My Lotus notes keeps marking me as unavailable, when I am not. I cannot figure out how to fix this. If someone schedules a meeting, they look at my calenda and its all blanked out as unvailable, even though I have nothing scheduled at all in my calendar.
To fix it, I normally have to enter new availabilty times (like toggle from 8am-6pm or 8am-7pm) and save it and then it clears my unavailability. However a week later, it changes all back again on it’s own to unavailable.
Any help on how to fix this? Thanks!
Subject: My Calendar keeps marking me unavailable
Have you found a resolution? I have the same problem.
Subject: Some ideas
Ok given that you find things work when you simply change your available work hours, I would say that the issue is the values stored on your Calendar Profile rather than busytime itself.
You can do a tell sched list Josie Smith/Acme console command and see the profile related info in busytime:
SchedMgr: Profile for josie smith/Acme (Busytime restricted: No, Details restricted: No, Opt out details: No, Profile last updated: 07/09/2009 12:04:55 PM)
SchedMgr: 05/18/2009 08:05:00 AM (Monday) - 05/18/2009 04:15:00 PM. (Monday)
SchedMgr: 05/19/2009 08:05:00 AM (Tuesday) - 05/19/2009 04:15:00 PM. (Tuesday)
SchedMgr: 05/20/2009 08:05:00 AM (Wednesday) - 05/20/2009 04:15:00 PM. (Wednesday)
SchedMgr: 05/21/2009 08:05:00 AM (Thursday) - 05/21/2009 04:15:00 PM. (Thursday)
SchedMgr: 05/22/2009 08:05:00 AM (Friday) - 05/22/2009 04:15:00 PM. (Friday)
SchedMgr: Done listing schedule entries
This should match what is on your Calendar Profile:
Unless Sched is not running then it should always be in sync. If Sched is running and they are out of sync then you should open a ticket with Technical Support so we can work with you to dive deeper.
If they are in sync but the values are not what you set then I would suspect that the values were either changed by restoring some old replica somewhere or it is being tweaked by some Agent or other task. You can use NotesPeek to see who is in the $UpdatedBy field of your Calendar Profile and check the $Revisions item to see when it got changed and then go from there.
Bruce
IBM
Subject: Try following
Tell sched validate "your canonical name"Check Notes log or Admin console for any errors
Tell sched list “your canonical name”
Check Notes log or Admin console for any errors.
Check entries listed to make sure no entry has been inadvertently created that repeats 24 hours a day.
Check for repeat entries that are created too far into the future e.g 2090. Known to mess up the busytime [I think there is a Technote too].
Check your busytime one year from now - still appearing busy? If not, then chances are the erroneous entry is before that date.
You can also delete your entry in the busytime or clubusy.nsf and then run tell sched validate. Your busytime entry will be recreated.
RM
Subject: My comments
A couple quick comments on those suggestions:
The validate command has NO effect on correcting entries. It only makes the Schedule Manager validate the name against the NAB and if it is ‘valid’ then Sched will watch for future updates. It has no effect on missed data. (It was added in R5 to help with R&R / new user cases where the NAB was not yet updated for Sched and we wanted to get things back in sync w/o watiing for 2AM)
The check command will cause Sched to go and compare the users calendar against the busytime data and get the two back in sync. Use this up front and see if resolves the problem.
Busytime does not care if an entry is longer than 24 hours. It will accept an entry up to ~6 months long for each instance!
Busytime does not care how far out you want to schedule something. If you are very optimistice about your chances, you can certainly have entries on your Calendar and in Busytime that go out for decades and hundreds of years.
If you are a reproducible case and this reoccurs I strongly suggest you open a ticket with Tech Support so we can dive deeper on the root cause.
Bruce
IBM