Out of office service activation with an run on se

Question

Is there an documentation or an easy solution how i can activate the out of office service in an user mailfile with an external run on server agent?

I tried it like this, but it does not work...

    Dim s As New NotesSession
    Dim db As NotesDatabase
    Dim doc As NotesDocument
    Dim dt As New NotesDateTime(Now)

    Set db = s.Getdatabase("SERVERNAME", "MAILFILE")

    Set doc = db.Createdocument()

    doc.AppointmentType= "2"
    doc.BookFreeTime = ""
    doc.CreatedByAgent = "1"
    doc.ExcludeFromView = "D"
    doc.Form = "Appointment"
    doc.From = s.Username
    doc.Principal = s.Username
    Call doc.Replaceitemvalue("$BusyName","")
    Call doc.Replaceitemvalue("$BusyPriority","")
    Call doc.Replaceitemvalue("$PublicAccess","1")
    doc.ApptUNID = doc.Universalid

    Call dt.Adjustday(-5)
    set doc.EndDate = dt
    set doc.EndDateTime = dt
    call dt.Adjustday(10)
    set doc.StartDate = dt
    set doc.STARTDATETIME = dt
    doc.Subject = "Out Of Office"
    Call doc.Replaceitemvalue("$UpdatedBy",s.Username)
    Call doc.save(True,False)


    Set doc = db.Getprofiledocument("OutOfOfficeProfile")
    Call dt.Adjustday(-5)
    Set doc.FirstDayOut = dt
    Call dt.Adjustday(10)
    Set doc.FirstDayBack = dt
    doc.CurrentStatus = "1"
    doc.GeneralSubject = "HE IS NOT AVAILABLE"

    Call doc.save(True,false)

Answer 1

This is the way how it works.

Dim db As NotesDatabase
    Dim doc As NotesDocument
    Dim dt As New NotesDateTime(Now)

    Set db = s.Getdatabase("SERVER", "MAILFILE")    

    Set doc = db.Getprofiledocument("OutOfOfficeProfile")
    Call dt.Adjustday(-5)
    Set doc.FirstDayOut = dt
    Set doc.StartTime = dt
    Call dt.Adjustday(10)
    Set doc.FirstDayBack = dt
    Set doc.EndTime = dt
    doc.CurrentStatus = "1"
    doc.GeneralSubject = "MESSAGE"

    doc.TaskState = "1"
    doc.CurrentSate = "1"
    doc.ShowHours = ""

    Call doc.Computewithform(false, false)

    Call doc.save(True,false)

    Call db.SetOption( DBOPT_OUTOFOFFICEENABLED, True)

Answer 2

UPDATE (changed answer from Out of office agent activation to Out of office service activation):

Look in MailFile ScriptLibrary OutOfOfficeLib in Class OutOfOfficeObj for method EnableService(). There is the code you have to adapt and put in your agent.

With the code line

Call db.SetOption( DBOPT_OUTOFOFFICEENABLED, True)

you activate the Out of Office service. There are some other settings you probably have to do in addition. Just follow the called methods in EnableService() and figure out what is really necessary.

Here is a good description how to activate and how to deal with issues with Out of Office service. Changes in users Out of Office service status e.g. might be visible only after sending the user an email.