[SOLVED] setting work hours (hours of availability)

[w00005414]

We are evaluating Zimbra as a calendar server to replace Meeting Maker. Meeting Maker has a nice feature where you can set your work hours (also called "hours of availability"). This is so if someone tries to schedule a meeting with you when you are not scheduled to be at work it will let them know. Is this possible within Zimbra? I logged in as a web user and didn't see this option and I searched through the End User's Guide.

Thanks

[mmorse]

Welcome to the forums,

Vote: Bug 15427 - Ability to set working hours on a per-user basis

[w00005414]

Thanks for the quick reply on this!

[w00005414]

Originally Posted by mmorse

Welcome to the forums,

Vote: Bug 15427 - Ability to set working hours on a per-user basis

This is a hack but do you see an issue with setting reoccurring meetings every weekday morning from 12:00 am to 8:00 am and setting it to show as "out of office" and doing the same for a reoccurring meeting at night from 5:00 pm to midnight (and for all the hours of the weekend) and setting these entries to not display a reminder? It clutters up your calendar but it does seem to work when someone is looking at your free/busy time.

Thanks again,
Brian

[fowler]

Voted. Thanks for the bug id.

[nrc]

Originally Posted by w00005414

This is a hack but do you see an issue with setting reoccurring meetings every weekday morning from 12:00 am to 8:00 am and setting it to show as "out of office" and doing the same for a reoccurring meeting at night from 5:00 pm to midnight (and for all the hours of the weekend) and setting these entries to not display a reminder? It clutters up your calendar but it does seem to work when someone is looking at your free/busy time.

Thanks again,
Brian

A lot of folks in our office do this and it works fine. Shouldn't be necessary, but it works.

To avoid cluttering my calendar view I've created a separate calendar for these appointments called "Time Blocker". It's set to count against my free/busy time but not displayed by default.