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Hi there!

I don't have a clear view of the impact of this request. Could you please describe how this feature would impact your organizational processes? Feel free to add as many examples as needed.

I understand that you want to create an out of office event if certains conditions are meeted (i.e. a precise email, a Sheet status…). You can currently do so by using .createAllDayEvent and the appropriate Workspace service. If this approach isn't valid in your scenario, please answer back by explaining why.

Thank you for your clarifications. I have reported this feature request to the appropriate team. Have a nice day.

Thanks, this can help!!! If will be implemented I share this JS script that can create automatically the focus time

function emergencies_time_recall() {
//generate emergencies time lock
  let numbers = 0;
  let working_date = new Date();
  let start = new Date(working_date.setHours(7,0,0,0));
  let end = new Date(working_date.setHours(21,0,0,0));
///prepares the cycle for the next 21 days on
  const Interval = 21;
  let i = 0;
  for (var days_count = 0; days_count < Internval; days_count++) {
    //Saturday or Sunday -> jump
    if (start.getDay()==0 || start.getDay()==6) {
      start.setDate(start.getDate() + 1);
      end.setDate(end.getDate() + 1);
      continue;
    }
    //local vars for flow control
    var create_emergency_time = true;
    let temp_array = null;
    temp_array = CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar().getEvents(start, end);
    //check if "Emergency Time" is already present
    for (i = 0; i< temp_array.length; i++) {
      if (temp_array[i].getTitle().indexOf("Emergency Time") > -1) {create_emergency_time = false;}
    }
    // if not 
    if (create_emergency_time == true) {setupEvent(new Date(start)); numbers++}
    start.setDate(start.getDate() + 1);
    end.setDate(end.getDate() + 1);
    
  }
  return numbers;
}

function setupEvent(date){
  //prepares the creation
  var j = 0;
  var startTime = new Date(date.setHours(9,0,0,0));
  var endTime = new Date(date.setHours(10,0,0,0));
  var event = null;
  //searches for an empty 1h in the calendar
  for (j = 9; j <= 17; j++) {
    startTime = new Date(date.setHours(j,0,0,0));
    endTime = new Date(date.setHours(j+1,0,0,0));
    if (CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar().getEvents(startTime, endTime) == 0) {
      // here we should create a focus time instead of a simple event to enable auto-decline
      ////////  This piece of code today does not work, it's an hypothesis how to implement the functionality
      event = CalendarApp.createEvent(">>>FOCUS TIME<<<", startTime, endTime, {type: CalendarEvent.EventType.FOCUS_TIME});
      event.setColor(CalendarApp.EventColor.PALE_BLUE);
      return;
    }
  }
  // creates a warning because no focus time is available today
  startTime = new Date(date.setHours(8,0,0,0));
  endTime = new Date(date.setHours(9,0,0,0));
  event = CalendarApp.createEvent("No FOCUS TIME today!!!", startTime, endTime);
  event.setColor(CalendarApp.EventColor.PALE_RED);
  return;
}

Just chiming in here: my company (https://reclaim.ai) would immediately use this for the Habits and Tasks that we create. They are, effectively, Focus Time, and would benefit from the capabilities Focus Time events offer.

For use case background: Reclaim's Habits and Tasks are dynamically adjusting time blocks that look at your overall schedule for the upcoming days and weeks and decide both on when to schedule them and when to "defend" them by marking them as busy (vs free) and potentially even auto-declining conflicts. We have effectively re-built some of the Focus Time and OOO capabilities that GCal provides and supercharged them, but we'd much rather just use the native feature.

Thanks!

What happened to this request wit a lot of votes? :(