More Lotus Notes calendar tips: Add Holidays and automatically enable Out Of Office
Mat Newman July 9 2012 09:30:00
One of those great 'hidden' features in Lotus Notes is the ability to have your Out Of Office automatically enabled by creating a calendar entry.Here's how:
1. Create a new Calendar entry with 'All Day Event' as the type,
2. Make sure you don't have 'Mark Available' (Pencil In for Notes <=7) selected so your schedule is blocked out and others don't invite you to a meeting,
3. Set the repeating dates to mark out all the days in your Lotus Notes Calendar,
4. Ensure you choose the 'Vacation' option in the Category field,
Figure 1: Setting up the Calendar entry to make yourself busy and enable OOO
![Settings to mark yourself busy and enable OOO using your Lotus Notes calendar - click to enlarge](http://matnewman.com/Webs/personal/matblog.nsf/MatNewmanEnableBusyandOOO1.png)
5. Save and Close,
6. You will be prompted to enable Out Of Office, choose 'Yes'
7. Set your OOO preferences and 'Enable and close'
Figure 2: Choose 'Yes' to the OOO prompt
![Choose 'Yes' at the prompt to enable your OOO settings](http://matnewman.com/Webs/personal/matblog.nsf/MatNewmanEnableBusyandOOO2.png)
Lotus Notes has some really great features, this is one of my personal favourites. Enjoy :-)