What your Current calendar shows
What Current puts on the Calendar, the Schedule and My Day, which Outlook events count, what Current adds to your Outlook calendar, and where busy time copied from another calendar comes from.
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Three places in Current show your time by date: the Calendar (in the sidebar under Delivery), the Schedule (one row per person, day by day) and the Today card on My Day. Each one reads your Microsoft 365 calendar live, through the Microsoft account you connected yourself, rather than from a copy kept in Current.
On the Calendar
- Project tasks, as one chip on the task's due date, or on its start date when it has no due date. Chips are colored billable or internal, with milestones marked.
- Your own open to-dos that have a due date. A to-do you finish leaves the calendar.
- Tasks with no dates yet, in the Unscheduled drawer.
- Your Microsoft 365 events, once you turn on Microsoft 365 in the toolbar. Show my own calendar shows your events with their titles. Show my team's busy time shows when your teammates are busy, without titles, as a count on each day. If a teammate's calendar can't be read, the page names them instead of showing them as free.
Completed tasks
A task marked Done stays on its day so you can see what got finished. It's drawn faded, with a check mark and its name struck through. Press Hide completed in the toolbar to take finished tasks off the grid and out of the Unscheduled drawer, and press it again to bring them back. It starts off, and your choice is remembered. Finished to-dos never show.
On My Day and the Schedule
- My Day's Today card has two lanes. Meetings holds today's Outlook events, leaving out all-day events and the blocks Plan my day added; a Tentative event is drawn with a dashed border. Your work holds the time you logged today and your planned blocks.
- The Schedule shows each person's tasks by day, their time off, company holidays and blocked days, with Microsoft 365 busy time laid over it.
Which Outlook events show
- Current reads the default calendar in your own mailbox. Other calendars in your mailbox, and calendars other people share with you, aren't read.
- Events set to Show as Free are left out. Busy, Tentative and Out of office events show.
- Plan my day treats Busy, Tentative and Out of office events as time that's taken, and ignores cancelled and all-day events.
What Current adds to your Outlook calendar
- Task reminders. When a task assigned to you is scheduled on the Calendar, the Schedule or its project, Current adds an all-day event named "Current: " and the task's name on that day. It's set to Show as Free with no reminder, so it never blocks your time. It moves when you drag the task to another day on the Calendar or the Schedule, hand it to someone else on the Schedule, or change its due date on the project, and dropping it on the Schedule's To dispatch tray removes it. A change made anywhere else, or one that arrives from your PSA, doesn't update it. Current's own views hide these events, because the task is already there. They're added only for someone who has connected Microsoft 365.
- Plan my day. Add to Outlook puts your planned blocks on your calendar as Busy events in the category "Planned by Current". Nothing is added until you press it.
- Book time in Outlook, from a task or a ticket. See "Book time in Outlook from a record".
- Booking links. A meeting someone books through your booking link goes on your calendar with them invited.
Busy time copied from another calendar
Current doesn't copy events from one calendar or mailbox into another. If your calendar holds busy blocks that mirror a second mailbox (another work account, or a customer's Microsoft 365), they were made by an outside calendar sync tool or by Outlook calendar sharing. Current shows them only because they sit in your own calendar, and removing them is done in that tool.
Such tools usually copy only events set to Show as Busy, and skip events set to Free or Tentative. If a meeting from the other calendar is missing from the copy, check how it's marked there, and check the tool's own settings.
