Birthdays & Milestones

The Birthdays & Milestones web part for Sprocket 365 highlights upcoming birthdays, work anniversaries, and new starters so colleagues can see who to celebrate on your intranet. Each person appears as a card with a days-left (or Day N for new starters) badge, profile photo, name, occasion, and date.

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Renamed from Whats Up: This web part was previously called Whats Up. In the toolbox it appears as Birthdays & Milestones - Sprocket 365. Existing pages keep working after upgrade; only the name and feature set have changed.

Features

• Birthdays - Upcoming birthdays from Microsoft Graph or SharePoint User Profile; age is not shown.
• Work anniversaries - Upcoming anniversaries based on hire date (or a custom profile field), shown as “X Years Anniversary”.
• New starters — Colleagues within 7 days of their hire date, with a Day 1–Day 7 badge and 'Welcome aboard!' label; new starters are listed first (most recently hired at the top).
• Celebrate! - When you have a birthday or anniversary today, the web part will play a confetti animation automatically (once per day per browser) and shows a 'Celebrate!' button on your card to replay it.
• Theming - Days badge uses the site primary color in light themes and secondary in dark section themes; supports light and dark section styling.
• Custom CSS - Optional Custom Styles and Custom CSS Class on the web part container.

Calendar events removed

Earlier versions of Whats Up could show items from SharePoint calendar lists and included a command bar (“More events” / “Add new event”). That is no longer supported in Birthdays & Milestones.

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Looking for calendar events? Use the Calendar web part or the Events web part on your page alongside Birthdays & Milestones. Existing pages that had calendar settings saved will still load; those properties are ignored and are not shown in the property pane.

How to configure the web part

1. If you are not already in edit mode on your page, select Edit on the top right of the page.
2. Select Edit details at the top of the web part.
3. In the web part toolbox, search for Birthdays & Milestones - Sprocket 365.
4. Configure the groups below. Standard Sprocket options (for example Title, Show in Panel) work like other Sprocket 365 web parts.

Display options

Setting	Description
Show sample data	Preview cards with sample people (useful in edit mode).
Maximum number of items	Cap for how many cards load before Show more (combined list, then sorted).

Birthdays

Setting	Description
Show Birthdays	On or off.
Data source	MS Graph or SharePoint User Profile.
Custom Birthday Field Name	Optional profile property instead of the default.
Department / Office filter	Limit which people appear.
Next X days filter	Only birthdays within this window (slider).
Empty fields filter	Hide people missing selected profile fields.

Anniversaries

Setting	Description
Show Anniversaries	On or off.
Data source	MS Graph or SharePoint User Profile.
Anniversary field	Profile field for the anniversary date (e.g. hireDate, joinDate, or a custom field).
Department / Office filter	Same as birthdays.
Next X days filter	Window for upcoming anniversaries.
Empty fields filter	Same as birthdays.

New starters

Setting	Description
Show New Starters	On or off.
Data source	MS Graph or SharePoint User Profile.
Hire date field	Field used to calculate the 7-day window.
Department / Office filter	Same as birthdays.
Empty fields filter	Same as birthdays.

See also

• Calendar web part - for SharePoint calendar list events on a page.
• Events web part - for modern site and group calendars.