Time off and your calendar feed

Blocking out time

Use time blocks to mark when you’re unavailable — holidays, annual leave, meetings and the like. Create, edit and delete blocks; make them all-day or timed; and set them to repeat. Blocked time is shaded on the calendar and helps keep bookings out of your time off.

A block you create is just for you by default — your annual leave or a personal appointment doesn’t block bookings for the rest of your team. If you manage the practice diary (owners, managers and administrators), the block window has an Applies to the whole practice option for things that close the whole practice, like a bank holiday or a team training day.

Subscribing to your calendar

You can view your Practicos appointments in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook using a private iCalendar (ICS) feed.

1. On the calendar, generate your calendar feed to get a private feed URL.

2. Copy it and add it as a subscribed calendar in your calendar app.

3. Your appointments then appear there automatically, kept up to date.

Caution

Your feed URL is private — anyone with it can see your appointment times. If it’s ever exposed, regenerate it (this invalidates the old URL) or revoke it entirely.

Note

The feed is one-way: it shows your Practicos appointments in your calendar app. Events you create in Google or Outlook don’t come back into Practicos.