How do I create an Out of office type Calendar Event via the REST API?

Question

Google Calendar has a new event type called "Out of office" that automatically will decline any events it is placed over and others that come in during the scheduled time of the event.

I inspected one of these event objects via the API and briefly checked the Google Calendar API documentation to see if there was a way to create these programmatically. I work on a system that schedules events on people's calendars when they are going to be out of the office as all day events to provide visibility to the rest of the staff. I would like to change these to be true Out of office event types if its possible via the API.

Answer 1

The short answer: It does not work currently (as of 05/2021)

The Google Calendar API currently exposes the eventType property as read-only. It will be discarded when sent in an insert payload.

eventType [string]: Specific type of the event. Read-only.

Possible values are:

• "default" - A regular event or not further specified.
• "outOfOffice" - An out-of-office event.

As mentioned by @ercliou in the comments, the ticket can be tracked here: issuetracker.google.com/issues/112063903