Default Calendar View to "today"

Brandi T

The calendar view is an excellent feature, but it can be confusing when you open it up and you are in the right month but the wrong year! With the calendar view, the default seems to be to open to the month in which the first item is logged, but it would be very helpful to have a feature that allows it to be changed to open to "today" or "current month". This is in line with the functioning of other calendars we are all used to accessing (outlook, google, ical, etc.), so it would be helpful if the Smartsheet calendar was consistent with standard practice.

Smartsheet, please add this as an option in calendar view settings!

Johnny Addison

Wholly agree! The interesting part is that it doesn't happen on all of my sheets, but the ones where this occurs drive me insane. @Genevieve P. is there any discussion or movement on this internally?

Genevieve P.

Hi @Johnny Addison

Where the Calendar View opens up to will depend on the content you have in your sheet:

• If you have dates both in the past and in the future, the Calendar View will open to Today's Date.
• If you only have dates in the past, it will open to the oldest/earliest recorded date.
• If you only have dates in the future, it will open to the closest recorded date to Today.

There currently isn't a setting to force the Calendar to always open on Today, so thank you for voting on this Idea!

Cheers,
Genevieve

natekumar

Just wanted to add that @Genevieve P. 's comment inspired a hack/workaround which is to include a dead row in your sheet with a date that is far into the future. Obviously this is still inferior to a proper native implementation and won't be suitable for sheets which can't afford the downstream impact of an unnecessary row, but this relatively small cost allows me to always open my sheet on today's date now!

JulieCallahan

Hi,

I've been directed to this thread as a solution to a problem that I am having, but this hack or fix is not working. I have a sheet with a Calendar view that is integrated into a dashboard/page that serves as a informational page for our department. This Calendar View sheet contains dates in the past and future, and the calendar consistently opens to November, 2024 upon page load in a browser.

I've tried fixing the date in Gantt view, forcing the sheet to lookup =TODAY(), adding dates in the future and past, but the launch behavior is consistently stuck in November, 2024. This is pretty basic function for a calendar, I'm not sure why it is not already integrated into a calendar view to always get and display from today's date. Can anyone help me fix this?

I have over 100 people in our org, many of whom will not adopt this calendar as a tool because they have to fix it each time they open our org dashboard page.

JulieCallahan

Alright, I am coming to update my situation, in the case someone else in the future runs into this issue. I followed the instructions for publishing a calendar view and ended up with this problem. I was collaborating with a colleague on this dashboard, so we were both attempting to integrate this new calendar into a web widget on an organizational dashboard. Neither of us could fix the problem, so I started over from scratch.

I stepped through the steps again, and copied a link from the 'publish' settings with the permissions I needed and this seemed to have solved my issues. I'm not sure why I was stuck in November, 2024. Maybe Cher and I both share a strong desire to turn back time.