About
Show your Google Calendar on your screens, so everyone sees upcoming events, meetings and appointments. Make the calendar public, copy its link, and show it with our Website plugin. Choose a week, month or agenda view; changes in the calendar show up by themselves.
Get Started
Make your calendar public
- In Google Calendar on a computer, click the three dots next to the calendar, then Settings and sharing
- Under Access permissions for events, turn on Make available to public
See Google’s guide.
Show the calendar on a slide
- Under Integrate calendar, click Customize, choose the calendars and look, and enter the width and height of your plugin
- In Embed code, copy only the address (from “https” to just before the closing quotation mark)
- In the Play editor, add the Website plugin and paste the address
Show a week, month or agenda
- Add
&mode=WEEK,&mode=MONTHor&mode=AGENDAto the end of the address
Options
Click the Website plugin on the slide to see these.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Alignment and Cropping | Fit to canvas, align left, center, right, top, middle or bottom, and lock |
| Website | The address of the page to show |
| HTML code | Paste an HTML snippet instead. Where to find widgets |
| Pre-load website | Starts loading 15 seconds early so it’s ready. Turn it off for pages with an intro animation or autoplay video |
| Enable scrolling | Off by default (no scroll bar). Turn on to let people scroll on a touch screen |
| Refresh periodically | Reloads while the slide shows, besides each time the slide starts |
| Refresh Interval Seconds | Seconds between reloads |
| Zoom | Makes the page fit better |
| Positioning | Place it pixel by pixel |
| Sizing | Set its size in pixels |
| Add Script | Add scripts, for example to log in or click. See Website Scripting |
FAQ
Why doesn't the calendar show in the preview?
Some browsers block it in the preview. It still works on your player.
Do new events show up by themselves?
Yes, each time the slide shows. Turn on Refresh periodically to update it more often.
