Easier way to show vacations of only team members and other relevant people in calendar

[jancborchardt]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently in our organization we have a shared vacation calendar. Usually you would keep it not visible because it has a lot of entries at any one time because of the amount of people in the organization.
However this way you might miss important vacations, e.g. of your team colleagues, direct reports and managers.

Describe the solution you'd like
What would be a nicer simpler solution UX-wise is a way to filter an already existing vacation calendar to only show the things relevant to you, namely vacations of your team colleagues, direct reports and managers.
The difficulty of course comes from how to filter it. Probably each calendar event has to have the person who is on vacation as the sole attendee so it can be linked.

@nimishavijay for ideas on how to show this in the interface. @ChristophWurst as brought up, technical feasibility will of course have to be discussed as you said.

Describe alternatives you've considered
There are some workarounds, all of which duplicate what a shared vacation calendar does, be it via creating calendar events only shared with team members or having the vacation info in a shared text file.

It’s also a bit similar to the free/busy view, but in this case the vacations should be permanently shown in the calendar so it’s not again hidden behind a toggle.

[ChristophWurst]

@nimishavijay for ideas on how to show this in the interface. @ChristophWurst as brought up, technical feasibility will of course have to be discussed as you said.

The following aspects are to be considered:

1. An admin needs an interface to define filters for an existing calendars, and define the filtering criteria, including line manager relations
2. Users need a way to toggle between the unfiltered and filtered views of the calendar

Do we want to generalize the filter and whom in the hierarchy you see or would admins or users define that themselves? E.g. do you see your reportees, people on your level, only your next manager in the line of reporting or x/all levels above?