1. Implementing Absence Management
  2. Stop Sending ICS Calendar Invite Files in Absence Notifications

Stop Sending ICS Calendar Invite Files in Absence Notifications

Here’s how you can turn off the delivery of .ics file in the absence notification:

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, click Search on the Tasks panel tab, search for and open the Manage Common Lookups task.
  2. On the Manage Common Lookupspage, search for and open the ANC_PROC_CONFIGS lookup.
  3. Add and enable a new lookup code, ANC_NO_ICS.
  4. Click Save and Close.

What to do next

If you had previously configured AbsencesApprovalTask task in BPM Worklist to disable all absence attachments in e-mail notification, you can now revert that change. To do so you need to first create the ANC_NO_ICS lookup code as described above, and then follow these steps:
  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, click Search on the Tasks panel tab.
  2. Search for and open the Define Approval Management for Human Capital Management task list.
  3. Select the Manage Task Configurations for Human Capital Management from the task list.
  4. Select AbsencesApprovalsTask, and click Edit task in the BPM Worklist page.
  5. Click Notifications.
  6. Select the Send task attachments with email notifications check box.
  7. Click Save.

After you do this, approvers will start receiving attachments in their email for absence approvals without the calendar invite (.ics) file.