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Configuring your out-of-office status

You can configure your out-of-office status. If you have the appropriate administrative permissions, you can also configure the out-of-office status of other users.

This is how it works 

  1. Go to the start page and click on your profile picture.

  2. Click Absence status.

  3. Select the user for whom you want to configure the out-of-office status.

    1. If you do not have administrative permissions, you can only configure your own out-of-office status. 

    2. If you have the appropriate administrative permissions (e.g. as a manager), you can also configure the out-of-office status of other users (e.g. employees who report to you).

      Note

      Managers are users who are entered as supervisors for other users, e.g. in d.ecs usermanagement. For users that are loaded from an LDAP directory, the LDAP attribute manager is used and automatically carried over.

  4. Enter a start time for the out-of-office period. Alternatively, click on the clock icon to enter the current time as the start time.

  5. Optional: Enter an end time for the out-of-office period. If you do not enter an end time, the out-of-office period is open-ended.

  6. Optional: Select a user as a delegate.

    Note

    Users entered as delegates inherit the permissions of the user who entered them as a delegate. Example: If you are a manager and you enter a delegate, your delegate can configure the out-of-office status of the employees who report to you.

  7. Optional: Enter an out-of-office message. If the configured out-of-office period overlaps with the delegate’s out-of-office period, you will receive a message explaining this.

  8. Click on Save. 

    If you have configured an out-of-office period for another user and the user has corresponding notifications set up, the user will receive a notification e-mail.