The bot tells a customer when you are free
A calendar reports busy time; the scenario works out the free slots itself and names them by the hour.
What the scenario looks like
«Когда вы свободны»
Календарь
Занятое время▶
Свободные окна▶
Ответ▶
Ответ▶
- Execute + Data
- Data
“When are you free?” is a question a human answers by opening a calendar and doing the arithmetic. A bot can answer instantly, but there is one step between question and answer you would not expect: a calendar can only tell you when you are busy.
What is inside
- “When are you free” — the entry.
- Busy time asks the calendar for its busy intervals for the day.
- Free slots — a code node. It takes the working day, cuts it into hours and drops the ones that overlap anything busy.
- The answer prints what is left.
This is the only example on the page that genuinely needs code, and for that exact reason: interval arithmetic is slower and less reliable from a model, while code gets it right and costs nothing.
What to set up for yourself
- The working day and the step — three constants on the first line of the code: start, end, slot length.
- The calendar address on the busy node.
- Time zones. The code works in UTC, as the calendar returns it. If you show slots to a customer, convert them to their zone or they will arrive three hours early.
- Several calendars. Busy time can be requested across several at once; then free means free in all of them.
What to connect
A calendar over CalDAV. Answering about free slots does not need write access: the scenario only reads.