The Calendar View shows scheduled parent tasks on a month or week calendar. Use it to review timing, open task details, and reschedule tasks when your permissions allow date editing. You can only drag and drop the start date and end date object.
How This Fits In OrbitalWP
Calendar View is one of the shared task views on the Task Views page, alongside Board View, List View, and Timeline View. It uses the same task access rules, shared filters, and task details panel as the other task views.
Calendar View is date-oriented. It displays parent tasks that have a start date, a due date, or both. A task with only one of those dates appears as a one-day event. Tasks without either date do not appear on the calendar.
Where To Find It
In the WordPress admin, open Orbital > Kanban & Timeline. The page heading is Task Views. Select Calendar View from the view switcher.
Before You Start
- You need access to the Kanban & Timeline task views before you can open Calendar View.
- The tasks you see depend on your task permissions, assignment, task-specific overrides, and the current filters.
- A task needs a start date or due date before it can appear on the calendar.
- Date dragging requires task edit access. Read-only events can still be opened for details, but their dates cannot be dragged.
- Drag-to-reschedule works on desktop only. On touch devices, open a task and edit its dates.
What You Can Do
- Switch between Month and Week calendar modes.
- Move through time with Previous, Today, and Next.
- Select a task event to open its task details panel.
- Use filters such as Preferences, Categories, Tags, Related Posts, Parent Tasks, and, when available, Assignees.
- Use Closed Tasks options to Show All Tasks, Hide Closed Tasks, or Show Only Closed Tasks.
- Drag editable calendar events to reschedule dates.
Basic Workflow
- Open Orbital > Kanban & Timeline.
- Select Calendar View.
- Choose Month or Week.
- Use Previous, Today, and Next to move to the date range you want.
- Adjust Preferences or filters if the calendar is showing too many or too few tasks.
- Select an event to open task details, or drag an editable event on desktop to reschedule it.
Important Controls And Settings
The Calendar header includes Month, Week, Previous, Today, and Next controls. Month shows a full month grid. Week shows one week based on the site’s configured start of week.
The shared filter controls remain available in Calendar View. Preferences includes My Tasks and Closed Tasks options. Categories, Tags, Related Posts, and Parent Tasks appear when there are matching accessible tasks. Assignees appears only for users who can view all tasks.
When filters are active, the filter status area shows the number of active filters and a Clear button. Clearing filters resets the shared task-view filters.
The Group tasks by: control and Hide Uncategorized Lane preference apply to Board View and are hidden when Calendar View is active.
Administrators can use Orbital > Plugin Settings > Kanban / Timeline > Filter Preferences to control Remember Filter Settings. When enabled, shared task-view filter selections can persist between page loads.
What Affects What You See
Calendar View only displays tasks that are in your permitted task set. Two users can open the same Calendar View and see different events because task visibility depends on permissions, assignments, task-specific overrides, and filters.
Closed task preferences can hide or show closed tasks. If Hide Closed Tasks is selected, closed tasks do not appear in the normal calendar results. Show All Tasks includes open and closed tasks. Show Only Closed Tasks limits the view to closed tasks.
Filters match across the active filter types. If multiple filter types are selected, a task can appear when it matches any active filter type.
Calendar View renders parent task events. Subtasks are not ordinary calendar events, although a parent event can show a subtask count when the task has subtasks.
Deeper Notes
For multi-day events, only the true start day, true due day, or a single-day event can be dragged. The middle days of a long event are display-only.
Dragging the start side of a parent task can shift subtasks to preserve their relative timing. Dragging the due-date side updates the parent due date without moving descendants. When a move affects subtasks, Orbital may ask you to confirm with Modify subtasks?, then Cancel or Continue.
If subtasks cannot be loaded safely before a cascade move, Orbital blocks the move instead of silently moving only part of the task tree.
Common Problems
I cannot see Calendar View. Ask an administrator to check whether you have access to the Kanban & Timeline task views, a task-specific override, or an assigned task that grants access.
The calendar is empty. Calendar View shows No scheduled tasks. Tasks without start or due dates still appear on the Kanban board. Add a start date or due date to the task, or check whether filters and closed-task preferences are hiding it.
A task is missing. The task may have no start date or due date, may be filtered out, may be closed while Hide Closed Tasks is selected, may be a subtask, or may not be visible to your user account.
I cannot drag an event. Dragging is disabled on touch devices, read-only events, locked date fields, and the middle days of multi-day events. Open the task details panel and check whether the start date or due date fields are editable.
A date change was blocked. Orbital blocks invalid date ranges, date edits without task edit access, and some subtask cascade moves that cannot be loaded safely. Ask an administrator to check your task edit permissions or approval locks if the fields are readonly.
I do not see the Assignees filter. The Assignees filter is only shown to users who can view all tasks.