Changing the Out of Office settings for a user

When appropriate, you can set your personal options to indicate that a user is unavailable to receive work and to designate a substitute user to receive the work items.

About this task

As an administrator, you can modify the personal options of the user to indicate that the user is able or unable to receive work, and you can change the currently designated substitute.

Tip: Changing the personal options of the user does not affect work currently assigned to that user. To reassign existing work items, use the Assign/reassign work option.

To change the Out of Office settings for a user:

Procedure

  1. From the Tasks menu, click Out of Office.
  2. From the first list, select the user whose settings you want to change.
  3. To indicate that the user is out of the office, select a substitute user from the list, and select the I am currently out of the office check box.

    To indicate that the user is back in the office, clear the I am currently out of the office check box.

  4. Click OK if done, or Apply to apply the changes and continue working in this window.