Calendar

Open Integrations → Calendar → Configure to put your Deckbell dates in your calendar. Everything on this page is personal: every member sets up their own, and nobody else in the workspace sees your feed link or your calendar account.

There are two ways to do it, and you can use both:

• Calendar feed: a private link that any calendar app can subscribe to. Nothing to sign in to, and it works everywhere.
• Google Calendar or Outlook: connect your account for due dates that update the moment they change, and to schedule huddles with invitations.

Due dates

Set an issue's due date in its right sidebar, under the estimate and sprint. Click Set due date, pick a day, and hover the date and choose × to clear it. Board cards show the date, in red once it has passed.

Your calendar shows the open issues assigned to you that have a due date, as all-day events titled with the issue key and title (for example "HRB-142 Ship invoices"). Each event links back to the issue. Issues leave your calendar when they're done, archived, reassigned to someone else or their due date is cleared.

Calendar feed

Choose Create my feed link and copy the link. Then subscribe to it in your calendar app:

• Google Calendar: Other calendars → + → From URL, paste the link.
• Outlook: Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the link.
• Apple Calendar: File → New Calendar Subscription, paste the link.

The feed lists your open issues with due dates and, unless you turn off Include cycles, the workspace's current and upcoming cycles (each one from its start date to its end date). Calendar apps decide how often they refresh a subscription; it's usually every few hours, so a change in Deckbell can take a while to show up there.

Anyone who has the link can read the feed, so keep it to yourself. If it leaks, choose New link: the old link stops working at once and you subscribe again with the new one. Turn off removes the feed. The link also stops working if you leave the workspace or are deactivated.

Google Calendar and Outlook

Choose Connect Google Calendar or Connect Outlook and sign in. Deckbell adds a calendar called Deckbell · your workspace to your account, and only ever changes that calendar. With Google, Deckbell asks for access to the calendars it creates and nothing else, so it can't see your other events. Microsoft doesn't offer a permission that narrow, so Outlook asks for access to your calendars, and Deckbell still only writes to its own.

With Add my due dates on, each of your open issues with a due date is an all-day event that doesn't block your time and has no reminder. Changes in Deckbell (a new date, a new title, the issue being finished or reassigned) reach your calendar within moments. Turn the switch off to take them all out.

If you delete the Deckbell calendar yourself, Deckbell makes a new one the next time a due date changes. If your calendar stops accepting updates (for example, you removed Deckbell's access in your account settings), the page says so and offers Reconnect.

Disconnect removes the Deckbell calendar and its events from your account. You can connect one calendar account per workspace; connecting a different one replaces it.

Scheduling a huddle

In a channel or direct message, choose the calendar button next to the huddle button in the header (Schedule a huddle). Give it a title, pick the date, time and length, and tick the people to invite (everyone in the conversation is ticked to start with). You need Google Calendar or Outlook connected.

Deckbell puts the meeting in your Deckbell calendar and your calendar sends the invitations to the guests' email addresses, so they can accept or decline like any meeting. The invitation links to the conversation in Deckbell: opening it at meeting time offers Join for the huddle. A note in the conversation says when the huddle is.

Huddles themselves work as usual; see Chat.