Connect a calendar product

Establishing an connection between On-Call Optimizer and a calendar product.

To establish a connection between On-Call Optimizer and a supported calendar product follow these steps.

1. Login to On-Call Optimizer and navigate to the Calendars section.

  1. Select Calendars from the side bar
  2. From the Calendars page, select Add a new calendar connection at the bottom of the page.

After following these steps you should be at https://app.oncall-optimizer.com/calendar_connections/new and be able to see the logo of your Calendar on screen.

2. Select your calendar product

Click on the button corresponding to the row of the calendar product you wish to connect to. After selecting a product you will either be:

  1. Redirected to the website of your calendar product (e.g. Google, Outlook) and asked to grant On-Call Optimizer the necessary permissions to read your calendars. OR
  2. Prompted to enter the configuration details required to connect to your calendar (e.g. ICS URL).

Complete the authorization process provided by the calendar product, or supply the requested configuration details to continue.

3. Configure which calendars to import

Once you have completed the authorization and/or configuration process On-Call Optimizer will validate that it can successfully access the new calendar connection.

If On-Call Optimizer can successfully access the configured calendar product, you will be shown a list of calendars that are available to configure as sources for availability information.

  1. For each calendar in the list use the toggle button to choose whether or not to import availability information from it.
  2. Click Save at the bottom of the list.

Finish

Once you cilck Save, the process of importing availability information will begin in the background and may take a few minutes to complete.

You can view the status of the import for each calendar on the main Calendars page accessible via the Calendars entry in the side bar at any time.

Any imported availability information will be visible on your home page once the import process is complete.


Last updated December 2, 2024