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title: "Calendar: Features"
description: "Every core Calendar feature, including views, availability, finding time, and booking links, with setup steps for each."
---
# Features
Every core Calendar feature: how it works, and how to set it up. See
[Calendar](/docs/template-calendar) for the overview and
[Talk to the Agent](/docs/template-calendar-agent) for the full list of
prompts.
## Calendar views
Switch between day, week, and month view from the toolbar. Every view reads
your real, connected Google Calendar. Nothing is cached or synthetic.
- **Multiple accounts** show in the same grid, color-coded, if you connect
more than one Google account (work + personal).
- **Read-only ICS/`webcal://` feeds** cover things like company holidays, a
conference schedule, or a teammate's public calendar. They mix into the
same view with their own color, though you can't edit events that come
from a feed.
- **Overlay a teammate's calendar** so their events show alongside yours,
each in their own color. This helps when a manager needs to check a direct
report's schedule.
- **Attendee timezones** show a guest's local start time when Google reports
it, or from a saved per-guest override when it doesn't.
- **Working locations** (home, office, elsewhere) show as a real status, not
a generic all-day event, and never block your availability. **Recurring
events** are supported end to end. Edit a single occurrence or the whole
series.
If part of your schedule fails to load, whether one account's token expired
or a feed URL times out, the app tells you which source failed instead of
quietly showing an empty day. A blank calendar and a broken connection look
different on purpose, so you never mistake "nothing loaded" for "nothing
scheduled."
### Connect your calendar
Open **Settings → Calendar → General**, choose the **Calendars** tab, and
select **Connect** on **Google Calendar**. Connect more accounts the same way
if you want personal + work overlayed.
### Subscribe to a read-only feed
Click **Add Calendar** in the sidebar, choose **From URL**, and paste an ICS
or `webcal://` URL.
### Overlay a teammate's calendar
Ask the agent to "Add Priya's calendar to my view in blue," or add them from
**Add Calendar → People** in the sidebar.
## Finding time
Ask the agent to find time and it checks your availability and your real
Google Calendar events. When you name other people, it also checks their
free/busy status, then proposes concrete slots. Once you pick one, the agent
books it directly on Google Calendar.
When you're scheduling with someone new, search by name or email instead of
typing an exact address. Calendar searches your Google Contacts plus your
Workspace directory, so you can ask "who is Dana at Acme" or "find people
named Priya" and get real matches to pick from.
```html
Your availability weekly hours, buffer, notice
Existing events Google Calendar, live
Attendees' free/busy when you name people
→
Find a timecandidate slots
→
You pick one
→
Event created on Google Calendar
```
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### Ask for a slot
"Find a 1-hour slot next week with Sam and Priya."
### Pick one
The agent proposes concrete slots. Pick one in chat, or from the suggested
options in the UI.
### It's booked
The agent creates the event directly on Google Calendar and it shows up in
your view immediately.
## Booking links
Booking links are public pages where anyone can pick a time and book it
directly onto your calendar. This is the Calendly-style part of Calendar: set
up meeting types, the availability they draw from, and track who books.
### Meeting Types
A meeting type is one specific booking link, like "15 min intro" or "30 min
demo," each with its own duration, fields, and conferencing choice.
### Create a meeting type
Give it a title and duration (like "15 min intro" at 15 minutes), then ask
the agent or click **New booking link**.
### Add options
Set alternate durations so a visitor can choose 15, 30, or 60 minutes on the
same link, custom fields to collect a company name or topic, a conferencing
choice (Google Meet, Zoom, or a custom link), a color, and required
co-hosts, other people who must also be free before a slot is offered. When
someone books, everyone (you and your co-hosts) gets invited to the resulting
Google Calendar event.
### Connect Zoom (optional)
Google Meet needs no setup. It's added the same way any Google Calendar
invite gets a Meet link. For Zoom, connect your account once from
**Settings**. After that, any meeting type set to Zoom creates a real Zoom
meeting for each new booking and attaches the join link to the confirmation.
### Share it
Share the public URL anywhere. Grant a teammate viewer/editor/admin access
from the link's **Share** menu if they should help manage it too. That's
separate from public booking access, which anyone with the URL always has
while the link is active.
Every meeting type has a public URL at `/book/{your-booking-name}/{slug}`,
for example `/book/steve/30min`. Your booking name is generated automatically
from your email the first time you create a link, and you can change it later
from Settings (up to three times every 30 days, since it's part of every
public link you've shared).
- **Renaming a meeting type**: change its URL slug at any time, for example
from `/book/steve/into-call` to `/book/steve/intro`. The old URL keeps
working: visitors who still have it are automatically forwarded to the new
one, so nothing you've already shared breaks.
### Availability
Availability is a weekly schedule: which days you work and what hours you're
open on each one, plus your timezone. On top of that you can set **buffer
time** between meetings so back-to-back bookings don't happen, **minimum
notice** so people can't book you five minutes from now, **how far ahead**
people can book (advance window), and a **default slot length** for new
meeting types.
The agent reads the same schedule the UI edits, so "set my hours to 9-5
weekdays" and dragging the sliders in the Availability tab produce the same
result.
### Set your weekly hours
Switch to the **Availability** tab and toggle on the days and hours you're
open, per day if needed.
### Add buffer and notice
Set **buffer time** between meetings and a **minimum notice** window so
people can't book you five minutes from now.
### Set your advance window and default slot length
Choose how far ahead people can book, and the default duration new meeting
types start with.
Or just ask the agent: "Block Friday afternoons on my availability."
### Bookings
A visitor picks an available time from your real availability, fills in
their name, email, and any custom fields you added, then confirms. They get a
confirmation with a private manage link. No sign-in is required, since the
link itself is the credential.
- **Managing bookings**: you (the host) see every booking, past and
upcoming, filtered by all, confirmed, or cancelled, in the **Bookings** tab.
- **Rescheduling or cancelling**: visitors use their manage link to move to
a different open slot or cancel outright, without needing an account. You
can also cancel a booking yourself from the **Bookings** tab.
Or ask the agent: "Show me this week's bookings."
## What's next
- [**Calendar**](/docs/template-calendar) — the overview and getting-started steps
- [**Talk to the Agent**](/docs/template-calendar-agent) — every prompt by task, application state, and Extensions
- [**Calendar in a Multi-App Workspace**](/docs/template-calendar-integrations) — integration strategies and connecting to Dispatch
- [**Developer Guide**](/docs/template-calendar-developers) — the actions and data model behind these features
- [**Sharing**](/docs/sharing) — the share-grant model booking links build on