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PatientNow Essentials/EnvisionNow: Setup Block Times

Setup Block Times

How to add block times

A Block Time is a period of time that employees may not be available to take appointments for reasons other than not being scheduled to work, or for note entry.

Creating a Blocking Time

  1. Right-click over a time slot on the calendar.
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  2. Choose to Add a Block Time.
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  3. The block time date and times will fill with the beginning highlighted time on the calendar.
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  4. You can select a block time type or add notes about why this time is being blocked. Block times can also be set to unusable or available for appointments.


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​Create Repeating Block Times

  1. Right-click over a time slot on the calendar.
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  2. Choose to Add a Block Time.
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  3. Select the Create Multiple Blocks tab at the top of the window.
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  4. Enter the options for the block time.
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  5. Set the date range and recurrence types.
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  6. Select to Save. This will create an ongoing block time for the information entered above.


Block times may be copied forward once a single block time has been created.

Right-click over an existing block time and block times can be edited, removed, copied, or converted into an appointment.


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​Removing Block Times

When removing a Block time which was created as a part of multiple blocks, you have the option to just delete the singular block or all associated blocks.

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