Drop a Google Calendar into any section of your Touch Stay guidebook to let your guests know about events and other important dates.

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Open Custom Elements and click New Custom Element:

Select Google Calendar 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 the Google Calendar 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, find the embed code for your Google Calendar. On the desktop version of Google Calendar, click the Settings cog, click Settings and then on the left menu click your calendar name, then Integrate calendar. Copy the embed code there, paste it into the Google Calendar embed code box in Touch Stay and click Save.

To insert the Google Calendar into your guide, open the topic you want to add it to (new Hub: open the guidebook and go to the Guidebook Content tab; legacy Hub: Content Hub). Put your cursor where you want the calendar to appear. Click Custom Element in the editor toolbar, select the relevant element code name from the dropdown and click Insert. Then save the topic (new Hub: Save Changes; legacy Hub: Save).

This will place your custom element code into your topic content, and when you preview the guide it will be replaced by your chosen calendar.

If your embed code isn't being accepted then the most likely reason is that it's the wrong option. Google Calendar offers a few different sharing options and we need the standard embed code from Integrate calendar, as shown in the screenshots above (it points to Google Calendar's embed address). If this still doesn't work, or you can't find it in your Google Calendar account, then please contact support and send us a screenshot of the Google Calendar share options that are available to you.

The Google Calendar 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 Google Calendar. However, the window isn't able to detect the size of the source calendar and you may wish to adjust the height of the window to better match your calendar. Open Custom Elements (see the path above), use the 3 dots menu next to the element and select View/Edit, then adjust the Standard element height. 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.

On the legacy Hub, yes. This could be useful if each property has its own calendar. Go to Guides and click the name of the guide. Scroll down to the Guide Custom Elements card at the bottom of the Guide details page and click Edit. In the Edit Custom Elements (this guide only) window, paste the embed code for this guide and adjust the element height as needed. This card only appears if you have more than one guide and at least one Custom Element.

The new Hub has no per-guide screen yet, so you can't set a different calendar for each guidebook there. Values you already set per guide in the legacy Hub still apply to your guests; to see or change them, switch back to the legacy Hub. Note that if you're an owner, admin or team admin, switching to the legacy Hub also turns Guidebook 2.0 off.

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