# Calendar Set Up

Source: https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/calendar/calendar-set-up

> What to set up before you start using the Astalty Calendar.

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## Calendar Set Up Overview

You can use the Astalty Calendar straight away. Connecting an external calendar is optional, and lets you see your Google or Outlook events in Astalty and send your Astalty events to Google or Outlook. To set it up:

1. Connect your Google or Microsoft account.
2. Choose the **External Calendars** you want to see in the Astalty Calendar.
3. Choose your **Main External Calendar**, which receives the events you create in Astalty.

All three are done from your own profile: select your name at the bottom of the left-hand menu, then **My Profile**. The **Integrations** and **Calendar** tabs appear only on your own profile, so each user connects their own account and nobody can connect a calendar for someone else. Support Workers cannot use these tabs.

![The account menu opened from the user's name at the bottom of the left-hand menu, showing Sidebar Behaviour, My Profile, Training and Log out, with an arrow pointing to My Profile, which is highlighted.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/navigation-to-my-profile.png)

## External Calendar Integration

Open the **Integrations** tab. Select **Connect** on the **Google Integration** or **Microsoft Integration** card.

![The Integrations tab of a user profile, highlighted in the profile menu, with arrows pointing to the Connect buttons on the Microsoft Integration and Google Integration cards.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/calendar-integration.png)

Sign in and allow the access Google or Microsoft asks for. Once the connection succeeds, select **Configure your Google Integration** or **Configure your Microsoft Integration**. Astalty opens the **Calendar** tab, where you select the **External Calendars** you would like to see within your Astalty Calendar and your **Main External Calendar**. Selected external-calendar events are displayed in Astalty. Events created or updated in Astalty sync to the selected writable main external calendar. Edit Astalty-created events in Astalty; changes made only to their external copies do not update the Astalty record.

![The Calendar tab of a user profile, highlighted in the profile menu, with an arrow pointing to the External Calendars list of three Google calendars, one marked Main.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/user-calendar-settings.png)

For each step in detail:

- [Connecting your Outlook Calendar](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/calendar/calendar-set-up/connecting-your-outlook-calendar)
- [Connecting your Google Calendar](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/calendar/calendar-set-up/connecting-your-google-calendar)
- [Seeing Your External Calendar In Astalty](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/calendar/calendar-set-up/external-main-linked-calendar-settings): choosing calendars, the main calendar, and what Astalty reads and sends.