Officient automation

Request time off in Officient from chat

You know you want the second week of November off, but booking it means opening the Self Service, checking the budget, scanning colleagues' calendars and sending the request.

Cotlet does it in your own Officient account with get_calendar_budget, list_colleague_absences, request_absence and get_calendar, called by your AI agent, an n8n workflow or a script.

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Can Officient do this on its own?

Officient names a calendar:write scope for apps (checked 22 Oct 2026), but the public reference lists no endpoint to request an absence, and an admin has to create the app first. The documented route is the Self Service calendar.

How you do it in Officient today

  1. In the Self Service Calendar, the employee clicks the day or days to book and selects Add 1 day.
  2. They choose the type of absence, then a full day, a half day or specific hours.
  3. To see what is left, they click My calendar budget at the top of the Calendar.
  4. To check for clashes, they open Show colleagues (the gear at the top right on desktop) and read each colleague's calendar.
  5. Send request delivers the request to the manager or HR, and the whole routine repeats for every trip.

How to request time off in Officient from chat

Prompt

Book 9 to 13 November as holiday. Check my holiday budget first and tell me who else on my team is out that week.
  1. 01

    Check the budget first

    get_calendar_budget returns what is left per absence type, the same figures as My calendar budget. If the dates you gave need more than the type has left, the agent stops and tells you before anything is sent.

  2. 02

    Look for clashes

    list_colleague_absences reads the colleagues' calendars for the same dates. The agent reports who is out and leaves the decision to you, because a clash is not a rule in Officient.

  3. 03

    Send the request

    request_absence sends one request with the type, the dates and a full day, half day or hours. It reaches your manager or HR, so it waits for your OK until you switch confirmation off for this tool.

  4. 04

    Read the calendar back

    get_calendar reads the same dates again and the agent reports what the calendar now shows, so you see the request landed on the right days.

What you get back

Example data

Holiday budget before: 14.5
Request sent: Holiday, 9 to 13 Nov 2026, full days (5)
Budget after approval: 9.5
Also out that week: Lena Maes (9 to 13 Nov), Tom De Smet (11 Nov, half day)

Other ways to ask

  • Book Friday afternoon as a half day of holiday and tell me my budget afterwards.
  • Put home office in my calendar every Wednesday of December.
  • Check if 23 to 31 December clashes with anyone on my team, but send nothing.

What Officient allows, and what to know first

  • Officient lets an absence cover a full day, a half day or specific hours, so one request can be less than a day.
  • Officient sends the request to the manager or to HR, whichever the employee picks with Send request.
  • Officient shows the remaining budget under My calendar budget at the top of the Calendar.
  • Officient has a home office entry, so colleagues can see who works remotely.

request_absence asks for your OK by default. To run it on a schedule without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Officient Help: Self Service calendar · Officient Help: Apply for leave of absence in the Self Service · Officient API: Permission scopes

Call request_absence from a script

curl

curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/officient/absence/request \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"Holiday","from_date":"2026-11-09","to_date":"2026-11-13","day_part":"full_day"}'

Example response

{
  "request_id": "req_2210",
  "status": "sent",
  "type": "Holiday",
  "from_date": "2026-11-09",
  "to_date": "2026-11-13",
  "day_part": "full_day"
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the call is officient_write → request_absence. Example data.

Schedule it in n8n, Make, Zapier or cron

Officient tools this automation uses

Cotlet Officient tools used to request time off in Officient from chat
Tool Parameters
get_calendar_budget none
list_colleague_absences from_date, to_date, team
request_absence type, from_date, to_date, day_part, from_time, until_time
get_calendar from_date, to_date
All 12 Officient tools with descriptions

Frequently asked questions

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