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Manage the calendar view

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For information about fast releases, see Enable or disable fast releases for your organization.

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The information in this article refers to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning, an additional capability from ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront.
You must have the following to access Workfront Planning:
  • A new Workfront package and license. Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront packages or licenses.
  • A Workfront Planning package.
  • Your organization’s instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Unified Experience.
For a complete list of requirements to access Workfront Planning, see Access overview.
For more information about Workfront Planning, see ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning overview.

You can display records and their fields in a calendar view, from the record type page.

For information about ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning views and how to manage them, see Manage record views.

Access requirements

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Products
  • ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront

  • ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning

ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront plan*

Any of the following Workfront plans:

  • Select
  • Prime
  • Ultimate

Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront plans

ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning package*

Any

For more information about what is included in each Workfront Planning plan, contact your Workfront account manager.

ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront platform

Your organization's instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Unified Experience to be able to access Workfront Planning.

For more information, see ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Unified Experience for Workfront.

ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront license*

Standard to create and delete views

Contributor or higher to update view elements

Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront licenses

Access level configuration There are no access level controls for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Workfront Planning
Object permissions

Manage permissions to a view

View permissions to a view to temporarily change the view settings or to duplicate it

Layout template

Users with a Light or Contributor license must be assigned a layout template that includes Planning.

Standard users and System Administrators have the Planning areas enabled by default.

*For more information about Workfront access requirements, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Manage a calendar view manage-a-calendar-view

Consider the following:

  • You can create a Calendar view only when you have at least two date fields associated with a record type. When you have one or no date fields associated with a record type, the Calendar view option is dimmed.

    You can select from record date fields, or lookup date fields from connected record or object types.

  • The following scenarios exist:

    • When both the Start and End dates have no values, the records do not display on the calendar
    • When the Start or the End dates have no value, the record displays as a one-day event
    • When the Start date is after the End date, the record does not display on the calendar.

To manage a calendar view:

  1. Go to the record type page for which you want to view the calendar.

  2. Create a calendar view, as described in the article Manage record views.

    Calendar view example

    The records associated with the record type you selected display as bars in a calendar. The color of the bars matches the color of the record icon, by default.

  3. Do one of the following to navigate through the calendar:

    • Click the left and right icons in the upper-left corner of the calendar or use the horizontal scroll to move backwards and forwards in the calendar.

    • Click Today in the upper-right corner to center the calendar to today’s date.

    • Select one of the following options from the time frame drown-down menu to update the time increments:

      • Month: Records display in a monthly calendar.

      • Week: Records display in the following areas:

        • Records that span over multiple days display at the top of the calendar.
        • Records that last a day or less, display in the lower half of the calendar view. If you selected to display the hour of he Start and End Dates, the record displays at the appropriate time within the day that it occurs.
  4. (Optional) Click the Full screen icon Open full screen icon to open the view in full screen, then the Exit full screen icon Exit full screen icon or Escape on your keyboard to exit the full screen.

  5. Update the following view elements as described in the subsections below:

Add filters

You can reduce the amount of information displayed on the screen by using filters.

Consider the following when working with filters in the calendar view:

  • The filters you create for a calendar view work independently from the filters in any other view applied to the same record type.

  • The filters are unique to the view that you select. Two calendar views of the same record type can have different filters applied to them.

  • Two users looking at the same calendar view see the same filter that is currently applied.

  • You cannot name the filters you build for a calendar view.

  • Removing filters removes them from anyone accessing the same record type as you and who displays the same view as you do.

  • You can filter by connected record fields or lookup fields.

  • You can filter by lookup fields that display multiple values.

To add a filter to a calendar view:

  1. Create a calendar view for a record type page, as described in the article Manage record views.

  2. Select a calendar view, then click Filters in the upper-right corner of the table.

  3. Click Add condition and add the following information:

    • Select a field that you want to filter by

    • Select an option (or a filter modifier) to define what kind of condition the field must meet

      The table below displays the available modifiers for each type of field.

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      Field type Modifiers
      Single-line, Paragraph, Formula

      Contains

      Does not contain

      Is

      Is not

      Is empty

      Is not empty

      Single-select

      Is

      Is not

      Is any of

      Is none of

      Is empty

      Is not empty

      Multi-select, People

      Has any of

      Has all of

      Is exactly

      Has none of

      Is empty

      Is not empty

      Number, Percentage, Currency

      =

      ≠

      <

      >

      ≤

      ≥

      Is empty

      Is not empty

      Date

      Is

      Is not

      Is after

      Is before

      Is between

      Is not between

      Is empty

      Is not empty

      Checkbox Is
    • Select a value for the field selected.

    Filter UI table view

    There is no limit to how many filtering conditions you can add.

  4. (Optional) Click Add condition to add another filtering option and repeat the above steps. The number of filters applied displays to the left of the Filters icon.

  5. Click the following operators to indicate how the filter conditions are joined and should be applied:

    • AND: All specified conditions must be met.
    • OR: Any of the specified conditions must be met. This is the default option.
    1. (Optional) Add additional AND or OR operators between multiple condition groupings.

      Multi-tiered filters in views

    The list of records is filtered automatically.

  6. (Optional) Click the x icon to remove a filter condition.

  7. (Optional) Click Filters to close the filters box.

Edit the calendar view settings

Update the calendar view settings to indicate what and how information displays in the view.

  1. Create a calendar view for a record type, as described in the article Manage record views.

  2. Click Settings.

  3. Click Date and time in the left panel, then select a Start date and an End date to display on the calendar. You can choose the default Start and End dates, or you can choose any date field available.

    The bars representing the records start on the date that you indicate for the Start date and end on the date corresponding with the End date.

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    NOTE
    • Records that have no values for the Start or the End dates or have a Start date later than the End date do not display in the calendar view.

    • If you display additional records using the Breakdown option, the Start and End dates are those of the main record. You cannot choose Start and End dates for the connected records in this area.

  4. Click Bar style in the left panel, to indicate what information you want to display on the record bars.

    The primary field (or title) of the record, as defined in the record’s table view, is selected by default.

  5. (Optional and conditional) If you added thumbnails to records, select the Thumbnail option to display the image associated with records in their record bar.

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    NOTE
    You must first add thumbnails in the table view before you can display them in the calendar view. For more information, see Add a thumbnail to a record.
  6. Click Add field, then click inside the Search fields box, and click the field you want to add.

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    • You must create the fields before you can add them to the record bars.

    • You must have at least one field selected. Name is selected by default.

    • You can add up to 5 fields.

    A preview of what the bars will look like on the calendar displays on the right.

    Bar style section in calendar view settings

  7. Click Color in the left panel, to customize the colors of the records on the calendar.

    Color panel on calendar view settings

  8. In the Set record color to section, select from the following options to set a color for the records:

    • Record type: The color of the record bars in the calendar matches the color of the record type you selected. This is the default option.
    • Field values: The color of the records matches the color of a field that you specify.
    • None: Records displays in a white bar.
  9. (Conditional) If you selected Field values for the record colors, select a field from the Match the record color to drop-down menu.

    Field selector drop-down menu for calendar view

    Only fields with color-coded options display in the drop-down menu.

    For example, multi-select or single-select fields can have color-coded options.

    If you do not have a field with color-coded options for the selected record type, this option is dimmed.

  10. Click Save.

    The records display in the calendar view with the specifications that you selected.

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