Easy steps to block your countries national holidays on your Appointy calendar
Its very easy to block all the holidays of your country from Google calendar to your Appointy calendar. Wondering how? Well here're the easy steps to do it
**Step 1:** In your GOOGLE calendar, create a new calendar under "_My calendar_" (in this example Import Holidays to Appointy).
Step 7:**** Under My Calendars, you will see "Import Calendar" link beside "create new calendar" link. Click on the Import Calendar link>> A pop up will appear where you can upload the downloaded ics file>> Also, make sure to choose the correct calendar to import it upon (in this case Click on the Import Holidays to Appointy)
**Step 10:** After clicking on the sync link, you will see all the fetched holidays from Google calendar. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the
Once you synchronized the events, Appointy will show a message "Successfully Synchronized (X# Events); Appointy was successfully synchronized with your Google calendar".
In case you have any issues setting it up, our support officers will be happy to share screens with you and set it up for you. You can reach us at contact@appointy.com OR also directly schedule an appointment from http://support.appointy.com for guided screen sharing session
**Step 1:** In your GOOGLE calendar, create a new calendar under "_My calendar_" (in this example Import Holidays to Appointy). 
**Step 2:** Under Other Calendars click on the "_Browse for Interesting Calendars_" option.
**Step 3:** From the list of Holidays calendar of various countries, Click on the subscribe link (in this example US HOLIDAYS calendar). Once subscribed it will appear under "Other calendars" (see US Holidays)
**Step 4:** Click on the calendar settings of US Holidays
**Step 5:** Click on the iCAl icon. It will open the link of that calendar. Click on it download a file in ics format
**Step 6:** Once your file is downloaded. Click on the down arrow of the MY CALENDARS>>Settings
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Step 7:**** Under My Calendars, you will see "Import Calendar" link beside "create new calendar" link. Click on the Import Calendar link>> A pop up will appear where you can upload the downloaded ics file>> Also, make sure to choose the correct calendar to import it upon (in this case Click on the Import Holidays to Appointy)
**Step 8:** You will get a notification of the number of events being imported to the calendar. In this case "85 events"
**Step 9:** Login to your Appointy admin console>>Go to MASHUPS>>Google Calendar>>Click on the "Synchronize with google calendar"
**Step 10:** After clicking on the sync link, you will see all the fetched holidays from Google calendar. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the 
button to sync the holidays.
Once you synchronized the events, Appointy will show a message "Successfully Synchronized (X# Events); Appointy was successfully synchronized with your Google calendar".
In case you have any issues setting it up, our support officers will be happy to share screens with you and set it up for you. You can reach us at contact@appointy.com OR also directly schedule an appointment from http://support.appointy.com for guided screen sharing session
Updated on: 24/12/2020
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