Available on Grow (with limits) and Scale subscriptions.
See Schedule feature access for more information.
Also available on legacy Premium and Enterprise subscriptions.
Feature overview
Overview of the Schedule feature (What, Why, Who, When)
What
The Schedule is a high-level resource-planning workspace that helps you plan capacity, create allocations, and visualize workload across projects and people.
Why
  • Plan upcoming work at a high level before assigning individual tasks.
  • Balance demand against team capacity and identify constraints early.
  • Forecast utilization and budgets with allocations and unavailable time.
  • Coordinate staffing decisions using placeholders and tentative projects.
Who
  • Site admins can access the Schedule and view, create, and manage allocations, unavailable time, placeholders, and tentative projects.
  • Standard users with the following profile permissions can use the Schedule:
    • Access resource scheduling: lets users view the Schedule and allocations for anyone on projects they’re a member of.
    • Manage resource scheduling: lets users create and edit allocations on projects they’re a member of.
When
Use the Schedule when you need to assess if you can take on new work, map resources across projects, or account for team downtime (for example, vacations and public holidays).

Schedule views

The Schedule offers two main perspectives to plan and monitor your work:
  • Projects view: See allocations grouped by project to plan timelines and budgets.
  • People view: See allocations grouped by person to balance workloads and avoid conflicts.

Key components

The Schedule includes the following building blocks:
  • Allocations: Blocks of time reserved for types of work on a project.
  • Placeholders: Role based, unnamed resources used to plan before assigning a specific person.
  • Tentative projects: Project placeholders you can use to model potential future work.
  • Unavailable time: Periods when team members cannot be scheduled, such as paid time off or public holidays.

Schedule glossary

Use this glossary to reference key Schedule terms and concepts.

Glossary of Schedule terms (table format)
Term
Definition and purpose
Schedule
High-level timeline for planning and tracking resource capacity across projects and people.
Projects view
Timeline grouped by project, showing team members and their allocations.
People view
Scale only
Timeline grouped by person, showing each user’s active project allocations.
Group by
Organize allocations by role under each project or person.
Allocation
Planned block of time for a person or placeholder on a project, with total and per-day hours.
Formula: allocation usage % = logged time ÷ allocated hours
Allocation roll-up
Total allocated hours for a project or person within the selected period.
Billable allocation
Allocation marked billable so it contributes to profitability and revenue insights in reports.
Formula: potential revenue = Σ(user billable rate × billable allocated hours)
Length of day
Working hours set in a user’s profile defines daily capacity.
Unavailable time
Non-working periods (such as PTO or holidays) that reduce available hours.
Availability
Remaining capacity after subtracting unavailable time and allocations. Formula: capacity remaining = length of day − (unavailable time + allocated hours)
Tentative project
Placeholder for potential work used to explore capacity before confirming new projects.
Insights bar
Scale only
Summary of total available time, allocated time, budgets, and potential revenue.
Formula: potential revenue = Σ(user billable rate × billable allocated hours)
Formula: time budget usage % = logged time ÷ time budget
Formula: financial budget usage % = billable amount ÷ financial budget

Schedule feature access

The functionality available within the Schedule depends on your Teamwork.com plan.

Feature availability by plan (Grow/Premium vs Scale/Enterprise)
Schedule feature
Grow
(& Premium)
Scale
(& Enterprise)
Group resources by role


Add & edit allocations


Allocations skip unavailable time


Mark allocations as billable


Drag & drop allocations


Add & edit unavailable time


Available capacity


Projects view


People view


Bulk add unavailable time


Insights bar


Task management
View, edit, and create tasks directly in the Schedule.


View Google Calendar events in the Schedule


Tentative projects
Up to 2
Unlimited

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