Create a planning calendar in EAP

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title: Create a planning calendar in EAP
description: Create any additional planning calendars that you use in your organization, such as Release, so that you can plan and track work in the calendar of your choice.
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product: Enterprise Agile Planning
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# Create a planning calendar in EAP

Create any additional planning calendars that you use in your organization, such as Release, so that you can plan and track work in the calendar of your choice.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_apw\_advanced.eap\_admin

## About this task

Sprint and Planning Interval are the two planning calendars available by default. To create a different planning calendar, create one from the EAP Settings menu.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** > **Strategic Planning Workspace**.

2.  From the **Settings** menu, select **Enterprise Agile Planning** > **Planning calendars**.

3.  Select **New**.

4.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_jcs_brr_d1c"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Name

</td><td>

Unique name for the calendar.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Label

</td><td>

Label of how this calendar shows up in the EAP application.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Plural label

</td><td>

plural form of this calendar's label.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Iteration type

</td><td>

Type that this calendar belongs to. Select one from **Planning Interval** and **Sprint**.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Parent

</td><td>

Parent calendar for this calendar.For example, Planning Interval is the parent for Sprint.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

A brief description of the calendar, its use case, and other details.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>5.  Select **Save**.


## What to do next

Create entries for the newly created calendar. See [Create calendar entries for iterations in EAP](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/enterprise-agile-planning/create-calendar-entries-in-eap.md).