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A Calendar sync card showing a connected calendar and a published morning shift A Calendar sync card showing a connected calendar and a published morning shift Connect your personal calendar in Settings → Calendars to see your published shifts and approved time off from the current workspace. Each workspace has its own connection. This connects your own work, not the whole team’s schedule.
Google Calendar is switched on per environment by Begin. If you see Not available on this workspace yet, use the iCal link or contact Begin support.
Calendar sync settings with an active Google connection and an iCal subscription link Calendar sync settings with an active Google connection and an iCal subscription link

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Connect Google Calendar

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Start the connection

Under Google Calendar, choose Connect.
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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.
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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.
If the connection needs attention, choose Reconnect and complete Google’s approval again. Not synced yet means no successful sync has been recorded yet.

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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.

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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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