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Calendar display settings change how Blades looks on your device. A calendar subscription lets another calendar app read your assigned sessions.

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Change the calendar display

  1. Open Settings and select View.
  2. Choose the first day of the week and the start and end hours you want to see. The first day also controls weekly training outline groups.
  3. Return to your calendar to check the display.
These preferences are saved in this browser. They do not change session times or sync automatically to another browser or device. If early or late commitments seem missing, expand the visible hours. View settings also include calendar overlays. Organisers can choose crew busy times, darkness, Cam Conservancy events and Rule 11 information through Layers in the crew calendar. See Check availability and river information for what those layers mean and their limits.

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Change table row spacing

In Settings → View, choose Compact, Standard or Spacious under Table row spacing. Compact is the default. This preference applies to the shared tables, including personal and crew training outlines. Table spacing is saved with your account and follows you to another signed-in browser or device. The calendar display preferences above remain local to the browser.

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Subscribe to your sessions

Open Settings, then Sync. Choose one of the following methods.
Select Subscribe to calendar. Your browser asks to open a calendar app that supports calendar subscriptions. Follow that app’s prompts to add the feed.If no suitable app opens, use the copied-link method instead.

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What the feed contains

Your personal feed includes assigned sessions across your clubs for the past 90 days and the next 365 days. Events include session times and details such as the course, equipment, participant assignments and outing plan where provided. The feed is read-only. Editing an event in another calendar app does not update the session in Blades. The feed contains assigned sessions, not your personal busy-time entries.

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When changes appear

Changes can take up to five minutes to reach the feed. Your calendar provider may refresh less often, so the total delay can be longer. If your app lets you choose a refresh interval, choose one that suits how you use the schedule. Check My schedule in Blades for the current plan before an outing, particularly after an organiser changes it.
Anyone with your calendar link can read its contents without signing in to Blades. Treat both the link and the displayed token as private. Avoid posting them in group chats, screenshots or public calendars.
If you share the link accidentally, replace it. Open Settings, then Sync, and select Replace calendar link. Blades asks you to confirm, then issues a new token. The old link stops working straight away, along with the cached copies of the feed Blades holds for it. Every device subscribed to the old link stops receiving your sessions, so subscribe again with the new link on each of them. Two things replacing the link does not do: it does not remove sessions your calendar app has already downloaded, and removing a subscription from a calendar app does not replace the link. If you think someone else has your link, replace it.