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Level 5
May 16, 2017 6:00 PM UTC
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Calendars -- Ability to show planned duration even after actual is entered

It would be awesome to force the calendar to continue to show Planned Dates/Duration and not Actual or Projected Dates/Duration even after actual dates/hours are entered.

Having a calendar with the ability to show planned in one color with the actual or projected in another color would be awesome to show our executives and stakeholders.

Calendars are the best visual representation we can show them. Yes, I do realize there are gantt charts in the system that could show this -- but calendars really give laypeople the best understanding in my experience.

Right now, the calendar options are very limited:

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Level 2
Jul 27, 2018 1:32 PM UTC

I completely agree! Please add this feature Workfront!

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Kelly_Wehrmann
Level 9
Jul 26, 2018 2:54 PM UTC

I have to agree with Douglas...it would also be nice to have the ability to plot custom dates on the calendar. :)

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Level 2
Jul 26, 2018 2:01 PM UTC

100% agreed. The calendar feature needs to be expanded in order for it to be useful for our Project Management team.

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Level 2
Jul 25, 2018 2:49 PM UTC

This needs to be done ASAP. Honestly, this functionality should have been built out before anything was done for the new Home View for the recent Beta roll out. My department doesn't use calendars in Workfront at all because of the date limitation, so we're stuck with our old excel planning calendar for our editorial calendar. Now that we're bringing other content contributors from other departments into Workfront, we need it more than ever.

It'd be great if in addition to only viewing planned dates there was the option to take dates from custom forms as well.

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Level 5
Jun 11, 2018 2:51 PM UTC

We are having problems making our calendars (using actual dates) match our report summaries (using planned dates). We would love actual control over the calendar dates.

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Level 2
Jun 6, 2018 9:38 PM UTC

Yes. Yes. Yes. I use a calendar to see dates, currently all my dates are changing to the day a task is marked complete. I need to refer back to the dates the task took place. Seeing the "start on" "due on" dates seems like the absolute simplest use of a calendar .

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Level 4
Jun 5, 2018 1:54 PM UTC

YES PLEASEEEEEEEE

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Level 9
Feb 1, 2018 6:39 PM UTC

The lack of this functionality is why our organization DOES NOT USE CALENDAR - we really need this...

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Level 2
Jan 29, 2018 2:52 AM UTC

Having the option would be huge for our org. We have a lot of groups that could really take advantage of this. Ideally having the ability to choose what dates to use helps make the calendars more functional depending on the context.

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Level 2
Jan 29, 2018 2:01 AM UTC

Absolutely agree. People often update task status all at once for a few days worth of tasks, rendering a calendar quite inaccurate. Love to have a calendar that ONLY looks at planned dates or make that options.

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