Shared half-days in Outlook?
October 21, 2020 10:47 AM Subscribe
How can I share a list of half-day holidays to my fellow Outlook users, similar to n Outlook.HOL file (which only includes full-day events)?
At work we get half-day Fridays in the summer. Yay! I want to make a file of these dates to share with my colleagues, so they will show up on their Outlook Calendars. (I already make a custom Holidays file with our paid time off, which everyone is grateful for. I go by this link, with good results:
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/calendar/outlooks-holiday-file/)
An Outlook.hol file only contains all-day events. I could create individual Meetings for each half-day, but that would be clumsy and also require them accepting a bunch of separate invitations.
Thanks for any suggestions!
At work we get half-day Fridays in the summer. Yay! I want to make a file of these dates to share with my colleagues, so they will show up on their Outlook Calendars. (I already make a custom Holidays file with our paid time off, which everyone is grateful for. I go by this link, with good results:
https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/calendar/outlooks-holiday-file/)
An Outlook.hol file only contains all-day events. I could create individual Meetings for each half-day, but that would be clumsy and also require them accepting a bunch of separate invitations.
Thanks for any suggestions!
The hol file format may be a red herring.
(I thought that undocumented extra column in the updated outlookhol_7130_5000_en-us.hol file available from Microsoft might be useful, but AFAICS it's a Hijri date indicator, not duration.)
posted by scruss at 11:04 AM on October 21, 2020
(I thought that undocumented extra column in the updated outlookhol_7130_5000_en-us.hol file available from Microsoft might be useful, but AFAICS it's a Hijri date indicator, not duration.)
posted by scruss at 11:04 AM on October 21, 2020
Best answer: If it's every Friday or another regular pattern like that, I would probably do it by sending an invitation for a meeting with recurrence set to "every Friday until [date]" so they only have to accept it once.
posted by Lexica at 1:02 PM on October 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Lexica at 1:02 PM on October 21, 2020 [3 favorites]
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We also have some half day holidays complicated by the half day starting at local time across a pile of different time zones. Our calendar has these marked as full day holidays, but the name of the holiday is HALF DAY 1PM LOCAL TIME. It gets the job done (nearly) but it ain't cute.
posted by phunniemee at 10:59 AM on October 21, 2020