Connect your personal calendar in Settings → Calendars to see your published shifts and approved time off from the current workspace. On a phone, open More → Profile & settings → Personal profile, then use the top-left settings navigation button and choose Calendars. Each workspace has its own connection. Your employer still changes your shifts in Begin; this gives you another place to see them.
If Google Calendar says Not available on this workspace yet, use the iCal option or contact
Begin support. Google connection availability depends on the service being configured.
Connect Google Calendar
1
Start the connection
Under Google Calendar, choose Connect.
2
Approve access
Choose the Google account whose primary calendar should receive your work, then approve the
requested access. Begin does not ask you to choose a secondary calendar.
3
Check the connection
Return to Begin and check the connected email address and sync status. New changes sync
automatically. Open that Google account’s primary calendar and compare an upcoming published
shift with Begin to check its date and time.
Subscribe from another calendar app
Under Calendar subscription, choose Generate link, then Copy link. Add that link as a calendar subscription in Apple Calendar, Outlook or another app that supports iCal. Subscribe to the URL rather than importing a one-off downloaded file. Keep the link private: anyone with it can read the calendar feed. To replace a shared or exposed link, choose Regenerate and confirm. The old link stops working immediately; update the subscription everywhere you used it. Remove stops access through the current link.Understand updates and disconnection
Only published work appears. Draft shifts and leave awaiting approval do not. The feed covers the past 30 days and the next 365 days. If an event is missing, check that it belongs to you in the connected workspace and falls within that window. Your calendar app controls when an iCal subscription refreshes. Calendar sync runs from Begin to your calendar. Editing a calendar event does not change the shift or time-off request in Begin.Choosing Disconnect for Google stops future syncing. Events already added to Google Calendar
stay there; remove them in Google if you no longer want them.
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