Microsoft Outlook Calendar

To learn more about how Steady’s Microsoft Outlook Calendar integration works, see our Microsoft Outlook Calendar integration overview.

Set up: Personal connection

To connect your Microsoft Outlook Calendar:

1. Visit your Personal settings - Connections section, open the Microsoft Outlook Calendar section, and click on the Connect Microsoft Outlook button.
2. You’ll be prompted to pick your Outlook account and authorize Steady to read your calendars and calendar events.
3. Select which calendars you’d like to monitor from the dropdown menu. The sync is not retroactive, so the first events will be visible in your next check-in. (If it’s after your check-in time for the day, that will be your draft check-in.)

Set up: Workspace-level connection for company holidays

If your organization uses a shared Outlook Calendar to manage company holidays, you can connect it to Steady through Workspace settings -> Integrations.

Once connected, Steady will automatically sync holidays from the shared calendar. On these days, team members will not receive prompts for check-ins or goal updates.

How the sync decides what’s a holiday

Steady marks a holiday for every all-day event on the connected calendar, regardless of the event’s name or free/busy status. Multi-day all-day events mark every day they cover. The sync runs nightly and looks one month ahead, so new all-day events — and later days of long events — appear as they enter that window.

Because of this, only connect a calendar that contains company holidays and nothing else. A calendar that also holds travel, out-of-office, or birthday events marks those days as holidays too. Note that Outlook can create all-day travel events automatically from flight and hotel confirmation emails.

To remove a synced holiday, delete or shorten the event on the connected calendar. You can also unmark individual days in Account - Holidays — an unmarked day stays unmarked, but other days from the same event still sync.