Planner & Calendar are a NoGo
Konstantin Knapp
I wanted to centralise for my team the planner/calendar and just use it in clickup. But I encountered the following issues:
- Both Tasks and Events needs to be able to automatically add google meet link for the planner and calendar.
- In the planner it has to be possible to see completed tasks, using the planner and calendar complicates the entire process and is just a pain to use.
- In the calendar view it has to be possible to see events from the Planner. It is a pain not being able to do so.
- Events need to also show in Task Lists because its time that the team spends and needs to be tracked.
- The text size in the planner and calendar is not readable, it always cuts parts fo the title, this is very basic to get right.
We will not spend time creating automations to circumvent these issues. Not worth the time nor money.
Due to this we decided it is a NoGo to use clickup planner/calendar to plan all the tasks and events.
It would be great that you resolve these issues, I am sure I am not the only one.
Thank you!
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Ricardo Clerigo
Hey Konstantin how's your day going? I lead the planner team here at ClickUp.
- Automatically add google meet link
This already happens as soon as you add someone else to the invite. Let me know if that's not clear and I can record a quick video.
- Seeing completed tasks
That's good feedback and one lots of other folks want too. I've started a canny for it here https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/see-complete-tasks-in-planner - if you can share more about why it's painful that tasks hide after you complete them? are you trying to keep track of what's done or not for example?
- Seeing events in calendar list
You can do this, expand the right sidebar for overdue tasks and look at the bottom of your screen. You can toggle on/off calendars there. Can you share a bit more about your use-case here as well? What is it you want to use events + tasks side by side to do?
- Tracking time spent on meetings
We have a plan for this that we haven't made public just yet. If you're willing, I can invite you to our calendar early-adopter chat community which is a workspace where me and the team talk to customers and show early versions of what's coming up - in exchange you have to provide feedback.
- Text size
This is hard to get right - what you say is too small, others say it's not small enough. We will eventually provide a few levels to choose from, but for now, you can always adjust your browser settings to zoom to 110% which some folks prefer.
Let me know if you ever plan to come back to ClickUp and give planner another go.
Konstantin Knapp
Hi Ricardo Clerigo,
Thank you for the fast reply. I appreciate the fast response.
- Yes, but only works with events not with tasks, correct?
- I left some feedback.
- Thank you, worked out. So here its more like Planner and Calendar needs to be the same not two different types of calendars. The logic is that one wants to see the full schedule so if I was missing the events in the calendar view I am missing information and maybe I schedule another task although there might be an event already planner or a break time. So now I can see the events in the calendar view. But I am not able to create an event only a task. So if I am using the calendar view and want to make an event I need to go to the planner, that extra step is counterintuitive.
- Sure, happy to provide feedback. Here apart from tracking the time of the event, it would help a lot if tasks would be able to have google meet links or that events are also in the task lists, then it can also be programmed to be reoccurring events.
- Looks like something got improved, today everything seems readable. The issue was mainly with tasks that are like 5-15minutes, the cell height was too compressed and it would cut the title. Maybe there can be an option to wrap the text for very long titles.
- I also had the following dilema. So I wanted to put lunch breaks in the planner, I can do them to be reoccurring but let say that one day I have to move that specific block back 30minutes, if I try to change that event it also changes all other events from the same reoccurring block. Not sure if I did not see some option to adjust one block.
We still use clickup but just not the planner and calendar.