"First Day of the Week" setting as User Preference vs. Account-wide Setting

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Currently the “First Day of the Week” is an Admin setting. Since some regions default to using a weekly calendar that starts on Sunday while others start on Monday, it makes sense to me that this setting should be an individual user preference.

See this Monday article for more information on where the setting is currently located.

Consider teams that have users in multiple regions or with differing calendar view preferences, it would make sense to let each user display the calendar with a week start date that they are accustomed to, rather than having this be an account-wide admin setting that affects all user’s views.

PAIN POINT: Changing the “First Day of the Week” in calendar view is currently an Admin setting that affects all users in the account. This makes it hard for teams that may have users in multiple regions that have are accustom to different week start days.

SOLUTION: Make the “First Day of the Week” setting an individual preference that only affects the user’s display of the calendar, and not how weekends or workdays are defined.

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Definitely! We use Monday globally and not everyone starts on the same day

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AND make sure that the calendar blocks out the right days when you set it to “exclude weekends.” I need the calendar to start with Sunday, have a M-F week, and block weekends. When I set weeks to start Sunday and block weekends, it thinks I’m that in Algeria or something, defining weekends to Friday/Saturday. ARGH!
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Hey! I’m Amber from the Boards team here at monday!

I’m happy to share that you are now able to define your first day of the week settings within your My Profile section and this will update how you see your date pickers across your account- meaning different users can see different views.

An important clarification is that this will not affect what is considered a weekend- this is still an account wide setting defined by the admin that will affect every user in the same way.