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Winshen Liu
I'm happy to share.Project management software is great and SO helpful for an abundance of reasons, but only if the everyone is bought in, and frankly, it's often a tough sell; especially when it creates a redundancy.When you set a deadline for a project or action, it's easy to forget that exists the minute you leave Hive. Everyone here (and in most offices I have worked in) is fully bought in on G Suite and use our calendars religiously to help keep us on track with deadlines (push notifications to all devices is the main factor there). Unfortunately Hive has now created a redundancy for us in that we have to input each deadline twice (once in Hive, once in G Calendar) and I fear this will cause a massive uphill battle for me trying to keep the team on track with using the software.I love Hive for so many reasons and want to continue using it, but if I can't keep my team fully bought in then all the other amazing features won't be enough, and I feel the calendar sync may be the linchpin here.Please keep me updated on the status of this feature being added.Thanks,Tara @ Camas Consulting"2 way sync would be most useful for me to help me manage resources. Meetings and planning require resources. Hive resources are ineffective if I cannot see all of the resources that are being expended (ie. Calendar). This is why I cannot use resources to the fullest. From what I can tell hive will subtract your scheduled time from the available time in a day to give you resource allocation. If I cannot account for meetings with calendar integration then those numbers and resource system are useless. They cannot provide an accurate account of a workers time."Eric Camera @ WJU
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Kelley Bunge
Hi All! We have made a few updates to calendar syncing in Hive:
- We will now automatically set your status to 'In a meeting' when we see that there is a meeting on your calendar.
- There is now an option to 'Schedule time' in an action card to schedule work time for individual actions. You can find this below 'Add due date' in an action card. Just available for Gcal for the moment
We are also working on a drag and drop feature in 'My Actions' view to easily schedule tasks on your calendar through 'My day'.
Finally as a reminder, the 'Sync to calendar' option in table view will sync an entire project to your calendar. This calendar will update automatically to keep up to date with any changes in Hive.
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Maria Steger
Hello Kelley Bunge, can you elaborate on the additional changes you have made?
Kelley Bunge
Maria Steger: There were no additional changes. This post was accidentally reopened after it had been completed in September.
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Kris ✩
Kelley Bunge: This is AWEsome! Any thoughts as to when this might be available for Outlook?
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Kris ✩: Exact date tbd but we are working on it! I expect it to be available within the next few weeks.
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Kris ✩
Kelley Bunge: Outstanding!
Kelley Bunge
Hi All! We have made a few updates to calendar syncing in Hive:
- We will now automatically set your status to 'In a meeting' when we see that there is a meeting on your calendar.
- There is now an option to 'Schedule time' in an action card to schedule work time for individual actions. You can find this below 'Add due date' in an action card. Just available for Gcal for the moment
We are also working on a drag and drop feature in 'My Actions' view to easily schedule tasks on your calendar through 'My day'.
Finally as a reminder, the 'Sync to calendar' option in table view will sync an entire project to your calendar. This calendar will update automatically to keep up to date with any changes in Hive.
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Chris Velasco
Kelley Bunge: Works flawlessly. This allows me to stay in Hive for scheduling, rather than having to handle it in Google Cal. Thanks.
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Katherine Padgett
While we're syncing with Google Calendar, can it update my personal status based on meetings or vacation on my Google Calendar?
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Randy Yeo
Yes, this is really quite an overlooked feature on HIVE!
Lots of office still rely on G Suites / Google Cal for timelines etc (and let's face it – the HIVE mobile app isn't top of class). Calendar sync works to a small extent, that's to say it appears in Google Cal, but it takes up a 30 min slot prior to end time. Meaning if I have a deadline at 1pm, it reflects in Google Cal as 1230—1pm.
2 way sync will also help reflect deadlines / meetings etc accurately on Google Cal, which actually allows a more holistic integration into most office's workflow.
Crazy that we were talking to Winshen about this in April 2020 and still not been looked into.
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