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Improve Navigation within the Scheduling View

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1/18/18

We are just beginning to start looking at the scheduling and planning features that that are available to see it we can leverage them. I ran across a "small" problem in using the Scheduling view under People. When you expand an item to schedule hours at the day level, the only way to move from one day to the next is using the tab key or physically moving the cursor to the next cell you want to update and then clicking on it. Out of habit, I used the Arrow Keys to try to navigate this view. In doing so, I triggered an error to pop-up in the cell I was in. If you attempt to use the arrow keys:

1) The cursor will not move to the next date in any direction (up, down, or side to side).

2) If you hit the Arrow Keys at least 6-7 times, "NaN" pops up in the cell that you were in.

*Side note: In another test, I also encountered the "NaN" verbiage popping up in the totals field at the top of the screen, but I am not sure how that happened, as the contents of the cells in that column looked fine (normal).

Anyway, I reported this issue to Workfront Support because I don't think "NaN" should be popping up if you use the Arrow Keys and I wanted to find out why the Arrow Keys don't work. Most everyone is familiar with Microsoft Excel and using the Arrow Keys seems like a natural thing use from one cell to another. I received the following feedback, from the Workfront Help Desk.

"Currently, our scheduling tool is not designed to allow you to freely move using arrow keys. We do feel that this would be a great improvement to the product. What we would want to do now is submit this to the Idea Exchange where other users will have the ability to vote on this enhancement. This will give us a better idea of how utilized this functionality would be and we can then begin development based on that feedback".

So guys, this hangs in the balance based on your interest. Does anyone else feel that it would be beneficial to enable the Arrow Keys to allow a person to navigate from one day to the next in the new Schedule View? If so, please vote on this one!