Freebusy across multiple personal calendars

[thecowster]

Hi there

We recently upgraded to 11.4. Looks nice

We are designing a system whereby our HR system can inform our Scalix system about sickness absence so that freebusy information will always include this info. (Currently its possible to arrange a meeting with someone who is off sick...)

In order to avoid polluting the absentee's calendar with auto-generated entries, it would seem more elegant to have a dedicated secondary calendar per user in which these events could be stored.

But currently it seems that the freebusy info only shows the entries from the primary calendar. Is there a way to "opt-in" other personal calendars so their data is included in freebusy lookups?

Cheers
Andy

[thecowster]

I notice in the API guide that its possible to update freebusy info directly (bypassing the calendars). This could be a solution - but we also need to automatically set out-of-office notifications forabsentee's - and AFAIK this can only be done on the day of absence using sxaa (ie, not in advance). A script that uses the freebusy information to determine whether to set the ooo notification would not be able to know if the events related to absence or not.

Therefore if we use direct writes to freebsuy this only solves the meeting scheduling part of the problem. For the other (async sxaa for ooo) we would have to either use a personal calendar - or store the data in a mysql db somewhere.

Is there a more elegant way to do this?