How to set up the Workload (planned) chart for Trello

The Workload (planned) chart allows seeing how much work is planned for the future. It takes all the items that have a set due date and shows a summary per day/week/month/quarter of the total planned work.

Here’s an example chart:

In this example, the chart is grouped by Week and the bar segment is Assignee. The chart shows how much work is allocated per week for each assignee. The leftmost bar is the current week. The bars to the right are the future weeks.

As the name of the chart suggests, it only shows the work with planned duration. That means a task must have at least a due date set in order to be included in this chart. Tasks without any deadlines are not included in this chart.

The work is evenly distributed for the remaining days. For example, if you have 20 tasks with each having a due date in 10 days, there will be two tasks allocated per day.

You can also set a start date for a task, and the chart will take that into account. If the start date is not set, the chart allocates the work from today until the due date.

Here’s an example chart:

The work is evenly distributed for the remaining days. For example, if you have 20 tasks with each having a due date in 10 days, there will be two tasks allocated per day.

You can also set a start date for a task, and the chart will take that into account. If the start date is not set, the chart allocates the work from today until the due date.

Here’s an example chart:

The work is evenly distributed for the remaining days. For example, if you have 20 tasks with each having a due date in 10 days, there will be two tasks allocated per day.

You can also set a start date for a task, and the chart will take that into account. If the start date is not set, the chart allocates the work from today until the due date.

Guide contents:

Adding dates to Trello cards

Configuring the Workload (planned) chart

Adding dates to Trello cards

You can set start and due dates in Trello by clicking the Dates button within an individual card.

You can set the due date by selecting the date and time from the calendar. You can set a start date to a card by checking the "Start Date" box and selecting the date.

You can also use any of your custom Date fields to represent the start dates or due dates. Learn how to configure any custom date field as start or due date for tasks.

Notice that there may be some delay before the dates become visible in the Screenful. Once you have set the dates, they will be reflected in the chart after the next data sync which is run automatically once per hour. You can trigger the sync manually any time by selecting Data sync options from the main menu.