Have Google change Chat status while in Meeting

[mtbhuskies]

Hi, 

Is it possible to have Google automatically change your Chat Status to DND while you are in a meeting tied to your Google Calendar? If the calendar event is set to you being "BUSY", it would be nice for Google to recognize that and set your Chat Status to DND, or at least have an option to toggle this feature on or off.

[JavedR]

YES YES YES!

[LORIAM]

I am also interested in this..can you explain how to achieve it?

[cescanda]

It would be great to update chat status according to calendar availability (Out of the office, holidays, working hours, etc.) as MS Lync does.

[Jan-Carlos]

Isn't this a new feature?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9811749?product_name=UnuFlow&visit_id=637762433718177067-4237520...

[LORIAM]

That "Set Calendar user status display" is just to display "Out of office" warning in Google Chat when trying to contact a person with out of office status set in calendar, but unluckily is not updating status as available/do not disturb when in a calendar meeting.

[mtbhuskies]

It's silly. They are talking to each other. Google really needs to add this functionality. It's a huge quality of life change, requiring very little effort on their part, IMO.

[icrew]

You might want to post this to the Feature Ideas section here (https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/gh-p/workspace-ideas-group) so that it can be upvoted by others and possibly considered as a future feature enhancement.

If you are submitting a feature idea, be sure to explain the problem that you're trying to solve with the feature idea, not just the idea itself. For example, saying "when my users are trying to do 'A', they often get confused by the fact that the buttons to do 'X' and to do 'Y' look quite similar to each other, which leads to this unintended consequence" is far more likely to get fixed than a feature idea that just says "change the color of the button 'Y'".

Cheers,

Ian

[mtbhuskies]

Thanks. It's been posted there in a couple of threads. Please upvote these.

First Thread

Second Thread