Availability view of other people

[ChristophWurst]

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Feature Request

As a Nextcloud user of an organization that does their daily work on Nextcloud I often miss a quick way to see if a colleague is available, or when they are back in case of unavailability. My current workaround is to start a new event in Calendar, add the person as attendee and open the free/busy view. Assuming that people do maintain their general availability and use the out of office feature for absence, this gives me a reliable insight.

I wish this same information was accessible more easily. The problem becomes more visible with colleagues who work part time and teams distributed across time zones.

Implementation

Add a UI component to render the availability of one single user. We might be able to just use the existing free/busy feature for this.
This UI could show at the profile, for example, or in the Calendar app.

Work packages

• Implementation
• Admin manual documentation (if applicable, e.g. to turn the feature off)
• User manual documentation

[jancborchardt]

Some ideas to make this easier:

• For an individual person, "See availability" should be an action in the avatar menu. This would just open the free/busy modal with availability of both you and the person.
• In calendar, there could be an entry in the left sidebar like "Team availability" which takes the team info from Contacts and/or account mgmt and opens the free/busy modal with you and all of the people in your team.
• Additionally, it would be nice if you can add arbitrary people in this modal to check their availability, e.g. if you need them for a call, or for support, etc.

In all cases it would use the existing free/busy modal so we don’t need to have so much new interface for it.

[jancborchardt]

@nimishavijay do you have additional ideas? :) And supporting mockups for this would be very good, as it’s part of this issue #43763

[marcoambrosini]

This was picked in planning, Nimisha could you start working on it?

[Mer0me]

It would be nice to be able to configure automatic status for remote work, too. And maybe a specific calendar category for this particular position : you actually work, but you cannot be present for a real meeting in an office room. I don't know if caldav protocol can handle this kind of precision.

Nextcloud could detect keywords ("Home work / remote work... don't forget translations too !) in calendar meetings and set the status accordingly. Alternatively it can be a specific category on the availability page ?

[alexanderdd]

related? #37815

[st3iny]

Yeah, seems related. We discussed showing the availability on a profile but deprioritized it for now. The profile is meant to be a public/external thing and the availability should be shown internally.

[alexanderdd]

(continuing discussion here #37815 (comment) )

[jancborchardt]

For an individual person, "See availability" should be an action in the avatar menu. This would just open the free/busy modal with availability of both you and the person.

As per discussion with @ChristophWurst, this approach is what makes most sense as it is available everywhere in Nextcloud.