Why is the Calendar view so hard to work with???

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Why is the solution to get the following to work… so unintuitive???

  • When the order is complete, change the color on the calendar view to green

Why is this so hard?

Having to create a separate field just to hold a color word???

  • Why can’t a formatting rule apply here - like everywhere else?
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I guess because it was abandoned? Same with Onboarding

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@SkrOYC Onboarding and the calendar view have been abandoned? Does this mean they will not longer be receiving updates to these features?

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You can add a virtual column to the table containing your dates with an expression similar to what you want to use in your formatting rule. Something like:

IF([Order Status] = “Complete”, “Green”, “Red”)

I can’t speak as to why you can’t use a formatting rule for this, but I can say that I use the calendar implementation with extensive color formatting using an extra column, and it works well for me.

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“Abandoned” is perhaps too strong a word. “Deprioritized” would probably be better. Still, it’s reasonable to expect neither onboarding nor calendar views will receive too much developer attention in the foreseeable future.

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Helpful - thank you good sir!

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That’s why I never used and recommend the calendar views to use in AppSheet app.

Calendar, Chart, Card and Calendar views, those are something like “we put seeds on the ground, but forgot to put water on it.” kinds of things to me.

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