This guide takes you through the process of adding your work shifts to your personal calendar. This is known as iCalendar.

This user guide shows how employees can subscribe to the iCalendar through using Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple.

Note: Please be aware that this feature is optional to your company. You may or may not have accessed to iCalendar based on Settings.

This article will contain the following on how to link your schedule to your calendar using Team Xpress:

This link will update your calendar once a day with changes to your calendar.

The first step is to get the iCalendar link. This will be located inside the Preferences tab of your Team Xpress My Account section. So head to My Account > Preferences > iCalendar.

Once you've opened iCalendar, you'll see an option to Get new URL

(green arrow). Press it. This will generate your first URL link. You will need to enter this URL into the calendar application when subscribing your schedule.

Note: At any time if you want to update you can hit Update iCalendar. Simply hit Update iCalendar (red arrow) and refresh your app to display the latest information.

Before we show examples, please be made aware that any changes made by either Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple are out of Celayix's control. Therefore, it's possible that after the creation of this article, the calendar product may have changed. The examples should still serve as a general indicator on how to subscribe.

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To add your calendar to your Google Calendar, sign in to your Google account in a web browser. Click the add calendar (+) button (green arrow) to

Here you'll be presented with the opportunity to choose to use the URL you've created in your Team Xpress app.

Revert back to your Team Xpress app and highlight, right click and copy your URL iCalendar link as below.

Then paste it into the Google Calendar URL of calendar as displayed below. You'll also be given the opportunity to make the calendar publicly accessible.

Press Add Calendar to submit.

Once submitted, your Google Calendar will display the shifts in your schedule. See example below.

You can double-click on any shift to pull up more information.

Note: Should your URL appear to be playing up, please click the Get new URL in the iCalendar section of your Team Xpress app.

You can set reminders for all events in this calendar. See the Modify Google Calendar notifications page for further details.

Google Calendar will re-download the iCalendar file automatically on a regular basis. This period is independent of the frequency that eTime Xpress updates the iCalendar file. Google Calendar refreshes its view based on its own schedule, typically once every 24 hours.

Note: This is not configurable by the user. Google Calendar does not provide a manual method of refreshing its view of the iCalendar file.

You can subscribe to the eTime Xpress iCalendar file in Outlook. Once subscribed, Outlook periodically checks for updates to the iCalendar file. You may also manually check for updates by pressing F9.

One your inside of Outlook, go to the Calendar view. To do so, click the Calendar tab (green arrow) as displayed below.

Note: This will be positioned to the bottom left of your screen in the desktop app.

First, you'll need to locate where to paste your iCalendar URL. You can click the Add calendar (green arrow) option within your Outlook Calendar.

You'll be greeted with the following page.

The next step is to locate where to add your URL. Click the Subscribe from web (green arrow) option highlighted below.

From here, you can paste you iCalendar URL (green box) from your Team Xpress app.

One you've pasted the URL (green arrow), you'll be given the option to name your calendar (red arrow).

Also, you can choose the Add to dropdown (red arrow) to choose which section you would like your calendar to be filtered under.

Once you've decided, press Import.

It will display as below.

You can click a shift to view the shift information.

The built-in Calendar app in iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) will allow you to subscribe using iCalendar.

Email the iCalendar link to yourself and open the email on the device. Tap the link. From there, you will be asked if you want to subscribe to the calendar.

Upon clicking the URL, you'll be presented with the below page. Click Subscribe.

Once you've subscribed, you'll need to give your calendar a name.

You can also preview shifts and give the calendar a color. Them click Add in to the top right corner to proceed.

You'll can see the shifts listed in your calendar as below.

You will see greyed out shifts toward the top of the page. They are shifts that are in the past.

To see more information about the shift, simply click on it.

If you want to turn on calendar alerts, you start by clicking the information tab as highlighted below (green arrow).

Here you'll be given the opportunity to turn your Event Alerts (green arrow) on which means you'll receive a notification about anything upcoming.

For more help with adding your iCalendar to any of the above, Contact Support now!