Calendar¶

Odoo Calendar is a scheduling app that allows users to integrate a company’s business flow into a single management platform. By integrating with the other apps in Odoo’s ecosystem, Calendar allows users to schedule and organize meetings, schedule events, plan employee appraisals, coordinate projects, and more – all from the same platform.

Upon opening the Calendar app, users have an overview of their current meetings. The selected view option appears as a Day, Week, Month, or Year drop-down menu. Under the view options drop-down menu, users can also enable or disable Show weekends.

Sync third-party calendars¶

Users can sync Odoo with existing Outlook and/or Google calendars, by heading to Calendar app ‣ Configuration ‣ Settings. From here, enter Client ID and Client Secret. There is also an option to pause synchronization by ticking the checkbox, or automating synchronization by keeping it blank.

Once the desired configurations are complete, be sure to click Save before moving on.

Events created in synced calendars automatically appear across the integrated platforms.

Create activities from chatter¶

Instantly create new meetings anywhere in Odoo through an individual record’s chatter, like in a CRM opportunity card or task in the Projects app.

From the chatter, click on the Activities button. In the Schedule Activity pop-up window, select the desired Activity Type, which populates a set of buttons, depending on the activity.

Activities that involve other schedules, like Meeting or Call for Demo, link to the Calendar app. Select one of these activities to link to the Calendar app, then hit Open Calendar to navigate back to the app. Alternatively, it is also possible to Schedule & Mark as Done to close out the activity, or select Done & Schedule Next to keep the Schedule Activity window open to create another.

Plan an event¶

To put an event on the calendar, open the Calendar app, and click into the target date. On the New Event pop-up window that appears, start by adding the event title.

The target date auto-populates in the Start field. This can be changed by clicking into the date section, and selecting a date from the calendar. For multi-day events, select the end date in the second field, then click Apply.

Tick the All Day checkbox if there is no specific start or end time.

For events with specific start and stop times, ensure the All Day checkbox is unticked to enable time selection. With the All Day checkbox unticked, time selections appear in the Start field.

The signed-in user auto-populates as the first attendee. Additional Attendees can be added or created from here, as well.

For virtual meetings, copy and paste the URL into the space provided in the Videocall URL field. Or, click Odoo meeting to create a link.

Next, either create the event by clicking Save & Close, or select More Options to further configure the event.

The Description field allows users to add additional information and details about the meeting.

Click More Options to navigate to the meeting form, which provides additional configurations for the event:

• Duration: Define the length of the meeting in hours, or toggle the All Day switch.

• Recurrent: Tick the checkbox to create a recurring meeting. Once selected, this opens new fields:

  • Timezone: Select the timezone for which this meeting time is specified.

  • Repeat: Select the recurring period of this meeting. Depending on what type of recurrence has been selected, a subsequent field appears, in which users can indicate when the meeting should recur. For example, if Monthly is selected as the Repeat option, a new field appears, in which the user decides on what Day of Month the meeting should recur.

  • Until: Select the limited Number of repetitions this meeting should recur, the End date of when the recurrences should stop, or if the meetings should recur Forever.

• Tags: Add tags to the event, like Customer Meeting or Internal Meeting. These can be searched and filtered in the Calendar app when organizing multiple events.

• Appointment: Link existing or new appointments. These can be configured through the Share Availabilities button from the main Calendar dashboard.

• Privacy: Toggle between visibility options to control who can view the event.

• Organizer: This is defaulted to the current Odoo user. Select a new one from existing users, or create and edit a new user.

• Description: Add additional information or details about the meeting.

• Reminders: Select notification options to send to attendees. Choose a default notification, or configure new reminders.

Coordinate with teams’ availability¶

When scheduling an event for multiple users, on the Calendar app dashboard, tick the checkbox next to Attendees to view team members’ availability. Tick (or untick) the checkbox next to listed users to show (or hide) individual calendars.

Share Availabilities¶

On the Calendar app main dashboard, click the Share Availabilities button at the top of the page. Next, click and drag to select the available times and dates on the calendar to add them as options in the invitation.

Once availability has been selected, click the Open button to navigate to the associated appointment.

Several configuration options are available on the appointment form:

In the Scheduling field, set a minimum hour window to ensure appointments are confirmed a specified amount of time in advance. For example, set 01:00 to require attendees to confirm at least one hour before their appointment time.

In the Allow Cancelling field, set a maximum hour window before the appointment that attendees are able to cancel.

The Availability on field enables attendees to book Users or Resources, such as meeting rooms or tables. After selecting Users or Resources, type in the desired user or resource in the space below.

The Front-End Display field is used to choose No Picture or Show Pictures related to the selected user or resource on the appointment page.

If Resources has been selected in the Availability on field, users have an option to Manage Capacities.

Tick the checkbox to limit the maximum amount of people that can use the resource at the same time.

The Assignment Method field enables the order in which attendees book their time and user/resource:

• Pick User/Resource then Time

• Select Time then User/Resource

If Resources has been selected in the Availability On field, a third option is available, Select Time then auto-assign.

Optionally, configure the following tabs:

• Schedule tab

• Options tab

• Questions tab

• Messages tab

Click the Preview button to see how the appointment link looks for attendees.

Once the configurations are finished, click the Share button to generate a link to send directly, or click Publish to publish the appointment selection on the connected Odoo website.

Schedule tab¶

In the Schedule tab of the appointment form, time slots can be managed. The target date and time populate as the first time slots.

To add a new time slot, hit Add a line. Click into the new blank space under the From field, then select and enter the new target start date and time, respectively. Repeat under the new blank space under To to select and enter the new target end date and time.

Options tab¶

The Options tab provides additional configurations:

• Website: Specify which website this meeting invitation will be published on.

• Timezone: This defaults to the company’s timezone selected in the Settings app. To change the timezone, select the desired option from the drop-down menu.

• Location: Select or create new locations from the drop-down menu. If this field is left empty, the meeting is considered to be taking place online.

• Videoconference Link: Select from Odoo Discuss or Google Meet to include a video conference link in the meeting invitation, or leave it blank to prevent generating a meeting URL.

• Manual Confirmation: Only shown if Resources has been selected in the Availability On field. Tick the checkbox and enter a maximum percentage of the selected resource(s)’ total capacity to create a manual confirmation requirement to finalize the meeting.

• Up-front Payment: Tick the checkbox to require users to pay before confirming their booking. Once this is ticked, a link appears to Configure Payment Providers, which enables online payments.

• Limit to Work Hours: If Users has been selected in the Availability On field, tick the checkbox to limit meeting time slots to the selected users’ working hours.

• Create Opportunities: When this is selected, each scheduled appointment creates a new CRM opportunity.

• Reminders: Add or delete notification reminders in this field. Select the blank space for additional options.

• Confirmation Email: Tick the checkbox to automatically send a confirmation email to attendees once the meeting is confirmed. Select from the email templates or click Search More…, then New to create a custom template.

• Cancelation Email: Tick the checkbox to automatically send a cancelation email to attendees if the meeting is canceled. Select from the email templates or click Search More…, then New to create a custom template.

• CC to: Add contacts to be notified of meeting updates in this field, regardless if they attend the meeting.

• Allow Guests: Tick the checkbox to allow attendees to invite guests.

Questions tab¶

In the Questions tab, add questions for the attendee to answer when confirming their meeting. Click Add a line to configure a Question. Then select a Question Type, optionally add a Placeholder answer, and choose whether it is a Required Answer.

To learn how to create more comprehensive questionnaires, head to the Survey app documentation on creating and configuring data-capturing questions.

Messages tab¶

In the Introduction Message field of the Messages tab, add additional meeting information that appears on the invitation.

Information added to the Extra Message on Confirmation field appears once the meeting is confirmed.