Syncing to Google Calendar (One-Way & Two-Way Sync)
STEP 1: Navigate to the Staff & User Settings of your account within the Settings tab in the menu bar.
STEP 2: In the General section of your Staff & User settings, click on the “Google Calendar Sync” button.
STEP 3: A new tab will populate in your browser, advising you to sign in with your Google account credentials.
STEP 4: Once you have logged in, you will need to give My Best Practice permission to access your Google Calendar by pressing the "Allow" button.
STEP 5: After granting MBP access to your Google calendar. you will be brought back to the "Edit Google Calendar" page within your account.
Here, you will need to select which type of sync mode you'd like to utilize.
- One-Way Sync
- This will display all of the appointments entered into your calendar within MBP on your Google Calendar. However, you will not be able to edit or delete them within Google. All changes must be made within the calendar in your MBP account.
- Two-Way Sync
- This will also display your MBP calendar within your Google Calendar, but you'll be able to make adjustments to the date/time and you can delete appointments straight from your Google Calendar. Any changes made within your Google Calendar will reflect within your MBP calendar.
- NEW appointments created on your MBP calendar within Google will show up on the calendar within your MBP account as a "Non-Client Appointment" as a placeholder. You'll want to create the appropriate client appointment within your MBP account and then delete the "Non-Client Appointment." It will then reflect accurately in your Google Calendar.
- Recurring appointments must be created within your MBP account.
- Note: Once you’ve created the recurring appointment series in MBP, you can adjust individual appointment times from Google Calendar. Keep in mind that doing this will only move that individual appointment. The appointment will be broken off from your regular recurring series, and the rest of the series will remain unaffected. If you need to adjust the entire recurrence, you'll need to do so through your MBP account.
STEP 6: Within your Google Calendar, you can make any desired changes to how the MBP calendar is displayed.
- When hovering over the MBP calendar in the “My calendars” list, you can click on the three vertical dots button to make changes to the settings (e.g., change the color of the calendar entries).
- If you want to change the name of the calendar or make any other changes to the settings click on “Settings and sharing” to be directed to the settings page.
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