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!