We have been receiving reports from users outside of Central European Time that AutoOOO would sometimes activate a day too early, or fail to activate at all on the right day. The culprit turned out to be a timezone issue in how the add-on was looking up calendar events: it was using the script’s own timezone to determine what “today” is, rather than the user’s. For someone in Tokyo or São Paulo, that is quite a few hours off.

AutoOOO, or I should rather say I, was interviewed recently in Google’s Developer Spotlight series. I wrote about it here.

We do not receive a lot of feature requests but, when we do, they tend to be great ideas. The feature we are going to be talking about was not suggested once, but twice (thank you Tanesha and Sander!): the ability to template the autoresponder message, which means providing you with the ability of using variables in your autoresponder that will be replaced at the moment of turning it on. This is better understood with a generic example:

One of the great features of Google Workspace is the ability to install and manage apps for your entire domain. In this blog post, we will explain the steps required to install a Google Workspace app for the whole domain and why it is a good thing to do. Sign in to your Google Workspace Admin Console To install a Google Workspace app for your entire domain, you will need to sign in to your Google Workspace Admin Console.