Outlook Color Categories not showing in Synced Sharepoint Calendar

Hi Devin,

You can try the following steps:

1. Go to the Calendar list > List Settings > Add from existing site columns in Columns section > select “Categories” column, then your Calendar list will have this field.

2. Connect this Calendar list to your Outlook, then you can add a new event item with a Category from Outlook. The SharePoint list synced event item Categories field will display the color.

Regards,

Tisky

This does not work. I have categories setup in sharepoint calendar assigned to each event. After i sync to outlook, the categories do not appear on the task in outlook, only in sharepoint. 

If i create color categories in outlook calendar and assign to events, those do not ahow up on the events when synced to sharepoint.

Hi Devin,

We can use the SharePoint built-in calendar overlays to customize color code Calendars in SharePoint Online. However, actually, it’s a calendar view. It’s not feasible to sync to Outlook. The color category set in Outlook cannot be synced to SharePoint Online Calendar either.

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Thanks for your understanding.

Allan