Introduction
A break is a block of time on your agenda where the meeting will adjourn / stop / pause or undertake an activity that is not formally part of the meeting. Examples might include:
lunch breaks
education sessions
attending an event
site tours
travel time
Worth knowing: Breaks presented as adjournments in exported shell minutes
Where your agenda includes a break, the shell minutes will include a notation that the meeting adjourned at the start time of the break and resumed at the end time of the break.
Worth knowing: Breaks can divide an attendee's invitations into multiple sessions
Where a break falls affects the calendar invitations attendees receive. Someone attending the whole meeting, or attending the vast majority of it and present either side of a break, receives a single invitation covering their whole time at the meeting. Otherwise a break divides their attendance into sessions, and they receive a separate invitation for each session they are attending. See Sending meeting invitations.
Key information about breaks
Breaks:
can be indented inside a section
cannot have any agenda block indented inside them
have a name and a duration and may include details - but do not have any action, paper or participants associated with them
will always be shown as a standalone item on your exported agenda, irrespective of whether they are indented inside a section or not
Adding a break to an agenda
Adding a break to an agenda is as simple as dragging a break block from the right hand side of the agenda canvas and dropping it onto the agenda canvas where you want it. For more information on agenda building, see Building agendas.
Configuring or editing a break
Once you have a break block on your agenda canvas, you can configure it or edit it by:
clicking the edit icon on the right hand side of the break, which will launch a side panel
editing the name and duration of the break and including details about the break if desired
either clicking Done or clicking out of the side panel
Deleting a break
To delete a break:
click the edit icon on the right hand side of the break, which will launch a side panel
click the Delete button
Quick editing a break name
You can also quickly edit the name of a break without opening the side panel by:
clicking on the break name
once you do this, it will become editable
once you have made your changes, press Enter or click somewhere else on the screen