How to embed Calendly in your guide
Drop a Calendly into any section of your Touch Stay guidebook to let your guests know about events and other important dates.
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Step by step: How to add a Calendly to your Touch Stay guidebook
Go to Settings > Custom elements and click 'New custom element'
Select Calendly as the 'Third party service'. An 'Element code name' will be generated. This is the code that you will insert in your guide where you want Calendly to show. You can change the name to whatever you wish to make it easier to identify each custom element you add. Only letters, numbers underscores or hyphens can be used - no special characters or spaces.
Next, copy the embed code for Calendly. This can be found in your Calendly account under the sharing options for your form. Copy the sharing link then paste into the 'Calendly link' box in your Touch Stay account. Click 'Save'.
To insert the Calendly link into your guide, go to Content Hub and open the topic you want to add your Calendly to. Put your cursor where you want the Calendly link to appear. Click 'Custom element' in the toolbar, select the relevant Calendly custom element code name from the dropdown and click 'Insert'.
This will place your custom element field code into your topic content and when you preview the guide it will be replaced by your chosen calendar.
Trouble Shooting FAQs
My link isn't being accepted when creating my custom element, what should I do?
If your link isn't being accepted then the most likely reason is that it's the wrong link. Calendly offers a few different sharing options and we just need the basic share link. If this still doesn't work, or you can't find it in your Calendly account, then please contact support and send us a screenshot of the Calendly share options that are available to you.
My calendar doesn't display fully or has lots of empty space beneath it, what should I do?
The Calendly will be added to your guide using what's known in web development as an iframe. This technique creates a window in your guide to the Calendly. However, the window isn't able to detect the size of the source Calendly and you may wish to adjust the height of the window to better match your calendar. This can be done by editing the custom element from the Custom Elements tab of the Settings page. Use the 3 dots menu and select ''View/Edit, then adjust the 'Standard element height' value accordingly. You may find it useful to have your guide preview open in a separate tab so you can refresh the page after changing the height in case it needs further adjustment.
Can I have a different variation of the calendar for each of my guides?
Yes, you can set a different value for the link for each guide. This could be useful if you have a Google calendar with parameters to pre-fill values such as your property name or id. Go to Guides. Click on the name of the guide you want to add a custom element to.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Guide details page and click 'Edit' next to the 'Guide custom elements' section. Paste the link to your custom element in the relevant custom element box and adjust the element height as needed. This will adjust the custom element for this guide only - Note this option is only available if you have more than 1 guide in your account.