Teams needs a REAL Calendar!
Would love to have a Calendar to allow those in the same team to view each other's availability and whereabouts. Would make it a lot easier to create appointments/meetings.
The calendar could be a tab in a channel (so then you could have multiple calendars in one team) or could be an icon on the left app bar, instead of "Meetings" which is helpful to no one.
Could also be helpful to add a way for us to add a SharePoint Team calendar.
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The team has delivered improvements to the New Meeting experience in Calendar such as optional attendees, richer custom recurrence UX, as well as enhanced meeting RSVPs.
To learn more about RSVPing to meetings in the Teams Calendar, how to create a recurring meeting, and the new meeting scheduling experience including the scheduling assistant, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/office/schedule-a-meeting-in-teams-943507a9-8583-4c58-b5d2-8ec8265e04e5.
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244 comments
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Josh Ansbridge
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I can't see direct ideas about this elsewhere - but thats because of the sea of people requesting basic calendar functionality which has already been delivered. For us it would be amazing if we could delegate edit access to meetings we have created. I.E so that if people are out of the office or have left the organisation we don't have to recreate meetings - anybody with delegated access should be able to edit. And to be clear - I don't want to be a delegate of their entire mailbox to achieve it - that just creates a new problem.
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Neil
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also, allow the recipient / invite to search outlook for external party email addresses
save me having to open outlook and copy 3rd party email address or having to use outlook or just remove the new meeting option as pointless otherwise -
Sil
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Having the ability to link/view a persons calendar in their mouse over info would be SUPER helpful and efficient.
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Tim Örting
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Needless to say but the calendar-share function need to work with external people also.
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Kasia
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It would be great, though, if calendar view for each person in a company was available in the ribbon next to individual's name, just like "Files", Organization" etc. (example attached). While chatting with someone we could check their calendar and schedule a meeting within Teams which would help save some time instead of checking their availability and scheduling the call in a separate app (Outlook). The meeting would be displayed in Outlook calendar as well - the whole idea is to link Outlook calendar with Teams and make it available over there too, so all changes could be done in either Outlook or Teams but would be reflected in both apps.
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Anonymous
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Outlook has been the best calendar for Office use…Why is the Team's version a stripped-down / bare-bones version? Why break something that didn't need fixing?!
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Stein V
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I'd like to have a posibility to open a persons calendar from the persons profile in the Chat app
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justin
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Why can I only see the current week in the mobile app calendar. I would like to be able to go back and forth in weeks as far as I want. Now I have to switch to desktop version to plan meetings.
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Beat Bischof
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Whenever I chat with up to four people (internal or external) I want to be able to open the participants calendars in TEAMS by only clicking on the Calendar-Icon in order to to check if and when those people are available or in order to find free time slots.
Like in Outlook I want to have the possibility to overlay several of those calendars into one. -
Arul
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Why can I only see the current week in the mobile app calendar. I would like to be able to go back and forth in weeks as far as I want. Now I have to switch to desktop version to plan meetings.
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SH
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Question - when I create an event in a CHANNEL CALENDAR, is there an option to disable the sync back to the Channel individual members' calendar?
Sometime we just want to add an event or milestones in the CHANNEL CALENDAR, for everyone's info, but not necessarily be added to their individual calendar.
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Andy B
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I'll add some info to this as well, it would be great if we could use the calendar similar to a "SharePoint" calendar, the functionality with SharePoint is already there, but this is something that would benefit us greatly with doing license renewal dates, PTO of team members, etc.
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Rich
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The new channel calendar app leaves a lot to be desired. Why is everything a meeting? What if we just want to notate team-relevant information like "Shana is on vacation" or "Bill on call for after hours support" ?
And the fact that guests can't view the calendar is pretty limiting for us. Hopefully some improvements are coming.
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CamT
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also it would be great if the calendar would also be available when you are a guest in another organisation. We had a meeting in another organisation's Ms Teams channel and we were not able to look at our calendar within teams without having to drop the call.
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JY
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Not sure if this was mentioned in all the comments, but to expand on this idea, it would be great to be able to hover over a contact in your chat or right click to see a quick view on their calendar availability. For example, when seeing a contact in busy status, you could then quickly see what their availability might look like for the rest of the day.
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Sebastian Forman commented
Ironically the application is called "Teams"
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Ken ST
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Outlook Group/Team Calendars, Outlook Shared Calendars - where is the ability to add both of these Exchange Calendar Types to the one view in the Calendar function in Teams?
e.g. My Outlook Calendar and the Bookings Calendar can currently show in the same Calendar view side by side in Teams - but no other Calendar can be added.
Microsoft love making new versions of the same things - rather than integration. Now we have NEW Channel Calendars to add to the mix, but still no way of adding a Team/Group Calendar to the Calendar view.
So frustrating - Calendars should be the easiest thing to add to Teams so that you don't need to leave Teams to check your one or MANY calendars.
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Nazia Naz
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IN Team Calander if the booking is on the same location and the same time is not showing busy status on the calendar.
need to appear on the calendar is busy. -
Doks
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-Teams Channel : SLN Commerce
-Teams Channel has 3 owners: Admin 1, Admin 2 and Admin 3
-Each Admin has their own calendar, when Admin 1creates a meeting on his calendar, it does not show up on Admin 2's calendar neither on Admin 3
*admin 1 creates test 1 shows in admin 1 calendar = both Outlook and Teams-checked in outlook, it shows as personal calendar
*admin 2 creates test 2 shows in admin 2 calendar = both Outlook and Teams
-checked in outlook, it shows as personal calendar
-tried accessing both calendars at the same time in Outlook, the Test meeting created inside teams is still not showing
-customer is asking if there is a way to see both calendars at the same time for ALL Owners since both admins are owners of the same Teams Channels
-customer suspects that the meetings created inside Teams will not sync on the Owner's calendar as it is being detected as Personal Calendars instead -
SG
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We use the task tracking in the planner app to add out of office, vacation etc.
This allows everyone in the team channel to access task tracking and switch to calendar view to see who is in the office etc.It would be great if you could change the default view to the schedule/calendar view.
Instead when you open planner it defaults to board view and you always have to switch to calendar view to see the status of everyone.
