Newly Added Appointment Booking Feature in Google Calendar 2024
→ Google recently released a way to easily create a booking feature from your calendar.
→ This is called Appointment Scheduler or Booking a time or Appointment Booking, etc.
→ Anyone interested in connecting can easily book an appointment.
→ Booking Confirmation mail goes to both people.
→ We can easily add this feature to our web applications
Why Booking Appointment Feature useful:
→ Like regular office meetings, we have to set them manually. If you want to create some time of your day open for meetings (say weekends), it is helpful.
→ We create a meeting slot once. People interested in the meeting can just click your time and the meeting is booked.
→ We can also choose platforms like Google Meet, phone, in in-person as per event needs.
Creating Appointment Type Meeting:
STEP 1: Go to your calendar. Click on the time and date where you want your booking to be added.
→ This will be a recurring meeting
STEP 2: Click on the third tab i.e. Appointment Schedule. The first two existed, and the third one was recently added.
→ For the first-time user — the disabled field will be open i.e. Connect with Amir. Enter your meeting name.
→ This will be unified the next time we add more appointments like the current case
→ Click on Edit icon
→ Select your date of booking eg. Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm with a gap of 30 mins
→ This gap time or no gap can be customized from here only.
→ Click Next button
→ We can add more custom fields like the reason of meeting, phone number, etc. These details are asked when someone will try to book a timeslot.
→ Appointment creation is successfully created.
Sharing Appointment Meeting:
→ Click on the Appointment you want to share
→ Click the Share button. There are two ways we can share booking invites.
- Method 1: Share directly invite link.
2. Method 2: Add to your web apps using Embed links. Here they provide two styles — button with popup and inline
A. Button with Popup Booking: Click on the button
B. Inline Booking:
Other user Booking to our calendar:
→ Now most of our job is done. Let us now log in with a different email ID and try booking the time we provided
→ We can choose to book either of three ways — button with popup, inline booking or direct URL
→ Here let's see using the button with a pop-up. Click Schedule Meeting.
→ Note these button colours and text can be modified in code.
→ Enter the reason for booking, followed by clicking the Book button
→ Click Close
→ Meeting invites are shared with both team members on the date scheduled
a. People who booked:
b. Creator of Booking:
Conclusion:
With the help of the recently released Google Calendar Appointment Scheduler feature, anyone can add their open time slots based on their requirement and feasibility, followed by adding their web application or link.
With one click users interested people can schedule a meeting with Google Meet, phone, etc.
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