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Insight Calendar Categories
HI VI_Migration, Categories applied to focus time are not used for insights. They are not used for teams status and do not control any behaviors other than categorizing the block with a certain color. A user can apply their own category to any focus block or any Outlook calendar event as they desire.
On a separate note we are actually in the process of deprecating automatically applied categories to focus blocks. They have often times led to user confusion. In the future the focus block will be applied without a specific category but the user will still be free to choose the category
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The Viva Focus Time previously used 'Green Category' looks to have been deprecated as mentioned above, but deprecated to me would mean not setting any category and being ambiguous to category.
Instead of providing users with the ability to set a category or no category in `insights.viva.office.com` `Protect time`,
It seems that viva now it sets the `focus time` items to null '' a 'no category' effectively removing the category setting and yesterday with the newly created 'no category' focus times I went and set a few to 'Green Category' and removed the alarm (as I like a little colour differentiation between my normal calendar tasks) but come back to my calendar today and they are all reverted to `no category` and alarms re-enabled.
This change hasn't solved anything it's just moved the problem from 'Green Category' to 'no category'.
Why not give users the option which was always the request, enable the flexibility of viva to give us some choice in how it's applied.