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OfficeRnD Workplace for Google Calendar Extension – Features Explained
OfficeRnD Workplace for Google Calendar Extension – Features Explained
Updated over a week ago

With the OfficeRnD Workplace for Google Calendar Extension set up, you can begin exploring its convenient features.

The extension only works when using Google Calendar in Google Chrome.

Disabling third-party cookies may prevent the Chrome extension from working.

Show or hide the header

Open Google Calendar. The extension is presented as a header placed on top in Week view. Note that only the Week view is supported by the extension.

You can show or hide the header anytime you want. Simply click on the button with the Workplace logo (1):

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View and book desks

There are two ways to view and book desks from Calendar.

1. Click Create and select Desk booking:

Create

2. Click Book desk under your date of choice:

Book

Either way, you will be taken to the Office Map. Here, you can choose a location and view the available desks. Click on an unoccupied desk (marked green on the map), set your booking hours (optional), and click Book.

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The More Options button lets you create recurring bookings, invite guests and visitors, and make a private booking (hide it from the schedule). You can also cancel the booking (cancellation policies may apply) and switch desks.

When you have booked a desk, you can click where the Book desk button was to find your desk on the office map:

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See Who's In

At a glance, you can see how many people are on-site on a given date and in which location:

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Mouse hover, and a list with the co-workers you added as Favorites will appear, showing those on-site:

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Click to open the complete list of co-workers who will be present:

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You can also click on the cogwheel to manage your list of Favorites:

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View meetings

Below your co-workers is a summary of the on-site meetings scheduled for the day. On-site meetings are Meeting rooms booked in OfficeRnD. They don't create Google Calendar events. Meetings booked in Google Calendar are treated as regular Calendar events.

You can hover over the meetings, and a tooltip will appear with the list of meetings booked in OfficeRnD.

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