Future Statuses are a nice way to show other Workplace users when you will be unavailable or out.
Outlook Add-in
If you have a recurring event (such as weekly meetings or quarterly vacations), you can synchronize your Workplace calendar with your Outlook Calendar to show these recurring future statuses. Simply follow these instructions:
- Open up Outlook and go to your Calendar by clicking .
- Create a New Appointment. The Appointment window will come up.
- In the Appointment Option, click on . This will bring up the Appointment Recurrence window.
- This window allows you to configure when your Future Status will occur. Let’s say you have a meeting every Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00AM to 10:00AM. You would then set up this Appointment Recurrence similar to the example above. You can also set events on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis. You can set events based on “The last Friday of each month” or “Every other weekday” and more.
- Once you are done configuring your recurring Future Status, click .
- Back in the Appointment window, be sure to configure your Workplace settings on the top-right. So if you were configuring a recurring Future Status for a meeting, you would set up your Workplace settings similar to the following:
- Lastly, be sure to configure your event. Enter in the Subject, Location (if necessary), and then details. You can also mark each event as private (to hide the details).
- Now all you have to do is create the event by clicking . You have now created a recurring Future Status in your Workplace!
For more information, see our guide on syncing Recurring Outlook Appointments