Connecting Apple Calendar
- Under Manage Calendar, click on 'iCloud' to connect your Apple calendar
- You'll get to this screen. Cronofy is the tool that we use to set-up the calendar functionality.
You need the following info: - Your Apple ID that has the calendar you rely on to manage your availability and you want to connect to your Boober account.
- App-specific password for Boober Calendar. The steps to create App-specific password are explained in the following steps.
- Do NOT close this page, you need to get back to it.
- To create the app-specific password:
- Log in to your Apple account on https://account.apple.com/sign-in
- ' as you see in the following screenshot. If you're already logged in, use this link to access this page: https://account.apple.com/account/manage
- Click on "App-Specific Passwords" box
- You will get to this view. Click on the "+" icon to add a new one.
- In this step, you give the password that Apple will generate a name. You can call it "Boober Calendar" or something similar. Then, click on Create
- It will ask you to enter your Apple Account password. This is a security measure to confirm that the owner of the account is creating this password. Enter your password and hit Continue.
- Now the app-specific password is ready for you to use. Make sure to copy the password you see.
- Let's go back to connect your calendar browser tab. Paste the generated password in App-specific password field.
- Once you have entered the password, you need to:
- Click the box "I agree to the Cronofy Terms of Service and Privacy Policy".
- Click "Link Apple Account"
- Yaay! You have your calendar connected to your Boober account. 🎉
- A critical step here is to select the sub calendar that you want to add your Boober Appointments to.
If you leave this empty, you won't be able to see the interviews that we create on your calendar. Select "Work" for example if you want us to add the appointments to this calendar.
- The last step is to select the sub calendar(s) you want the system to check to identify your availability. For example, If you're using a personal calendar to add reminders for the family birthday's, but you don't want to block your availability on these days. Then, unselect that personal calendar
Understanding The Calendar Views
Your Boober calendar has two views:
- Availability Configuration Calendar
- Availability Preview Calendar
Availability Configuration Calendar
This calendar allows you to set your recurring availability. Use this calendar to define your weekly working hours and days off. By default, you are shown as available Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Each 30 mins time slot is represented with a box.
- To close a slot, hover over a blue box and click the ✕. The box turns white (unavailable).
- To open a slot, click a white box and it turns blue.
- Changes are saved automatically.
Example: If on Mondays, you work 9 a.m.–6 p.m., rather than 8 a.m.–5 p.m. And, you have a standing commitment—say a 90-minute book club every Wednesday at 11 a.m.
- Mark 8 a.m.–9 a.m. as unavailable
- Add 5 p.m.–6 p.m. as available.
- Mark 11 am - 12:30 as unavailable.
Availability Preview Calendar: This calendar gives you a week-by-week view of your actual availability, it combines:
- The schedule you set in the Configuration Calendar, plus
- Busy events pulled from your connected calendar.
You can navigate through past and future weeks to see your available times. Navigate to past or future weeks to verify everything looks right.
Any closed slots or personal events appear as unavailable here.
In this example:
- The preview calendar shows that you're unavailable on Monday, April 28, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m because that slot was closed for every Monday in the Configuration Calendar.
- You’re available on April 28, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., because that slot was opened in the Configuration Calendar.
- A blocked time from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. appears on Wednesday, April 30 due to a personal event
- An additional unavailable block on Monday, April 28 is from an event on from the connected calendar.
Your Calendar Events
The unavailable times on your calendar will not be shown on the Configuration Calendar. However, the system identifies these as unavailable, and that will be reflected on the Preview Calendar.
