Share and embed
What this page is — publishing a calendar so people outside your organisation can book time on it.
What it is for — turning a calendar into a booking page with its own address, and putting that page on your website.
The problem it solves — arranging a demo or a viewing by email takes several messages to settle a time. A booking page settles it in one visit, against the real availability of a real person.
Route: /org/orbits → a card's Share & embed button · Permission: Edit Orbit calendar
1. Turning sharing on
Sharing is off by default. Switch it on in the calendar's settings under Public Sharing & Booking — see create a calendar. Until it is on:
- there is no Share & embed button on the card;
- the public address returns nothing.
2. The public address
The page lives at /public/calendar/ followed by the slug you chose. Anyone with that address can
open it — there is no sign-in.
| Who can reach it | Anyone with the link |
| What they can see | The calendar's name, its purpose text, and free times |
| What they cannot see | Your existing events, their titles, or who is on them |
A visitor sees availability, not your diary.
3. Embedding it
The dialog gives a snippet to paste into a web page, so the booking page appears inside your own site rather than as a link away from it.
4. What decides the times offered
| Setting | Effect | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Available From / To | The daily window | Create a calendar |
| Working days | Which days are offered at all | Same |
| Resource selection | One fixed person, or the visitor chooses | Same |
| Existing bookings | Taken out of what is offered | Automatic |
Availability is calculated per resource. A calendar with no resources allocated, or set to Fixed with nobody chosen, shows a page with no times on it and no explanation. Allocate resources first — see calendar resources.
5. Field reference
| Field | Type | Required | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public URL Slug | Text | Yes | The last part of the address. Keep it short and stable |
| Booking Purpose | Text | No | A sentence shown under the calendar name |
| Appearance | Light / Dark, plus a colour | No | The page's theme |
| Booking identity mapping | Pickers | Guest email required | Which event fields receive the visitor's email and phone |
The address is built from the slug. Anyone holding the old link — in an email, on a page, in a signature — gets nothing after you change it. Choose one and keep it.
6. Don't confuse this with…
| What the visitor sees | Documented separately, for that reader — see the public booking page |
| What a booking does to your data | See what a booking creates |
| Page Builder's scheduling blocks | Those embed booking into a designed page. This is the calendar behind them |
7. Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause |
|---|---|
| No Share & embed button | Sharing is off for that calendar |
| The link shows an error | The slug was changed, or sharing was switched off |
| The page loads but offers no times | No resources, or the day is outside the working days — §4 |
| The times offered look wrong | See the public booking page |
More in troubleshooting.