- In the tab bar area in the top middle, select the + to add a new tab
- Search for Web
- Then Copy the URL from the Sharepoint calendar
- This will create a pin where users can access the sharepoint calendar
- They have to be members of that sharepoint group to see it though