Focus time no longer Green Category

[Nevermore80]

All of a sudden Microsoft Viva stopped booking in Focus Time into my outlook calendar using the Green Category and instead used the standard usual Blue category. I have search previous questions on this and they all mention around renaming or deleting the Green Category as the possible cause for this but this is not something I have done so I do not know how to revert this to how it was.

Any help much appreciated.

[Novak82]

I am having exactly the same issue, I have not deleted-or renamed green category, suddenly my focus time is in default blue

[precode2k2]

Same issue here. A few weeks ago my focus time blocks started sorting in as the default blue, making them difficult to distinguish from other meetings. I've never renamed a category.

[FBJimmy]

I also started having this issue since early September

[Nevermore80]

Any help or advice on this at all please?

thanks

[Nedbank]

I am having the same issue here, started to notice a week ago. 

[Jake_Caddes]

Hi all, thank you bringing so much attention to this post. I have escalated to the product group to figure out whats going on here. Stay posted and we will get back to you ASAP.

[Abtade]

Please follow the instructions listed here and let me know if this resolves your issue: Focus plan for Viva Insights | Microsoft Learn

[Novak82]

It did help. Thank you

[precode2k2]

The Conditional Formatting feature isn't available on the Outlook client for Mac, nor does it seem to be available in the web version. For me this does not resolve the issue.

[Novak82]

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@precode2k2 wrote:

The Conditional Formatting feature isn't available on the Outlook client for Mac, nor does it seem to be available in the web version. For me this does not resolve the issue.

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Very good point. Only changed for me on the outlook app, but for example in teams colour remained blue..... 

So I take it back what I said, it didn't resolve the issue

[Abtade]

Thank you all for your feedback. While we are unable to support auto-coloring/categorization at this time we are taking
your feedback into account as we look at improving this experience.

[A_York]

As others have mentioned, this works for Outlook but not Teams or other apps that show the calendar.  It would be nice to be able to set a category of our choosing when these events are created.  Previously the Green Category was used, now no category is set.  This is a step in the wrong direction for those of us trying to effectively manage our calendars and utilize this Insights feature.  Please at least add back the Green Category rather than forcing us to use Conditional formatting.

[Nevermore80]

I agree - whilst this solution did work for me and Focus Time now shows in a different colour it feels like a work around rather than a solution. The removal of categories from the standard functionality feels like a step backwards in what Viva Insights offers.