How to disable 'Focus Time' when adding planner cards?

[Tracy Fahrion]

I've been using Trello for a while now, and it's worked wonderfully for keeping track of my projects.

I recently started using it more as a planner, but I've run into a snag. When I add cards to my planner board, they automatically include a "focus time" setting, and I can't seem to find an option to turn it off.

Does anyone know how I can toggle this default "focus time" setting off so I can add cards without it? With this setting it blocks others from setting up meetings, chatting, etc. I want to keep those options available.

I've tried turning it off in various places, but not finding where:
Trello (not under planner settings, nor card settings, not using any add-ons, am using custom fields)
Google Calendar (not under calendar settings)

Within Google Calendar, if I edit individual entries showing the "headphones" icon showing it's "focus time," I can edit and set to "default visibility" which will then allow folks to send meeting requests but I'd rather not have to do this for each individual event.

Thank you so much in advance for any assistance.
-Tracy

[Luciana Munhoz]

Hi Tracy, welcome to the community.

The Planner was designed to help you create dedicated focus times for when you plan to work on your tasks. This is why, when you add a card to the Planner, a focus time is automatically added. I'm afraid that can't be turned off on Trello side.

You can learn more about the planner here: https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/trello-planner/

[Mary Wandrei]

Well, that seems like a bug, not a feature.  Could Atlassian put Focus Time default on the list of things to change, either as a setting adjustable for the whole app, for a particular board, or at least make it opt in rather than no way to opt out? 

[Luciana Munhoz]

Hi Mary, welcome to the community.  I recommend clicking on the ” megaphone” icon on your Trello board (at the top right corner)to share your thoughts about the planner directly with our dev team. It will be taken into consideration and we appreciate your feedback. At the moment, unfortunately, there isn’t an option to opt out.