032 - Detecting Out of Office Recipients using Power Automate

[@alisonrowe2221]

Hello Kent, thank you very much for this video. I am running into one issue, some employee who have their Automatic Replies turned OFF are still being routed as being ON. It appears that some employess return {,"automaticReplies": { "message": "" }}. These are showing as OOF, likely because the express is not 'empty', it has the "message": included. Employees who return only {,"automaticReplies": ""} correctly show as in office with your instruction. Any ideas?

[@waynepeinke]

This is pretty cool but we can take this idea further if the approval is being generated from a PowerApp. You could use this principle to generate an OOO check before a form is submitted and then prompt the user to select an alternative approver within your app. Or (I haven't checked yet...) but can you check for a mailtip directly from within PowerApps?

[@KentWeare]

Quite possibly - same connector(s) are available in Power Apps

[@gaganshrivastava4761]

Thanks Kent, Is there a way we can check if the email received on shared mailbox is an autoreply or not. i tested by checking the subject line of the email box(contains "Automatic reply"), however if the end user is using other language, we cant check for the above scenarios. can this be handled. thanks in advanced for any pointers.

[@akshay._.solanki]

Hi Kent, Thanks for sharing this great tip which I was looking for. For my org, I created a flow for manager's approval which is sent using O365 get user and get manager connector. How can I use this logic if the manager is out of office, the approval is sent to manager's manager. Thanks

[@KentWeare]

Take a look at this post. You can use Mail Tips to look for out of office www.serverlessnotes.com/docs/check-someone-is-out-of-office-outlook

[@longb1913]

that just checks if their auto replies are empty not if it's enabled or not. so if they typed something in auto replies but disabled auto replies then it still elevates...

[@KentWeare]

you can check the end time if that is a concern