How to Block Your Schedule and Delete/Remove Single or Recurring Blocks

In the zHealth Calendar, providers can block specific time slots in their daily or recurring schedules by adding time offs, holidays, or vacation time as events, and patient appointments can be efficiently scheduled around them. When time off events change, you can easily remove the block in the Calendar Settings.

When to block your schedule?

If a provider needs to take a break at a specific time in a day or is out of the clinic for some hours, they can block the particular time slot in the calendar to prevent patients from booking appointments online around those time slots.

1. Watch Video Tutorial

2. Read Step-by-Step Instructions

A. How to Block Your Schedule for One Day

1. Hover the cursor over the Provider Name at the top right corner. A drop-down list opens. Click on the first option - Block My Calendar. A pop-up window opens.

3. The Block My Calendar window will open on the right side of the Dashboard. Now, enter the following details: a. Select Provider from the drop-down menu b. Enter the Reason for blocking your Calendar c. Select the start date and time when you want to block the calendar d. Select the end date and time when you want to block the calendar e. Click "Confirm". To block Calendar from your mobile device, follow the same steps as mentioned above and click Confirm (second screenshot).

B. Change/Edit Your Blocked Schedule

1. To change or edit your blocked schedule, click on the schedule. A pop-up window appears. Click on the "Change" button.

2. On the right side of the Dashboard, change "Block My Calendar" screen opens. Click on the start and end time on Calendar. It will turn green. The changed time will reflect on the Start Date & Time and End Date & Time section of the Block My Calendar screen. Click "Confirm" to change your blocked schedule. To close the Block screen, click the cross icon at the top right corner.

C. How to Do Recurring Blocks for Your Schedule

Providers can do recurring blocks for specific time slots in their schedule.

2. On the Block My Calendar dashboard, click on Recurring Block. A pop-up window opens.

3. Enter the following details: a. From the drop-down list, select the Provider Name for whom you want to block the recurring schedule. b. From the drop-down, first select the Start Time. Then select the End Time. c. Enter the reason why you’re blocking the calendar. This would help staff and patients to know why you’re not available for that time slot. d. Select Recurrence Pattern. If you select Daily - Enter the number of recurrence in a day in front of the box 'Every'. Or you can click on the radio button in front of the second option - Weekday' If you select Weekly - Click on the checkboxes in front of the day of the week mentioned on the screen. You can select all days or choose to select any specific day of the week. If you select Monthly - Enter the day of every month. Or you can select the monthly recurrence for a specific week of every month. e. Enter the range of recurrence. By default, the Start Date of Recurrence will be taken as the day when you set the recurrence block. You can choose to change it. Set the Recurrence End Date - End After or End By. For example, if you choose End by option, you can start end recurring blocks to end by the same day next week/month/year. If you select the option - End after - enter the number of occurrences, such as 2, 3, 4, 5... and so on. This will count the number of working days in your Calendar. So 5 occurrences mean a given time slot will be blocked for 5 consecutive working days. f.  Click OK to confirm. Now, you have successfully blocked recurring time slots in your calendar.

4. Finally, you will get a prompt showing the date and time for all the recurring blocks on the Calendar.

D. How to Delete or Remove Recurring Blocks from Your Schedule

When time off events change, you can easily delete the recurring blocks from your schedule.

1. Use the Calendar on the left side of the screen to click and display the day/date when your schedule is blocked.

2. Click on the blocked schedule, a pop-up window appears. Click 'Delete' icon to delete or remove the block.

3. You will receive a message - "This is a recurring provider schedule. Do you want to delete only this one or all the future schedules?". a. Click "Delete this schedule only" when you want to delete one schedule from the recurring block. b. Click "Delete this and all the future scheduled" to delete all recurring blocks.

E. How to Delete or Remove a Single (One-Day) Block from Your Schedule

When time off events change, you can easily delete the single (one-day) block from your schedule.

1. To delete a single block, double click on the blocked time. A pop-up will appear.

2. Click the "Delete" icon to delete or remove the calendar block.

3. You will get a prompt asking whether you want to delete the single block. a. Click "OK" to delete one block.

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