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DaveH2
Sep 22, 2020Copper Contributor
Microsoft Bookings-Staff Member Availability Different Across Services
In Bookings, can a staff member have differing availabilities across different services? For example, on one service a staff member should be available basically all day. But on another service t...
MSUM_Clifferton
Mar 20, 2023Brass Contributor
I just thought of another workaround that will work for some, but not all. If you are the administrator for your account, you could create service accounts that will appear in bookings as a different/duplicate staff member. If that service account is listed under the original account as an alias, I believe that all calendar events and emails will be routed to the original account.
gbickert
Mar 21, 2023Brass Contributor
MSUM_Clifferton that won’t work. You have to connect it to a user calendar. It won’t allow an alias to be selected. That my friend would be another obvious flaw in the programming decisions by MS on this. But, it would not necessarily addressed the topic at hand.
- MSUM_CliffertonMar 22, 2023Brass Contributor
A service account should have a user calendar, right? What I don't know is if a service account can be made an alias to another account. It sounds like you're saying it can't.
Another, more complicated, idea is to create the service account and then use the new bookings connector and power automate to sync the two user calendars. sounds like a lot of work, but someone might find it worthwhile.