Calendar/Google Doc
Calendars and Google docs can be added by sharing a script from Google or Outlook.
Adding a Google Calendar
- In a slideshow zone, select the "Script" widget
- Select the Google Calendar option
- On a computer, open your Google calendar You can only get the code to embed in your website from a computer, not the Google Calendar app.
- In the top right, click Settings->Settings
- On the left side of the screen, click the name of the calendar you want to embed.
- Make sure this calendar is public
- In the "Integrate calendar" section, copy the iframe code displayed.
- Under the embed code, click Customize.
- There a many options you may want to customize such as changing the view to weekly or agenda.
Change the Width and Height to 1340x800 for the Calendar to fit nicely on the TV
- Choose your options, then copy the HTML code displayed.
- Return to Quickesign and paste your code in the Script box
- Optionally, enter a Width and Height. By default this will be the size of the zone. Leaving the width and height blank is recommended.
- Click Add Script which will add a slide to your slideshow. Give the system a couple minutes to generate the initial image
Adding an Outlook Calendar
- In a slideshow zone, select the "Script" widget
- Select the Outlook option
- open your outlook.com calendar
- Go to settings
- Search for Publish a calendar
- Select a calendar, Can view all details, then Publish
- copy the html
- Return to Quickesign and paste your code in the Script box
- Optionally, enter a Width and Height. By default this will be the size of the zone. For Outlook, enter a width of 1200 and height of 600.
- Click Add Script which will add a slide to your slideshow. Give the system a couple minutes to generate the initial image
Adding a Google Document
- In a slideshow zone, select the "Script" widget
- Select the Google Document option
- In Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, open a file.
- Click the Share Button on the top right and change the setting to "Public on the web - Anyone on the Internet can find and view"
- Click Done
- Click File, Publish to the web.
- Choose a publishing option: Spreadsheet: Publish the entire spreadsheet or individual sheets.
- Click Publish.
- Copy the Embed code
- Return to Quickesign and paste your code in the Script box
- Optionally, enter a Width and Height. By default this will be the size of the zone.
- Click Add Script which will add a slide to your slideshow. Give the system a couple minutes to generate the initial image
- More info from Google's help
Adding an Icloud Calendar
You can't directly add Icloud calendars to Quickesign. You can add them to a Gmail account then add the Google Calendar script.
Please see this tutorial:
Linking Apple Icloud Calendar to Google
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