# Calendar

Calendar action block is used for collecting date from the or for booking appointments

**When should you use this?** 

* Collecting a date from the visitor
* Booking appointments 

**How do I set it up?** 

Setting up 'Calendar' action block

To set up the 'Calendar' action block, you can follow the following steps; 

* Add action block on canvas by clicking on '+' 

* Choose 'Calendar' 

* Configure following on right panel 

* **Date Selection:** Configure the following under 'Date Selection' in the configuration message; 

1. **Show Message:** You can set the message that you would like to send to the visitors along with calendar to book the appointment 
2. **Define Variable:** Define variable in which the response of the visitors will be stored 
3. **Date Selection:** Select nature of date selection from available options . You can enable 'Show Past Dates' to show the visitors past dates 

* **Exclude Dates:** Select the 'Exclude Dates' tab and define any exclusion of dates that you don't want to be visible in the calendar UI. You can exclude dates by either; 
  * Selecting the days all together like Saturdays, Sundays etc.. This way all of these will not be selectable to the visitor. 
    * Selecting special dates like Christmas, Diwali, EID etc.. 


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