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Connecting your calendar in Begin Connecting your calendar in Begin Show your own published shifts and approved time off in another calendar. Open Settings → Calendars in Begin. The connection belongs to you in the active workspace; it does not export the whole team’s schedule.

Connect Google Calendar

1

Choose Google Calendar

In Settings → Calendars, choose Connect under Google Calendar.
2

Approve access

Sign in to the Google account you want to use and approve the connection.
3

Check the connection

Back in Begin, check the connected account and last-sync status. Your published shifts and approved time off are sent automatically.
If the connection reports an error, reconnect. If Google Calendar is unavailable on the page, contact support; changing your Google password will not enable a connection that Begin has not configured. Keep your own shifts and time off in Google Calendar or a calendar subscription. Keep your own shifts and time off in Google Calendar or a calendar subscription.

Subscribe from another calendar

For a calendar that accepts an iCal subscription, such as Apple Calendar or Outlook, choose Generate link under Calendar subscription, then Copy link. In your calendar app, add a calendar subscription using that URL. Subscribe to the link rather than importing it once if you want later changes. Your calendar app decides how often it refreshes the subscription, so updates may appear later than they do in Begin.
Anyone with the subscription link can read the calendar feed. Keep it private. If it has been shared, use Regenerate and replace the old subscription with the new URL.

Know what updates

Both methods include recent history and the coming year: 30 days back and 365 days ahead. Draft shifts and time off still awaiting approval are excluded. Editing an event in the other calendar does not change Begin. Choose Disconnect to stop Google updates. Events already added to Google stay there. Remove stops the subscription link; Regenerate invalidates the old URL.

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