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Calendar

The Calendar view plots the board's dated tasks on a grid. This page covers the three zoom levels, creating and moving tasks, and the milestone strip.

Truetask Calendar view showing a month of dated tasks

Month, week and day

Three tabs at the top of the view switch between Month, Week and Day. The arrows step back and forward, and Today in the board tools tray or in the views menu jumps back to the current date.

Only tasks with a start date, a due date, or both appear. A task with both is drawn as a bar across its span; a task with one date sits on that day. Overdue tasks (past their due date and not completed) are tinted red. A board with no dated tasks shows No dated tasks.

Hovering a task shows its list, its dates, its priority, its assignees and its checklist progress. When a day holds more tasks than fit, See all tasks opens a searchable popover with the rest.

Creating a task

Click an empty spot on a day to open the composer. Type a title and press Enter. The composer also carries List, Date and Assign so you can place the task without opening it afterwards.

In Month view you can also press and drag across several days: the composer opens with that whole range as the task's start and due dates.

Moving and resizing

Drag a task to another day. A task with both dates keeps its duration: the start lands on the day you dropped it and the due date follows. A task with one date just moves that date.

Drag either end of a multi-day bar to change its start or its due date without moving the other.

Viewers cannot drag or create anything.

Milestones

Dated milestones appear as a strip above the days they fall on. Drag a milestone pill to move its date. Right-click a pill for Edit milestone and Delete milestone, and right-click an empty day for Add milestone here.

See Milestones.

Keyboard

With the focus on the grid (and not in a field):

KeyWhat it does
Left / RightMove the focus a day at a time.
Up / DownMove the focus a week at a time, in Month view.
EnterOpen the first task on the focused day, or start a new task there when the day is empty.
EscapeCancel the composer, or drop the focus.

Arrow keys are not wired up in Day view.

Filters

The Calendar respects the board's filters and its quick search, so narrowing the board narrows the grid. See Filters and search.

Truetask works the same on Truetask Cloud and on your own server. Pages and sections that apply to one model only are labelled.