Can't figure out how to search / open another person's calendar
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Thanks for the feedback.
In the new OWA calendar experience, you can open another person’s calendar to clicking on the “Import calendar” link in the left panel and in the dialog, click on the “Import from directory” option. This will let your search and open another person’s calendar.
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Anonymous
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Can't figure out how to add someone else in my organization to "my calendars". I have to keep switching to the old version of outlook to do it.
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Anonymous
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I use to be able to search other user calendar easily but is very inconvenient to add going to more step. please allow easier access to do so.
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Ted
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Thanks for adding function. But What I want to do is see the calendar just after typing my coworker's name. In old version, I do not need to import before find a calendar. Please restore this function.
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Yuan
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Whenever I need to see other people's schedule so I can set up a meeting, I have trouble finding it when I use the new version. It was easier with the old version.
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Ted
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Thanks for adding function. But What I want to do is see the calendar just after typing my coworker's name. In old version, I do not need to import before find a calendar. Please restore this function.
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Anonymous
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I can´t fin the option "Search Calendar"
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Tushar
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The new outlook does not provide a way to view other person's calendar
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Ted
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You need to be able to search for someone's calendar - currently I can't see a way to do that.
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Anonymous
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I hope the client version of the Outlook UI can be realized.
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Ted
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In old version, I can check the other person's calendar just after searching by search box. In new version, I can not do the same.
Now I register the other person first, then it possible check the other person. But the old version is much useful.
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Brendan
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I cannot figure out how to show other colleague's calendars on my own calendar in the new version.
In the old version I would simply search their name and their calendar would be added to the month view and I could easily see availabilities. In the new version, searching their name just searches for their name in my own calendar, and I can't see any other option to make their calendars visible
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Daniel
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In the new Outlook, I can't quickly see my coworkers' calendars via the search box. That visibility is my primary way of booking meetings, which is why I switched back to the old Outlook.
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Sam C
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It seems the search box has completely disappeared on my view. I can no longer search for events on my calendar nor search for peoples' calendars to look at.
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Ted
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When I check the other person's calendar, do I need to register him/her?
Registration takes me time, so I hate this specification.
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Anonymous
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I really valued the ability to add a colleagues calendar via ther search box previously at the top of the left hand column. This has gone and the search box doesn't offer this function. I cannot find how to do this and it's led me to return to the old view.
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Ted
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In old version, I can check the other person's calendar just after searching by search box. In new version, I can not do the same.
Now I register the other person first, then it possible check the other person. But the old version is much useful.
please restore this function. -
Andie Cockerill
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Help me see my colelagues calendars!
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Anonymous
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It's hard to navigate, and an important calendar's contents are all lost/unable to view.
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Palmer, Shane D [ITSYS]
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The terminology for adding a calendar in "the New Outlook" has got to change. After many failed attemps at figuring out how to add a calendar over the last 6 months, I finally decided to try to figure it out and it took me an hour of reading the help and comments in this post to figure out how to open another user's calendar.
To help those that come here trying to figure out how to do it, here are the instructions that Microsoft should provide. Click on "Import calendar" in the sidebar under the mini calendar, then select "From directory", then type the user's name, then click on their icon from the search results drop-down list, then click Add. Unfortunately, you have no control over which calendar group to add it to.
Microsoft has taken the terminology of "Open calendar" and changed it to "Import calendar". Being an IT admin for over 20 years, import has always meant to permanently add something to your current document. Please look up the definition of import. Simply Google "define import" and you will find the third definition for the verb is: "COMPUTING transfer (data) into a file or document." Opening a shared calendar is not transferring data into my document (a.k.a my calendar). Open has always meant open another file for viewing and/or editing. So putting the Open shared calendar function under "Import calendar" is very confusing (even to a veteran IT admin). At the very least it should be moved under the "Add calendar" option under the mini calendar, because I kept clicking on that many times thinking that is where I should go. But Microsoft's strange ideas are that creating a new calendar should be called "Add calendar" and that opening a calendar should be called "Import calendar". Not to mention, in addition to not matching the terminology of the old web client, it doesn't match the terminology of the native Windows and Mac clients. How about going back to the good old terminology of New and Open which EVERYBODY understands.
Before figuring this out I was always switching back to the old Outlook view, opening a calendar the easy way, by right-clicking on the calendar group I wanted to add it to and selecting open calendar which gave you a simple dialog of From Directory or From Internet, with a search field to type in.
Also, as alluded to by this feature request, and many other comments, if you are going to radically change an interface like this and have people beta test it, you need to have the help documentation updated for the new interface.
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Anonymous
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I am a designated person on my bosses calendar however when I am in the new version it will not let me add items to his calendar. I have to switch back to the old version in order to add appointments.
