Officient automation · runs weekly

See who is out next week in Officient

Planning next week starts with knowing who is away, and in Officient that answer sits in the calendar of each colleague.

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

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Can Officient do this on its own?

Officient has a calendar:read scope for apps (checked 22 Oct 2026), but the public reference lists no calendar endpoint. Its Teams link posts a daily list of who is absent, with no weekly view and no per-day count.

How you do it in Officient today

  1. On desktop, the employee opens Calendar, clicks the gear at the top right and selects Show colleagues.
  2. Colleagues at the bottom of the calendar gives an overview per colleague. On mobile, the same is Show colleagues at the bottom of the screen.
  3. Clicking your own name in Show colleagues opens your yearly calendar.
  4. For a daily feed, an admin can link Teams under Settings > Integrations > Teams integration, which posts who is absent into a channel.
  5. Neither view counts people per day, so a team lead adds the numbers up by eye.

How to see who is out next week in Officient

Prompt

Every Friday, list who on my team is out next week, day by day, and flag days when more than two people are away.
  1. 01

    Find your team

    list_colleagues with your team name returns the people on it, so the report covers the right group and ignores the rest of the company.

  2. 02

    Read next week

    list_colleague_absences reads the colleagues' calendars for Monday to Friday of next week and returns each absence with the person, type and day part.

  3. 03

    Count per day

    The agent counts people out per day, treats a half day as half a person and flags any day above the limit in your prompt.

  4. 04

    Report

    You get one line per day with names. Days above your limit come first, so the cover decision is the first thing you read.

What you get back

Example data

Next week, Design team (6 people)
Mon 9 Nov: Lena Maes
Tue 10 Nov: Lena Maes
Wed 11 Nov: Lena Maes, Tom De Smet (half day), Aya Claes (home office)
Flagged: Wed 11 Nov, more than two entries

Other ways to ask

  • Tell me who is out on Monday morning before 9:00 every week.
  • Show absences for the whole company in December and group them by team.
  • List only half-day and hour-based absences for this week.

What Officient allows, and what to know first

  • Officient shows colleagues' calendars through Show colleagues, and each colleague appears in the overview.
  • Officient has a home office entry, so remote days are visible next to absences.
  • Officient's Teams link posts daily who is absent, who has a birthday and who starts that day.
  • Officient lets you link its calendar to your own calendar application.

Every tool here only reads, so it can run weekly from n8n, Make, Zapier or cron without waiting for your OK.

Sources: Officient Help: Self Service calendar · Officient Help: Connect Officient to Teams · Officient Help: Link your Officient calendar to your own calendar application

Call list_colleague_absences from a script

curl

curl "https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/officient/colleague-absences?from_date=2026-11-09&to_date=2026-11-13" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "absences": [
    {
      "person": "Lena Maes",
      "type": "Holiday",
      "from_date": "2026-11-09",
      "to_date": "2026-11-13",
      "day_part": "full_day"
    },
    {
      "person": "Tom De Smet",
      "type": "Holiday",
      "from_date": "2026-11-11",
      "to_date": "2026-11-11",
      "day_part": "half_day"
    },
    {
      "person": "Aya Claes",
      "type": "Home office",
      "from_date": "2026-11-11",
      "to_date": "2026-11-11",
      "day_part": "full_day"
    }
  ],
  "total": 3
}

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

Schedule it in n8n, Make, Zapier or cron

Officient tools this automation uses

Cotlet Officient tools used to see who is out next week in Officient
Tool Parameters
list_colleagues query, team
list_colleague_absences from_date, to_date, team
All 12 Officient tools with descriptions

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