Possible to edit background colour in Calendar View?

Jyrki Karasvirta

Hi All. Here is my use case: we are using Smartsheet as our activity planning calendar for a team of dozen people. We have focus periods lasting from few weeks up to one month.  We would like to communicate that e.g. May 1 to May 23 is time for Focus Area#1, and from May 24 to June 16 for Focus Area #2, and so on. 

Is there a way to set these Focus Areas visible on the Calendar View by editing the day-level background colour on the Calendar View  (like now the days of the current month have a white background, the days of the previous or next month have a grey background)?

Chris McKay

Hi Jyrki,

It's not possible to change the background colour of the days, but you can set the Taskbar colour (manually or via conditional formatting) which will determine the colour of the task itself on the calendar.

The image below should provide an indication of what to expect.

If you want a clue as to how I created the Parent level tasks, I provided an explanation here: 

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/conditional-formatting-parentchild-kanban-cards