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September 24, 2024

Frustrated by removing "Schedules"

  • September 24, 2024
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I’m frustrated Calendly removed the “Schedules” functionality. I hold an event once a month for an hour where I want to be only available for that event and not allow any other event types from scheduling something.

 

I used to be able to do this, but Calendly removed the feature with an update. 

 

Support told me I could manually input these specific dates on every other event type (8-10 of them). This would take hours. It’s should be really easy to set a schedule and apply it to multiple event types. The time off feature is useless because it blocks it across ALL event types. I can already do that on my own calendar. 

 

Is this something other people were using? If so, please let Calendly support know or comment below. 

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13 replies

jillian
Community Member
September 25, 2024

Hey @outdoorhiking,

Thanks for the feedback. We have a growing collection of similar topics here in Community and yes, we hear your feedback and others. We’re passing everything along to Product to help inform upcoming releases and roadmap, so thank you for sharing.

New Community Member
November 15, 2024

Agreed! I have two different types of meetings I need to be available for in calendly. Each type has 5 or 6 scheduling links. So now I have to update my availability for each of those 5 or 6 different links. Adding features I get - but just taking away features with no communication or warning is frustrating.

New Community Member
November 18, 2024

I also agree. I came here to see if I had missed something in where the schedules had gone.

This has caused a major headache and I’m weighing up whether to put the effort into updating all the event types or just to switch to other software. Pretty disappointed.

New Community Member
December 12, 2024

Same here, I couldn't believe they'd have introduced such a regression in the user experience. But yes, they have. All the custom schedules have seemingly been deleted without even bothering to send a notification, while it was possible before to easily assign a different schedule to an event, for example when travelling (to avoid deleting the usual schedule). The right-panel custom schedule editing is unusable compared to the calendar view which worked well (luckily still there for the default schedule). Whoever came up with this terrible change should be let go (it is that bad).

New Community Member
December 12, 2024

It's super frustrating when a feature that made life easier suddenly disappears. Having a way to block off time just for your monthly event without messing with the rest of your schedule would definitely save a ton of time. Manually adding dates to every event type is definitely a pain, and the "time off" feature just isn’t cutting it. Hopefully, more people chime in, and Calendly takes notice – it would make such a big difference!

 

 

 

 

New Community Member
December 12, 2024

Same here. This change has completely disrupted our way of operating.

We have a team with multiple round robin event types, and each team member had a separate calendar in their profiles for each event type. As team members, they cannot access to the configuration of the event type (nor do we want them to have), they used to manage their availability from their profiles, and now they can’t!

David
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 12, 2024

Hi all - Thanks for leaving your feedback here. I forwarded this all on to our product teams to review. Please continue to let us know anything else you notice along the way.

New Community Member
December 16, 2024

who’s idea was it to remove the one of the most core features to have different calendar schedules for a calendar app!

Community Member
December 17, 2024

Hopefully this feature will return soon. Otherwise, I have to consider looking at another software after all. Who makes this up to remove this option unannounced. This is really bizarre.

New Community Member
December 18, 2024

Would agree with all those who have posted about this feature “update” being both a surprise (no notice or communication) and also a “downgrade” from functionality standpoint. I work for a USA based company remotely from Europe and from the USA. So I have a specific schedule for when I’m in Europe - so I don’t have calls running too late, and then a separate schedule for USA. The removal of specific schedules has definitely been a major disruption and requires manually updating the schedule every time I travel which is 5-7 times per year at least. Would hope this “update” is restored back to it’s original functionality soon.