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Option to colour specific days on Timeline view (not the records themselves, but on the UI)

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TomS
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer
Status: New Ideas
What is the proposed idea/solution?

I use the Timeline view to plan staff resourcing, and I need to see when weekends are so that we can plan around them. The single letters representing days are very small, and visually it takes very intentional cross-checking between the entries and the records and the days on the timeline at the top, which makes the process a lot more fiddly.

Currently, the only way to do this visually in the way I'd need it is to create a record for a weekend and colour it based on the day of the week and tag it in every swim lane, however, creating an empty record purely for a weekend could potentially cause data issues. It'd be easier if we had the options to colour dates on the UI.

How does is solve the user problems?

People could track regular deadlines, weekends, public holidays etc on timelines without the need to create a record (potentially causing data issues) to do so. 

2 Comments
DisraeliGears01
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

Potential workaround for you for the moment...

Add a formula field to the table with your dates with DateTimeFormat({Datefield}, 'DDDD'), and then have it output as single select field. It should assign every date "Monday, Tuesday," etc and you can color those single select outputs. Make the Sat/Sun the same color, and then you can color by record to show those records which are weekend days.

If you're already coloring your records with In-progress tags or whatnot this could be problematic, but just a thought!

TomS
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I don't want to colour the records, but the UI itself, I'm afraid! Whether the date is a weekend or not needs to inform whether a record is created in the first place.

It's worth noting that weekends used to be shaded on the Gantt chart view btw.