How to set up an "Out of Office" event in Google Calendar with callin.io?

Hi , welcome to the Community! 🎉 

I did some checking on this end and found that we’ve got an open feature request for the ability to create OOO events. So I’ve gone ahead and added your vote to that feature request. While I can’t make any promises around when/if it will be added we’ll definitely send you an email notification once it is!

In the meantime, using Custom Actions (or an API Request (Beta) action) is a good way to go! It may just take a bit more tweaking to get the AI to set up the request as needed. But if you can share a screenshot of where you’re currently at with the set up of the action I’d be happy to take a look and advise what might need to be tweaked to get things working. Please remove/hide any private information (like names, emails, addresses etc.) from any screenshots before sharing.

For the request itself it looks like the Custom Action would need to use the Events: insert endpoint and set the eventType to outOfOffice:

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Just circling back in here to share that the ability to create an “Out of Office” type of event has now been added! 🎉

When using a Create Detailed Event action there’s you’ll see there’s now a Event Type field that has an option to create an Out of Office event:

To take advantage of this new feature please ensure you’re running the latest version of the Google Calendar app on callin.io: Update to the latest app version in Zaps

And if you run into any issues with it please let us know in the Community or reach out to our Support team directly and we’ll be happy to assist.

In the meantime, happy Zapping! ⚡