How to Navigate the Rocks Page

The Rocks page is your team's central view of its quarterly priorities. It shows every Rock for the selected team, organized by type and owner, with several filters to zero in on exactly what you need. If you're looking to add a new Rock rather than navigate an existing one, see How to Create Rocks in Ninety.

Any licensed user can access the Rocks page for any team they belong to. Owners, Admins, and Implementers can view all non-private teams without being added as members.

Rocks tool pages

There are three tabs that run across the top of the Rocks tool:

• List: The default view. Shows all active Rocks for the selected team, organized by type and owner.
• Planning Board: A multi-quarter planning view that lets you organize Rocks across the current quarter and up to three quarters ahead. See Using the Planning Board to Plan Rocks Across Quarters for details.
• Archive: Shows all Rocks that have been moved out of your active workspace, either manually or automatically at the end of a quarterly meeting. Only archived Rocks appear here — Rocks that were deleted are permanently removed and won't show up. See Archiving and Deleting Rocks to learn more.

Filters and controls

The filters bar sits below the view tabs and contains five controls.

Team dropdown

The Rocks page is organized by team. Click the Team dropdown to select the team whose Rocks you want to view, create, or edit.

Which teams you can see depends on your role:

• Managers and Team Members can view the Rocks page for any team they're members of.
• Owners, Admins, and Implementers can view all non-private teams, even without being assigned as members.

If a team doesn't appear in your dropdown, you're likely not assigned to it. An Owner, Admin, or Implementer can add you to the team from the Directory. See User Roles and Permissions for a full breakdown of what each role can access.

Owner dropdown

Use the Owner dropdown to filter the Rocks page to show only Rocks assigned to specific team members. By default, all owners on the selected team are shown.

Click Owner: All to open the dropdown and check or uncheck individual team members. You can select multiple owners at once. This is useful when you want to focus on one person's Rocks during a 1-on-1 or review session without scrolling past the cards of every other team member.

Status dropdown

Use the Status dropdown to filter the selected team's Rocks by status.

The available options are:

• All: Shows Rocks with any status. This is the default view.
• On-track: The Rock is actively being worked on, and progress is on schedule for completion by the due date.
• Off-track: The Rock is still being worked on, but progress has fallen behind schedule. For example, milestones are consistently completed late, or the scope of remaining work makes the original due date unlikely. Use this status during meetings to signal that a Rock needs attention or support.
• Complete: The Rock has been finished and meets the criteria for success defined in its description or SMART framework.
• Canceled: The Rock was started or planned but intentionally dropped before completion. This typically happens when priorities shift midquarter or the team determines the work is no longer necessary. Use Canceled rather than deleting a Rock when you want to preserve a record that the goal was under consideration during the quarter.

Ellipsis (or more actions) menu

Click the ellipsis (...) on the right side of the filters bar to access four additional actions:

• Refresh Rocks: Reloads the Rocks page data without a full browser refresh. Use this if you suspect the page is showing stale information.
• Print to PDF: Exports all Rocks currently displayed on the page to a PDF file. The export reflects your current Team, Owner, and Status filter settings — only the Rocks you can see will be included. See Printing and Exporting Rocks to PDF for details.
• Download Excel: Exports your team's Rocks and milestones to an XLSX spreadsheet. To include archived Rocks, switch to the Archive tab before downloading. See Exporting Rocks to a Spreadsheet for details.
• Archive Completed: Moves all Rocks with a Complete status to the archive in one action. Owners, Admins, Managers, and Implementers can use this option. See Archiving and Deleting Rocks for details.

Search bar

Use the Search Rocks bar on the right side of the filters bar to find a specific Rock by title. The search applies to the team currently selected in the Team dropdown.

For faster results, combine the search bar with the Status or Owner dropdown. For example, filter by Off-track and search by keyword to quickly locate a specific Rock that needs attention.

Page layout

The Rocks page is divided into cards, one per team member, with an additional card at the top for elevated (departmental or company) Rocks.

The first card shows Rocks designated as Departmental Rocks — for the Leadership Team, this card is labeled Company Rocks instead. These are the Rocks your team has collectively identified as its highest priorities for the quarter.

Each subsequent card belongs to an individual team member. Cards appear for every member assigned to the selected team.

Each Rock row within a card shows:

• Current status (the colored status icon on the left).
• Rock title.
• Milestone progress bar (showing completed vs. total milestones, if milestones are enabled).
• Due date.

Viewing milestones

Click the caret on the far left of any Rock's row to expand it and view its milestones inline. Click the caret again to collapse the view.

Reorganizing Rocks

To reorder Rocks within a card, hover your cursor over a Rock's row to reveal a six-dot drag handle on the far left. Click and hold the handle, then drag the Rock into your preferred position.

Viewing specific users

Managers, Admins, Owners, and Implementers can adjust the order in which team members appear on the Rocks page.

After the Departmental (or Company) Rocks card, each team member's card has carets in the top-right corner that you can use to move that card up or down in the list. The default order is alphabetical by first name. Your ordering preference stays in place until you clear your browser cache.

The Planning Board offers additional options for organizing Rocks across multiple quarters at once.

How quarters are assigned to Rocks

When you create or view a Rock, Ninety determines which quarter it belongs to in one of two ways.

Manual assignment: If you set the Quarter field in the Rock's details panel, that value takes precedence over the due date.

Automatic assignment: If no quarter is set, Ninety assigns a quarter based on the Rock's due date, using the following cutoff dates:

• Q1: Due dates through February 14 or 15.
• Q2: Due dates through May 16.
• Q3: Due dates through August 15.
• Q4: Due dates through November 15.

Rocks with due dates past these midpoints are assigned to the following quarter.

Troubleshooting

I can't see my Rocks (or they seem to have disappeared). Work through this checklist in order:

1. Check the Team dropdown. Confirm you have the correct team selected. Rocks are always scoped to a single team at a time.
2. Check which tab you're on. If the Archive tab is selected, you're viewing archived Rocks, not active ones. Click the List tab to return to your current Rocks.
3. Check the Status filter. Confirm it's set to All. Filtering by a specific status will hide any Rocks that don't match.
4. Confirm your team membership. Managers and Team Members can only see the teams they're assigned to. If you're not seeing a team in the dropdown, you may not be a member.
5. Check whether the team is private. Content in a private team is only visible to its assigned members, regardless of role.
6. Clear your browser cache. Display issues sometimes result from cached data. Log out of Ninety, close all Ninety browser tabs, clear your cache and cookies (choose All Time), then log back in.
7. Check whether the Rocks were deleted. Deleted Rocks are permanently removed and won't appear in the archive. If you've worked through all the steps above and the Rocks are still missing, contact support to request recovery.

A team member's name shows as "N/A" on the Rocks page. This usually has one of three causes:

• The user hasn't accepted their invitation yet. Before a user accepts their invitation, their display name may not be fully set. An Owner, Admin, Manager, or Implementer can go to the Directory, click the user's name, and click the pencil icon to correct the display name.
• It's only visible to one person, not the whole team. This is usually a browser cache issue on the affected user's machine. Have that user clear their browser cache and log back in.
• It's visible to everyone on the team. If the "N/A" appears for multiple people, contact support with the affected user's email address and team name.

The dashboard shows off-track Rocks, but none appear when I filter by Off-track. The count shown on the dashboard and the Status filter view can briefly fall out of sync after a Rock's status has recently changed. Refresh the page first. If the count persists after refreshing, check whether the Rock belongs to a different team than the one currently selected in the Team dropdown, or whether it's in a different quarter.

My Rock shows the wrong quarter, or I'm seeing a "Rock Quarter Is in the Future" error. This happens when the Rock's Quarter field or its due date places it in a future quarter while you're trying to access it in the current view.

To fix it:

1. Click Rocks from the left navigation.
2. Click the Rock to open its details panel.
3. Locate the Quarter field and update it to the correct quarter.

If the wrong quarter is a recurring issue, check that your company's Fiscal Year Start Month is set correctly in Company Settings, and confirm that your Rock due dates fall within the expected quarter cutoffs listed above.