- Google Calendar obtains appointment of the sidebar reservation
- It is designed for those who do not have full visibility in the calendar of a user
- Google Calendar and Gmail have also increased the integration of planning
Google makes the reservation pages of appointments directly accessible in its Calendar application side bar on the web and mobile in order to facilitate the search for a mutually active time.
The new Google calendar feature facilitates time booking, in particular for external contacts such as customers and partners, without having to share total visibility in your calendar.
Users without an appointment calendar will obtain a preconfigured booking page according to working hours that are automatically updated to avoid conflicts.
Google Calendar becomes a tighter planning integration
With calendants and others growing up in a hybrid, post-pandemic, Google has been busy in recent months more closely attached the calendar and Gmail to facilitate the planning of contacts together.
“By providing users with an easier way to reserve time with others, this change rations the planning process, which is particularly useful for customers, partners or people outside of an organization that may not have visibility in the calendar of another,” wrote Google.
A mobile view of the preconfigured booking page only becomes available on mobile after being consulted on the web, said Google in a product ad. Most of the main functions, such as the creation, editing and deletion of booking pages, are limited only to the web.
Rendez-vous planning has already started to deploy on all Google Workspace customers as well as individual workspace subscribers and personal account holders, and will be widely available by early September 2025.
The latest update comes shortly after the company also added the support for the Google Calendar appointment page to Gmail.
For this, users will have to click on the calendar icon at the bottom of a draft by e-mail to create a reservation page which can be inserted directly into the body of the email.
This feature is now fully deployed on the same types of accounts.
