User Settings - Crewting Slack App

In this article, you will find information about the various settings options for the Coffee-Break App for Slack users:

ℹ️ You can find the Crewting App in Slack here: Apps (left navigation bar in Slack) - Coffee Break Crewting - Home

Jump directly to a specific section:

• Link calendar
• Change availability
• Turn off calendar invitations
• Block people

Link calendar

Link your calendar in the app settings via Link calendar directly below your availability so that Crewting can take your personal appointments into account when planning Coffee-Breaks.

1. Open the Crewting app in Slack
2. Go to Home
3. You will find your availability below
4. Click on Link calendar
5. Connect either your Microsoft or Google calendar
6. Authorize the process
7. Click on Allow
8. That's it, your calendar is now linked

Change availability

You can use your availability to control when you are invited to Coffee-Breaks with your colleagues.

The default times are Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you don't make any changes, the default times will automatically apply.

Here's how to change your availability:

1. Open the Crewting app in Slack
2. Go to Home
3. You will find your availability below
4. Change your availability by clicking on the three dots on the right of the respective day and selecting Edit
5. You can then enter the desired time period
6. Confirm the process by clicking on Update
7. Apply this time period to other days by clicking on the three dots on the right of the respective day and selecting Apply to all days
8. Your availability will then be updated

Turn off calendar invitations

To stop receiving Coffee-Break invitations for your calendar via email, you need to change this setting under Notifications. Simply uncheck the box and you will no longer receive Crewting notifications via email.

Block people (anonymously)

If you don't want to meet certain people from your organization in Coffee-Breaks, you can also block them. For example, colleagues with whom you sit in the same office and interact with regularly anyway. This setting is anonymous and only you can see it.

How to block another user:

1. Open the Crewting app in Slack
2. Go to Home
3. At the bottom, you will find the setting “Colleagues I don't want to meet”
4. Click on Edit
5. Search for the person and select them
6. Click on Save
7. From now on, you will no longer be connected to this person

Updated on: 20/01/2026