Hi, I am having a bit of an issue with the Vacation Responder in the Google Settings API. I have built an application that uses the Gmail Settings API for my company to set up Vacation Responses for when people are out of the office and want an auto-reply. When rolling it out to the entire company, we encountered a pretty big issue.
When setting up an out of office reply through gmail there are a couple of different options to select. First, you decide whether or not to turn it on or off, then choose the start date. And then, there is an *optional input for an end date*. Herein lies the problem. We have previously had our IT department set up all out of office replies for everyone, so an end date was always selected for the out of office request. The problem is, the current configuration of the vacation responder remains turned on if the end date has passed. Thus, the API returns *enabled value of true even when the API is no longer sending automated responses*. I tried to* turn off the vacation responder using the API, but when it gets turned off, the end date remains*. Thus, the next time you try to use the API to enable the Vacation Responses, it will not work because the end date remains in the past and there is *no way using the api to retrieve/set the end date*. Please let me know if there is any way to resolve this or if there is another forum I should be contacting. Thank you for your help Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps Domain Information and Management APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-mgmt-apis?hl=en.
