Best practice: free/busy info

[jonallport]

Good morning all,

In order to finally get away from maintaining desk diaries/spreadsheets/wall calendars, and a Zimbra calendar, it would be helpful to have a simple way to do a free/busy search for a user/number of users from ZWC.

I know that I can get this from schedule view in a new appointment but the hope is that receptionists/department heads etc. will be able to do a quick lookup of who's in/out/free/busy.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this might be best achieved?

Thanks in advance

Jon

[ewilen]

For now, you could try sharing each person's calendar.

You might want to consider voting for Bug 36322 - ics freebusy feed and/or Bug 37836 - RFE: external web access to multiple users' free/busy times, viewable on a single page

The first would allow users to access free/busy info (only) in .ics form. You could then aggregate free/busy by subscribing to multiple "WebCal" feeds e.g. using iCal. It could probably also work with Lightning, Outlook, or certain web-based services.

The second would directly create an aggregated free/busy view for multiple users, in a web page.

[jonallport]

The second option is the one for me! I've voted.