📝 Overview
The Linked Schedules feature in SKED allows your office to connect multiple schedules so they work together instead of independently. By linking schedules, you can control how appointments across different schedules affect each other — creating more efficient scheduling rules that align with your office’s workflow and capacity.
🔗 Understanding Linked Schedules
Without the linked schedules feature, schedules are independent of each other.
For example, your office could see three appointments on the adjustment flow schedule every 15 minutes and two appointments on the evaluation schedule every 60 minutes, without those schedules communicating.
The Linked Schedules feature changes that — allowing individual schedules to interact and share limits based on your preferences.
💡 Example 1
This office would like to allow two evaluation (EVAL) appointments and no new patients, or one EVAL and one new patient.
Independently, these schedules are allowing for two EVALs and one new patient appointment per time slot.
This scenario can be made possible by:
Creating a link on the EVAL schedule stating that one appointment on the new patient schedule blocks off one EVAL appointment.
Creating a link on the new patient schedule stating that two appointments on the EVAL schedule will block a new patient from scheduling.
💡 Example 2
This office would like to allow one new patient and zero adjustments, or four adjustment appointments and no new patients at any given time.
Independently, these schedules are allowing for four adjustments in addition to one new patient.
This scenario can be made possible by:
Creating a link on the adjustment schedule stating that one new patient appointment blocks patients from scheduling adjustments.
Creating a link on the new patient schedule that prevents new patients from scheduling next to an adjustment.
✅ Key Takeaways
The Linked Schedules feature helps your office manage how different appointment types interact.
You can create custom linking rules to control availability between schedules.
This prevents overbooking and ensures balanced scheduling between appointment types.
Adjusting these links helps tailor SKED’s scheduling flow to your office’s unique needs.
📌 Conclusion
The Linked Schedules feature gives your office more control over how different appointment types are scheduled together, ensuring your availability reflects real-time capacity.
If you believe this feature may benefit your office, please reach out to our SKED Support Team for assistance.