Component Overview

Communicate about the activity and life of your company with the Events component. The Events component allows you to manage all your company events using SharePoint events.

You can filter events based on their source site, category, and also use audience targeting to display only the events relevant to your employees!

User Functionality

The Events component allows users to view upcoming events and key information. Clicking on an event opens the event details.

By clicking the "+" at the top right of the event card, you add the event to your Outlook calendar.

Use Cases

You can use this component to communicate about various types of events:

• Global company events such as announcements
• Social and community events within the company
• Training sessions for your employees
• Team events such as project milestones, demonstrations

Component Prerequisites

The Events component requires extended delegated permissions to function. It uses the following permissions:

• Sites.Read.All

To approve permission requests, please refer to the following article: Permission Approval. If the component returns no results, it is likely because permissions were not granted at installation.

Adding the Component

1. Open the SharePoint page editing mode by clicking edit at the top right of the page,

2. At the desired location, select the + button to open the component catalog,

3. Search or scroll through the catalog to select the Events component in the "Feeds" category,

4. The component is added at the desired location.

Component Configuration

There are 3 categories of settings available for the Events component:

1. Layout

2. Content Settings

3. Display

Generic customization options are not covered in this article. You will find details and advice on these options in the article Component Design Customization.

Content Settings

Content options allow you to filter and choose which events to display:

• Event Source

The event source lets you choose the scope of events displayed:

• Current site: events displayed come from the site of the page where you place the component.
• Site selection: Allows you to choose from all your sites the one you want to use as the event display source. You can search your sites and select those you want to use as the source.

• All sites: The component displays events from all your SharePoint sites.

• Categories

Categories allow you to filter the events to display

Available categories correspond to existing categories on the events available for display depending on the sources you have chosen.

• Audience

Audience targeting allows displaying certain events only using Microsoft's Modern Audiences. Modern Audiences is a Microsoft feature that lets you target your content to a specific population, using user groups created in your Office365 solution.

You can choose to enable audience targeting in each of your Events components to define whether you want to display events only to the relevant audiences.

Audience targeting allows events to be shown to a user only if they belong to the groups defined as the event's audience.

See Microsoft's documentation on Modern Audiences

How to Enable Audience Targeting on SharePoint?

1. Go to your intranet.
2. Click the gear icon at the top right of the page, then select "Site Contents".
3. Find the events list.
4. Click the three dots next to the "Events" title.
5. Select "Settings ". 
6. You will be redirected to the event list settings configuration page.

7. Click the "Audience Targeting Settings " button
    

   

   
    

8. Enable the "Enable audience targeting " option then confirm by clicking "OK". 

9. When you create new events, a new field named "Audience" will appear
    

   

10. You can then enter the desired users or user groups.

11. After applying this targeting to your events, you must also enable the " Activate audience targeting " button in the Jint events component settings.