This is a Google App Script to set vacation response in Gmail setting using Calendar's specific event
The setup will trigger this script to run once each day (preferred between 0:00 - 1:00 am) and go through your all day event and find "Vacation" (this is customizable) and set startDate, endDate, subject, body in the Gmail Vacation Setting.
The following Advanced Google Services need to be enabled before running this script. Please refer to https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/advanced
- Calendar
- Gmail
- Login to Google drive and create a new App Scriot
- Copy the Code.gs and paste into the new App Script
- On the calendar, book a chunk of all day event, (E.g. "PTO" or any thing you like, but make sure you change here). You can also change the subject and body if the response message.
- To test this standalone script, follow https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/standalone and choose
runordebug. - To schedule time trigger go to Resources -> Current project's trigger -> Add a new trigger -> Select to run
mainfucntion -> Time driven -> Set to run once a day from 0:00 am - 1:00 am (or your choice). To install trigger manually follow this link - To verify the result, go to Gmail->Setting, then scroll all the way to the end and verify Vacation responder is turned on with all the other field populated.
