Quick way to block days
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I would love to see a way to block out days from being available through Calendly, without having to a) login, go into Settings and change the dates (which quite laborious) or b) add an all day event to my calendar on that day.
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Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the feedback! With Calendly, your personal connected calendar can be used whenever you want to blackout dates across all of your event types. This is because Calendly looks to this calendar as the central place from which it draws your actual availability.
As @Ant Pugh shared, you can add an all-day BUSY event to your schedule and Calendly would see that event as a conflict and remove availability for that corresponding date in all of your Calendly event types.
On the flipside, Calendly is capable of setting availability for multiple event types at the same time. To do so, you can utilize our Bulk Actions Toolbar:
Tim DaGraca
Senior Product Specialist
The Calendly TeamAcciones de comentarios -
Hi @Makayla,
Happy to hop in here! Think of Calendly is a scheduling platform that essentially sits on top of your connected personal calendar, Google. It checks for events marked “Busy” and interprets them as conflicts, preventing invitees from scheduling new events at those times.
When you schedule an event on Calendly, it is then published to your Google Calendar. You can ensure this is happening by double checking that "Add Events to Calendar" via your Calendar Connection page is turned on, and that a calendar is selected.
If you have further questions, please feel free to write a support ticket so that our team can dive in further. That way, we can help your use-case out specifically.
Best,
Tim DaGraca
Senior Product Specialist
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But what if we or our employees don't use Google Calendar or a similar one and don't want to sync their calendar, so we just want to easily block times off? We can't! I should be able to easily write in I am busy from 2pm to 4pm on Tuesday without having to go to this trouble.
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Hi Sorbonne Language School,
Thanks so much for your feedback. I can totally understand where you are coming from. I do have some good news: We are looking to make this easier in the near future as we recognize that some users do not choose to sync with a calendar and that that method should not be the only way to apply a one-off block on your calendar.
Until this new solution is implemented, the current options available are:
- Connect with Google Calendar (or something similar) to use solely for conflict checking; meaning, you don't have to have Calendly events publish to it or always use it as your primary calendar/scheduling tool. Calendly is great without a calendar, but for easy blocking of days it works best with an integrated calendar.
- Edit your availability per event type. In the When can people book this event section of each event type, you can mark yourself unavailable for that day; or, you can only create intervals of availability that exclude the time that you do not want to accept meetings (from 2-4pm.)
I understand that neither of these solutions are ideal for your use case but at this time, they are the only ones that I have to offer. I hope that helps -- even if for now!
Best,
Tim DaGraca
Product Content Specialist
The Calendly Team
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