Integrating your time-off categories with Google Calendar and Slack ensures seamless synchronization of your availability status across platforms.
This allows you to sync your availability based on time-off bookings in Productive directly to your Google Calendar or Slack, making your status visible to your team.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up and enabling the Status sync feature in Productive.
Admin Settings: Setting Up Status Sync for Time-Off Categories
When setting up or editing an existing time-off category in Productive, you can enable the Status sync toggle.
This allows you and your tean to sync the time-off status for this category to Google Calendar and Slack.
1) Navigate to Time-Off Category Settings
Go to the settings for the time-off category you want to sync by clicking on the existing category or creating a new one.
2) Enable Status Sync Toggle
Find the Status sync toggle within the time-off category settings and enable it.
User Settings: Enabling Status Sync in Integration Settings
After enabling the Status sync in the time-off category settings, ensure that this feature is also enabled in the individual integration settings for Slack or Google Calendar.
1) Go to App Marketplace
Navigate to Settings > App Marketplace.
2) Select Integration
Choose either Slack or Google Calendar integration (both syncs are possible).
3) Edit Integration Settings
Click on the Edit button for the selected integration.
Enabling Status Sync For Google Calendar
1) Enable the "Turn on status sync to create your time off events in Google Calendar" toggle.
2) Select the Google Calendar to sync the events to (handy if you have multiple calendars integrated).
3) Choose which time-off categories you want to sync (some, all, or none).
4) Click Save.
As a result, any approved time off in Productive will block out the selected days in your Google Calendar.
For more detailed information on configuring your Google calendar integration, visit this article.
Enabling Status Sync For Slack
1) Enable the Status sync toggle, which automatically syncs your status with Productive Time off events.
2) Choose which time-off categories you want to sync (some, all, or none).
3) Select Save.
As a result, any approved time off in Productive will be visible as your status in Slack.
For more detailed information on configuring Slack notifications and tasks, refer to this article.