Calendar View

The Calendar view displays your project's timeline as a familiar monthly grid. Task start and finish dates appear as colored markers on their respective days, and holidays and team events are overlaid on the same calendar — giving you a unified view of project activity and non-working time.

Opening the Calendar View

Click the Calendar tab in the application titlebar (alongside Gantt, Dashboard, etc.). The current month is shown by default, with today's date highlighted.

Monthly Calendar Grid

The calendar renders a standard monthly grid — 7 columns (Sun–Sat or Mon–Sun depending on locale) and 4–6 rows of day cells. Each cell shows the day number. The grid is read-only; you edit tasks via the Gantt view or Task Editor.

Day cells display:

• Colored task dots — One dot per task that starts or finishes on that day, using the task's bar color (or theme default). Hover over a dot to see the task name in a tooltip.
• Today highlight — Today's cell has a distinct background color (typically a soft accent) to anchor your current position in the schedule.
• Holiday highlight — Days marked as holidays are tinted red. The holiday name appears as a small label or tooltip.
• Team event markers — Events appear as colored labels or badges, using each event's configured color.

Navigating Months

• Click the ← left arrow to go to the previous month.
• Click the → right arrow to go to the next month.
• The month and year label between the arrows updates as you navigate.
• Click Today (if shown) to jump back to the current month.

Holidays

Holidays serve two purposes: they appear as red-highlighted days on the Calendar view, and they are treated as non-working days by the auto-scheduler (CPM). Tasks will not be scheduled to start, end, or count duration through a holiday day.

Adding a Holiday

1. Open the SCHEDULE tab in the ribbon.
2. Click Holidays.
3. In the Holidays panel, click Add Holiday.
4. Enter the Date and a Name (e.g., "Christmas Day", "Diwali", "Bank Holiday").
5. Click Save. The day is immediately highlighted red on the Calendar and shaded on the Gantt timeline.

To remove a holiday, open the Holidays panel and click the delete icon next to the entry. The scheduler recalculates on next auto-schedule run.

Team Events

Team events are named occasions that appear on the calendar and as vertical marker lines on the Gantt timeline. Unlike holidays, events do not block scheduling — they are informational overlays. Use them for:

• Sprint planning or retrospective dates.
• Company all-hands meetings.
• Client presentation days.
• Team offsites or away days.
• Product launch dates.
• Regulatory submission deadlines (as events rather than task deadlines).

Adding a Team Event

1. Click the SCHEDULE tab → Events, or use INSERT → Add Event.
2. Enter the Date for the event.
3. Enter a Name (e.g., "Sprint 4 Demo", "Company Offsite").
4. Pick a Color from the color selector — this color is used for the calendar marker and the Gantt vertical line.
5. Click Save. The event appears immediately on both the Calendar view and as a vertical colored line on the Gantt timeline.

How Events Appear on the Gantt

On the Gantt timeline, team events render as thin vertical lines in the event's chosen color, with a small label at the top of the line. They sit in front of task bars as a visual overlay. Multiple events on the same day have their lines stacked or offset slightly.

How Holidays Affect Scheduling

When auto-schedule (CPM) is active, the scheduler treats each holiday as a non-working day:

• Task duration counts only working days — holidays are skipped over.
• If a predecessor's finish date falls on a holiday, the successor is pushed to the next working day.
• If you drag a task bar so it would start on a holiday, the bar snaps to the next working day.

Weekends are also non-working by default. You can toggle weekend visibility in the Gantt via the VIEW ribbon → Show Weekends, but this is a display toggle — weekends are always excluded from duration calculations.

Practical Examples

Sprint Planning View

Add events for each sprint boundary: "Sprint 1 Start", "Sprint 1 End / Sprint 2 Start", etc. Navigate to the planning month on the calendar to see all sprint transitions at a glance alongside task markers.

Company Holidays Setup

At project start, add all public holidays for the year. For a UK project: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Early May Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, Summer Bank Holiday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day. The scheduler then avoids these dates automatically in all CPM calculations.

Team Offsite Planning

Add a 2-day offsite as two consecutive events (or a single event if one day). Check the calendar to ensure no critical-path tasks are scheduled to finish during the offsite — if they are, reschedule them in the Gantt view.