Widget overview

Displays upcoming company events created in SharePoint on the user's Dashboard.

You can filter events based on their originating site, category, and also audience to display to your coworkers only the events that are relevant to them!

User Functionality

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

By clicking on the "+" symbol in the top right corner of the event record, you can add the event to your Outlook calendar.

Use cases

You can use this widget to communicate on different event formats:

• Global corporate events such as announcements ;
• Social and community events within the company ;
• Training courses for your employees ;
• Team events such as project milestones and demonstrations.

Widget configuration

There are three categories of settings available for the My events widget:

• News sources ;
• Categories ;
• Advanced settings.

News sources

You can choose between two event display:

• All websites: the widget displays events from all your SharePoint sites.

• A list of websites: allows you to choose from all your sites (up to 25 are displayed - if more you will have to use the search bar) which one(s) you take as the source of event display. You can search through your sites and select those you want to use as a source. Once selected, the sites appear below the "Add Sites" button and can be easily removed by clicking the trash bin button (🗑️).

Categories

The categories allow you to filter the events to display:

The available categories correspond to the existing categories of the events on Sharepoint, based on the sources you have selected.

Advanced settings

Advanced settings allows you to display certain events using Microsoft's Modern Audiences. Modern Audiences is a Microsoft feature that offers to target your content to a specific population, using the user groups created in your Microsoft 365 solution.

You have the option to activate audience targeting in each of your My events widget, to define if you want to display events only to the concerned audiences.

Audience targeting allows an event to appear to a user only if they are part of the groups defined as the event's audience.

Refer to Microsoft documentation on Modern Audiences for more information.