Choosing the calendar in which to create events

[Massimiliano Solaini]

Hello,

I have encountered a possible problem. In Google Calendar, even if I select a calendar other than the main one of the Google account, when I drag a card to create the event, the event is created in the main calendar of the account and not in the one I selected. Is there a way to change this?

[Alexandros Mathopoulos · Accepted solution]

Hi @Massimiliano Solaini!

Appreciate the feedback! This is something we may consider in the future. Right now we are only focusing on your Google Calendar's default calendar as it is the one we find users usually use to book time for them to work on particular tasks. 

[Maître Juliette Courteau]

Hello, just a word to let you know I have the same issue. It would be really helpfull to be able to select a particular calendar.

Thanks a lot

[James Hardwick]

The type of people that care enough about organization/syncronization between Trello and their calendar are also probably going to be the types of people who use multiple calendars for organization. Without the ability to select the calendar added to, this is unfortunately a useless feature. 

[Alexandros Mathopoulos]

Hi James, Maitre, and others! Appreciate the continued feedback! Very much hear yall! 

Could yall elaborate on some examples where you would want to schedule time to work on a task/card on a separate calendar than your default Google calendar? Particular examples would be super helpful to us as we consider this!

[James Hardwick]

@Alexandros Mathopoulos my default calendar is my "Work" calendar, but I maintain all sorts of different calendars, e.g. Birthdays, Health, Studying, House, Personal, etc. This allows me to color-code them and keep them visually distinct in my calendar, or even turn some off entirely to remove them from view.

I have a Trello board that's sort of a brainstorming session for my days/weeks/months ahead. It contains lists of cards that would apply to any/all of those calendars above EXCEPT "Work". I'd love to do all my brainstorming in Trello and simply add the cards to the appropriate calendar while I'm prioritizing. But if I can only add them to my "Work" calendar, that's a definite no-go. That needs to be strictly work related else I might miss something important. 

[James Hardwick]

Also, if I go ahead and add the card to my calendar anyways, and then I go into my Google Calendar and manually change it to the correct calendar (which is too much hassle to be worthwhile at scale, but I tried it anyways), then it's correctly reflected in the Trello app but becomes completely un-editable. 

[Alexandros Mathopoulos]

Thank you @James Hardwick 

Appreciate the feedback and detailed example! Something we will look into.