How to set automatic out of office and make sure you don't overwrite the current one
When working on part time schedule you need to think about enabling your out office before your free day. Of course, this is something you just forget. Luckily there is Power Automate with tons of articles how to enable automatic replies.
It work fine, till you go for longer holidays and you find out that your out of office message which you set up for the whole time of your holidays got overwritten by your automation.
Luckily with simple fix to your flow you can change it.
Starting from beginning.
2. Then you need to select on which days your flow needs to run. If you ie don't work on Tuesday you select Monday evening (ie 18:00) when you want to run the flow:
3. You would first like to check if there is already out of office reply setup. That you can do by using action Get mail tips for a mailbox (V2) and writing your email address:
4. Apply for each value
5. Use compose to retrieve automatic replies
6. Now in condition you are checking if your output of compose is empty
7. if it's true you can use action Set up automatic replies (V2)
It did a work for me. Whole flow looks like:
Thanks for the tip! I have some Fridays of in December, I'm going to try it ??