Events of subscribed calendars should show up in the free/busy window

[AxelStieglbauer]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Events of subscribed calendars can't be considered when arranging appointments using the free/busy window.

Nextcloud was recently introduced in our school (for teachers and students) and we plan to use Nextcloud Calendar for teachers. The combined class & substitution schedules are available as ICS calendar subscriptions. (Each teacher has his / her own ICS calendar URL. Used service: WebUntis) When planning appointments or meetings, it is crucial that class & substitution schedules are taken into account. Without knowing which colleague is teaching when, the great "free/busy" feature is of no use to us - sadly.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want events of subscribed calendars to show up in the free/busy window to be able to consider those when arranging appointments.

Describe alternatives you've considered

As the content of the subscribed calendars can change several times a day and sometimes in very short time intervals, importing the calendars by hand is not a valid option.

Additional context

No response

[tcitworld]

As the content of the subscribed calendars can change several times a day and sometimes in very short time intervals

For reference, the calendars are cached on the server by default for one week, so you need to change this if you need fast refreshment rates, if not already done: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/groupware/calendar.html#refresh-rate

[AxelStieglbauer]

@tcitworld Thank you for this very helpful information!!!

[sr-verde]

Oh, yes. That would be soo wonderful.

[PatrickJosh]

Isn't this already the case? At least I noticed that events from calendars that I have subscribed to are shown in this window as busy times. I actually have the exact opposite problem and would like some of them not to be shown as busy as I only use them to see what kind of events take place.
I suggest that a better solution would be that a user can select which calendars should be taken into account for this feature. This would offer the greatest flexibility, also to change that from time to time, depending on current needs.

[asmecher]

I'm hoping another data point might help sort out the confusion. I'm running Nextcloud Hub 6 (27.1.3); my Nextcloud account subscribes to a Google calendar, and my co-worker's Nextcloud account subscribes to an Outlook calendar.

I seem to be able to see my own busy times from my subscribed (Google) calendar. However, I can't see my co-worker's busy times from his subscribed (Outlook) calendar. He appears to be available to me, even though his Nextcloud calendar shows him events brought in from his Outlook calendar.

I'm hoping it's possible to configure things so that events created on his Outlook calendar, brought via subscription onto his Nextcloud calendar, will appear on his busy times in Nextcloud.