Availabilitiy 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