[Enhancement] Customizability for Number of Days in Calendar Week View

[Pydes-boop]

Describe the bug The week view in the calendar on mobile only displays 4 days at once (ie. week starts at monday ends at thursday) Swiping from left to right to the next week then makes the next display start at the friday of the same week.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Calendar
2. Click on Week View

Expected behavior

I want to get an overview of my week (either 5 or 7 days) and be able to scroll through weeks.

Screenshots

Week View:

Swiping to the previous week:

Smartphone:

• Phone: Iphone 13
• OS version: 17.3.1
• Language: English
• App Version: 5.0

[jakobkoerber]

Thank you for contributing! While I understand your concern about the number of days displayed in the week view, displaying 4 days on a phone was a conscious decision. During the beta phase of the new TUM Campus App many users gave us the feedback about degraded readability or the lack of weekends while displaying 5 or 7 days respectively at the same time. I completely understand your point about the inconsistent start day of a week and will think about a solution for version 5.0.2 or later, e.g. user customizability in the settings. But for now, showing 4 days on a phone and 7 days on a tablet is the best compromise for all our users.

[...] be able to scroll through weeks.

This should already be possible with the weeks divided unequally into 4 days

[Pydes-boop]

If its supported on a tablet then it should maybe be a config setting somewhere in the app to switch between a weekly view of 4/5/7 day view for users preference. In any case calling the 4-day view a weekly view seems confusing (Google Calendar for example has an additional option called "3-Day View" that seems to fill the purpose of better readability the current Weekly View here is trying to fill).

While i understand your point about user testing, this deviates from how other major apps and platforms implement a weekly calendar views on mobile. Setting the standard to 4 days while most users while expect a 7 or at least 5 day overview from other apps. It also kind of goes against the purpose of why one wants a weekly view in the first place, to have an overview of the the current/next week and weekly events.

It also makes the weekly view way harder to read, typically calendars both analog and digital are all sorted and displayed around starting at certain weekdays (usually mondays or sundays), and this orientation is lost completly in the current view. Thinking of the current monthly view, it always starts at a monday, while the weekly view now starts at differing days depending on which day of the week i open it (with the view also changing 7 times a week). This kind of results in a user loosing their point of comparison every day, with the weekly view also changing and displaying different events every day.

For the user testing i am curious, did you only test 5/7 days or did you test 4/5/7 because you only mentioned the first option?

In general i do agree with giving the users the option of a smaller view for better readability but in this case it seems like it is also taking away an important option for other users (who dont have tablets).

[jakobkoerber]

If its supported on a tablet then it should maybe be a config setting somewhere in the app to switch between a weekly view of 4/5/7 day view for users preference. In any case calling the 4-day view a weekly view seems confusing.

Like I mentioned before, we will evaluate all possible solutions and attempt to find the best compromise for all users :) this will probably mean an entry in the settings giving the user the option to show/hide weekends or renaming it to "4-Day View" or similar

For the user testing i am curious, did you only test 5/7 days and got that feedback or did you do side-by-side comparisons of 4/5/7 prefer as a weekly view?

We had 5 days and 7 days in some versions, no concrete user testing since this is a rather small detail. With 5 days users complained about not seeing the weekends, with 7 days users complained about degraded readability. 4 days seemed like a quick fix for the best common ground, but I totally understand your gripes with that

[Pydes-boop]

e.g. user customizability in the settings.

Im sorry, it is late and i totally missed the part in your first answer talking about user customizablity so i tried to provide reasoning towards adding such customizability.

[jakobkoerber]

Im sorry, it is late and i totally missed the part in your first answer talking about user customizablity so i tried to provide reasoning towards adding such customizability.

No worries 😄 I understand your concern and we want to provide the best possible solution for all users. Adding customization should allow that