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Categories in Group Calendars
Hi all We use group/team site calendars heavily within our organisation and departments. Up until recently, users have been able to tag/categorise calendar entries within group calendars that the...
There is a kind of a workaround for this:
- Create an appointment in your personal calendar with the category you need.
- Then drag the appointment from your personal calendar to the group calendar. This works in the installed (classic) Outlook app where you can show 2 calendars side by side
- The appointment with the category is now copied to the group calendar.
- From there on you are able to edit or copy appointments with this category and they will keep the assigned category.
Downside: additional actions required and you can not edit the category for an appointment
The strange thing is that this shows that categories are available in group calenders... but you just can not edit or select them.
This is the correct way to display Group Categories. You have the ability to manage them and choose specific colors.
- How did you get to that second screen shot?
- Please consider trying out Virto Calendar, which offers a 30-day free trial for both Teams and SPFx apps. It is a great alternative to the Outlook Group Calendar.
SergiVirto
Where exactly did you find this ?- This is Virto Calendar, which manages categories within Outlook Groups.
