Going on Holiday? The easiest way to set your IBM Lotus Notes Out-Of-Office AND block your calendar as BUSY
Mat Newman December 21 2012 12:05:41
There are currently loads of social posts about people heading off on their annual vacation (Holiday for those outside the US). Lotus Notes has a really EASY way to set both your Out-Of-Office (OOO) and block out your calendar so that you co-workers inviting you to a meeting see that you are unavailable. All you need to do is create an all day event in your Notes calendar:Here's how:
1. Open your calendar,
2. Click the drop-down arrow on the Action Bar next to NEW
![Calendar-Action Bar - New - All Day Event](http://matnewman.com/Webs/personal/matblog.nsf/OOO-Step1.png)
3. Choose "All Day Event"
4. Give your event a title (eg: Mat, Annual Leave),
5. Choose your start date
6. Choose your end date
and the key step!
7. Choose Vacation in the Category field
![Start, End, Category - VACATION](http://matnewman.com/Webs/personal/matblog.nsf/OOO-Step2.png)
When you create an All Day Event with the Vacation category, Notes will prompt you when saving the event whether you want to also enable your OOO!
![OOO - Yes!](http://matnewman.com/Webs/personal/matblog.nsf/OOO-Step3.png)
The beauty of this tip, because an All-Day-Event also blocks out your calendar as "Busy" co-workers inviting you to a meeting will see that you are not free.
Enabling OOO and marking yourself as busy - Easy! :-)