Syncing Kindred sessions to Outlook

View your Kindred sessions in your Outlook calendar.

Subscribe to your Kindred calendar to keep track of your supervision sessions alongside your other appointments.

To sync your Kindred sessions to Outlook:

1. Go to Calendar.
2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
3. Under Add Kindred sessions to your calendar, select Outlook.
4. In Outlook, the Subscribe from web window opens with your Kindred calendar link and name already entered.
5. Choose a calendar colour and icon, if desired, then select where to add the calendar.
6. Click Import.

Note: Outlook controls how often subscribed calendars refresh, so updates may not appear immediately.

Connecting your Outlook calendar to Kindred

Show your Outlook calendar busy times in Kindred.

Connecting your Outlook calendar helps you identify scheduling conflicts. Kindred flags any overlaps between your external appointments and Kindred sessions.

To connect your Outlook calendar:

1. Go to Calendar.
2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, click Connect Outlook.
4. Sign in to the Microsoft account you want to connect, if prompted.
5. Review the requested permissions, then click Accept.
6. Return to Kindred to view your connected Outlook calendar.

Note: Kindred only reads your busy times. Your appointment details remain private.

Selecting your Outlook calendars

Choose which Outlook calendars contribute busy times to Kindred.

If your connected Microsoft account contains multiple calendars, you can select which ones Kindred uses to identify scheduling conflicts.

To select your Outlook calendars:

1. Go to Calendar.
2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, find your Outlook connection and click Calendars.
4. In the Calendars to count window, select the calendars you want to include.
5. Click Save.

Note: Kindred only imports events marked as Busy. Events marked as Free will not appear as conflicts.

Removing your Outlook calendar

You can remove your connected calendar at any time and reconnect it later.

To remove your Outlook calendar:

1. Go to Calendar.
2. Click Calendar sync in the top-right corner of the page.
3. Under Bring your other calendars into Kindred, find your Outlook calendar.
4. Click the bin icon beside the calendar.
5. Click Remove in the confirmation window.

Note: Removing your Outlook calendar immediately removes its busy times from your Kindred calendar.