Custom Calendars

We are using wrike across our team who are based in US and UK. So we have different public holidays. Eg: 17 April is a holiday in UK but not in US. So when I enter it in the account calendar it affects all tasks. Would be good to be able to create custom calendars and have the ability to choose the right calendar for your project.

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Hi Ram, thanks for sharing this, it's an interesting idea which would definitely be useful for international teams!

dwn フロント１

I am happy to be able to select a calendar according to the project.
However, it does not matter if you can not select a calendar according to the project.
If you can select holidays, attendance dates in bulk.
Now Wrike can set the holidays and working days one by one, but I want you to improve it because it is very troublesome.

dwn フロント１

Was self resolved.
We found that you can set additional attendances and holidays for the entire account with calendar account schedule.
Thank you for a wonderful feature, Wrike.

Stephanie Westbrook

@Nishimura hello again, glad to hear you found Custom Calendars!

David Salmon

Ram's point is important to us also because we are using Wrike for people in various countries. However, we think that an ability to set calendars for a group of users is what is needed, rather than choosing a calendar for a particular project because projects are completed by people in various locations who have different work schedules. So, for example, we would like to be able to set particular holidays for our "USA" group, set a different set of holidays for our "Germany" group, and have the appropriate working schedules applied based on who is assigned to the task.

As it is now, we cannot set up most holidays in our account calendar because they only apply to a subset of users. We have to assign holidays on an individual basis, which is somewhat cumbersome.

Thanks for considering this!

Permanently deleted user

Hi David, great idea. I can see how having calendars assigned to groups depending on their location could be helpful, considering people from multiple locations might be working on one project. This adds a lot of value to this discussion. Thanks!

Angelene Bungay

Hi, in addition to the above, I would like to view calendars dependent on a group of people. I currently use the screen to see who is on holiday over several months but I have to view one person at a time instead of being able to see a team all in one go

Kay Sirapat

My team is a mix between regions. There are 3 public calendars to follow. Each member belongs to only one type of public holiday calendar.

Each month we need to know time utilization of the entire team. Therefore time log report is used together with the total work days. Since our team consists of 50+ people it will be great to be able to export the summary of all team members' calendars into one Excel sheet.

Nicolas Villarreal

Please add the ability to define a calendar to a group of users instead of being able to limit to individuals.
The search field of the calendar should be a bit smarter, and allow filtering users, for example: userA & userB. or userA & userB & userC.

Thank you!

Tom Napper

+1 to the idea of individualized calendars for groups.

Would also add to this the ability to change the values in the exception drop-down to help us manage the various PTO categories we have.

David Salmon

We have the same need to change the values in the drop down to manage various PTO categories. Having dropdown choices that could be user definable and show up in different colors on calendars would be very helpful. We would like to be able to select for each dropdown whether it causes scheduled tasks to shift out or not.

Bailey Burke

+90 votes for our team

The ability to be able to set national holidays or company non working days that can be applied to different sets of people (groups are already set up within Wrike), would be very beneficial for our team as well.

The Admin ability to be able to set non-working days for staff is currently done, and would also like to add their stat holidays as a default. We cannot to do as a full team adjustment as some of our team members work in different countries and have different holidays. It would be also beneficial to add "stat holiday" to the drop down list of why it may be a non-working day that shows up.

Alisha Maxwell

We would like to customize the calendar format as well.

Export capabilities for printing/emailing/sharing
Yearly calendar view

Here is an example of the yearly calendar we use that would be helpful if Wrike produced something similar.

Sunjung Kim

Oh~ there are thousand of people want to use the customized calendar! What are you doing, Wrike!?

Michelle Flemming

My team would love to be able to build project specific calendars. This will allow capturing country specific holidays based on that project's member make up and allow for tracking for individual vacations impacting that particular project. This feature would have to be available at the Regular User level not confined to only the few admins.

Jeremey Davis

Coming up on the holidays. Would be nice to blank that out in the schedule automatically (like the feature in a well-known desktop project scheduling tool).

Andrea McCrossen

Is there a way to set Custom Calendar at the project level? We are a 24x7 operation, but of course not everyone works more than a shift. I need to see the project level work across the shifts and if I could make certain projects that demand 24x7 as we have many people working across it, it certainly would be easier to plan.

Right now I see my only option is to apply a 7d/wk calendar to everyone or nobody.

Elizaveta Bogdanova

@Andrea Hi, sorry for the long reply. Currently, you can't create custom calendars at the project level, but I wonder if Workload Charts can help in this situation? Workload Charts help manage your team members’ workload capacity, plan work allocation, and prioritize tasks based on their capacity. Please let me know what you think, I'll be happy to discuss 🙂

Gina Colombo

This is a feature that we are eager for as well. We require our team members to post their PTO on the shared calendar and it would be very useful to view the list of out of office dates for a particular group in order to confirm or deny time-off requests, plan around resource shortages, etc. Based on this thread and others I've read, this has been a request as far back as 2017. How much longer till it is added to the roadmap? Thanks!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Hi everyone, thanks a lot for your support for the suggestion!

I was wondering - could Wrike's Calendar feature help? Users can create tasks in the folder on which one of the Calendar layers is based and you'll have a layer showing who's on PTO or has a bank holiday. Please let me know what you think!

Robin Martin

I still think we need to be able to hard code public holidays by region/space. The Calendar only makes them visible, but does not help with scheduling around those days off, nor with utilization calculations. Many other tools offer this option so it's time to catch up, Wrike!!!

Elizaveta Bogdanova

Welcome to the Community @Robin Martin, and thank you for posting your feedback here. This post is very close to the threshold of 60 upvotes, and once it reaches it, we'll be providing a Product status here 👍

Brandon Dunham

Hello! My team and I am new to Wrike and am wondering how we could implement the event itself into a calendar? We have events as our own space and numerous pre and post event tasks. We just want to see about having a calendar that only shows show/event dates.

Thanks, community!

Brandon

Cansu Yetisgin

Hello @Brandon Dunham, welcome to the Community and Wrike!

How about creating a new calendar layer with and adding events as tasks in a specific folder that links to that layer? You can schedule the task with the same date(s) of the events.

Please let me know if this helps🙋🏻‍♀️

Kyle Martin

I have a number of custom calendars. Over all, they are working well. However, the one big problem I have is that i can block out time off for stat holidays, but noting shows on my calendars. I can plot any work on that day, but say for New Years day, for example, it doesn't say New Years on the calendar. It seems like a simple thing to add, and a big miss to not have this feature. On holidays that are not always on the same date, this becomes confusing and can easily be missed.

Rohan V

Thank you, @Kyle Martin, for taking the time to share your feedback. We will keep you in the loop if there are any further updates on this front.

Kyle Martin

Any updates on this? This seems like a basic function. When I look at all my calendars, I want to see the upcoming holidays on each of my calendars. See attached photo. The 16th is a provincial holiday. I don't feel like i should have to add this manually, to all my schedules.

Basudha Sakshyarika

Hi @Kyle Martin 😊

Thank you for your feedback. I checked, and this is currently not planned. However, your feedback has been shared with our Product team, and we will keep you in the loop with any updates. Thank you!