Configuration

Once you have established a connection between On-Call Optimizer and a calendar provider you have the ability to customize which calendars available at the provider are scanned for availability information to import, and how previously imported availability information will be handled if and when the calendar is disconnected.

Accessing calendar configuration

1. Select Calendars from the side bar
2. From the list of available connections click the Edit icon at the bottom of the connection you wish to configured.

Calendar selection

Use the drop-down selector in each row to select whether or not to use each of the accessible calendars as a source of availability information.

When selected, each calendar is regularly checked for any matching availability events and the results are cached for use in future assignments and swaps.

Calendars which are not selected for use are completely ignored by the import process and no information about their events is read or accessed by On-Call Optimizer.

By default only the primary personal calendar associated with the account connecting the calendar to On-Call Optimizer is selected and all other calendars are ignored. Once the connection is established any of the accessible calendars can then be enabled as desired.

Event retention

The Retain Availability setting for each calendar controls what happens to previously imported availability information when the calendar is disconnected, or deselected.

By default this setting is enabled, which results in any previously imported availability information being kept in On-Call Optimizer when the calendar is disconnected or deselected.

If you choose to disable this setting for any calendar, all previously imported availability information will instead be removed when the calendar is disconnected or deselected.

Previously assigned shifts are not affected by operation of the Retain Availability setting, and any availability information previously used in creating an assignment remains visible in the history of that assignment even after the calendar is disconnected or deselected.