Outlook Tasks displayed in Calender

[Brian Tillman]

I am surprised that you do not understand the requirement here,
especially since at least one of Outlook's principle rivals, Lotus
Notes, provides exactly this functionality, which was used at my
previous firm.

One must be familiar with a product to be able to compare it. I've never
seen Lotus Notes and while I may know a good bit about how Outlook works, I
have no knowledge of Notes, so how could that have possibly helped me
understand the requirement?

 

[Guest]

It's sad that I had to spend $50 for Taskline's software but it gets the job
done. This is simple Microsoft... when you have a calendar, you place items
on a calendar for a reason. Whether they are appointments or tasks a user
should have the option to display either or, or both on the calendar. I
understand I can see the tasks at the bottom in a weekly calendar in outlook
2007, but here I am mainly talking about viewing a full month. Anyhow,
Taskline's software does the job where Microsoft failed to do a simple task...

I did not say they were all in one item, I said that Outlook 2007 offers a
unified "Display" of these items so you do not need to keep switching
between folder views. THere is nothing on the horizon to integrate Tasks
and calendar since they are different types of Outlook items. If this is
important to you, you may want to check out Taskline which offers
integration with the calendar. http://www.taskline.info

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mark asked:

| Milly, Hello I saw this post a few weeks ago however now I am
| curious, I test drove the Outlook 2007 a few minutes ago trying to
| add several tasks. It showed my tasks however they were not
| integrated into the calender as stated in the post. I went to Tasks
| and they were there however listed nowhere else. All test drives
| additions I made showed and stuck throughout the test drive except
| the Tasks being Associated within the Calender. Thanks
|
|| Outlook 2007 will have a unified display showing your calendar,
|| today's appointments, and tasks. Very cool.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Robert asked:
||
||| Brian -
||| I have the same question and I fully understood what Mark was asking
||| in his original query.
|||
||| Outlook should be able to display Tasks within the calendar. I
||| personally have searched every control and option to do that but
||| have never found a way to get tasks to appear in their specific day
||| on the calendar view. It would be a REQUIRED option feature so you
||| could print a complete calendar for daily use when away from the
||| office.
|||
||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Bill, Thank you for the response. Actually I have tried that
||||| option, where it shows the actual task pad. However, I want the
||||| option to view my task items within the same scheme as the
||||| calender. When I view the calender by the whole month, I would
||||| like to see all the scheduled holidays and stuff, along with
||||| notated task items.
||||
|||| Who's Bill?
||||
|||| You've added requirements that were not in your original
|||| suggestion. It's difficult for anyone to suggest a solution when
|||| the requirements keep changing. Also, expect SPAM and viruses now
|||| that you publiced your email address in a public forum.
|||| --
|||| Brian Tillman

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

As stated before, task items and appointment items are completely different types of Outlook forms. They belong in their own folder type. You can drag a task to the calendar, or drag an appointment item to the tasks folder.

What Mr. Sinclair offers with Taskline is a third very useful option. Microsoft cannot do everything and leaves some items for third party developers, for which the 3rd party developers, and their families, are very grateful.

Besides , how much anti-trust trouble do you expect Microsoft to court?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Delerius asked:

| It's sad that I had to spend $50 for Taskline's software but it gets
| the job done. This is simple Microsoft... when you have a calendar,
| you place items on a calendar for a reason. Whether they are
| appointments or tasks a user should have the option to display either
| or, or both on the calendar. I understand I can see the tasks at the
| bottom in a weekly calendar in outlook 2007, but here I am mainly
| talking about viewing a full month. Anyhow, Taskline's software does
| the job where Microsoft failed to do a simple task...
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I did not say they were all in one item, I said that Outlook 2007
|| offers a unified "Display" of these items so you do not need to keep
|| switching between folder views. THere is nothing on the horizon to
|| integrate Tasks and calendar since they are different types of
|| Outlook items. If this is important to you, you may want to check
|| out Taskline which offers integration with the calendar.
|| http://www.taskline.info
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Mark asked:
||
||| Milly, Hello I saw this post a few weeks ago however now I am
||| curious, I test drove the Outlook 2007 a few minutes ago trying to
||| add several tasks. It showed my tasks however they were not
||| integrated into the calender as stated in the post. I went to Tasks
||| and they were there however listed nowhere else. All test drives
||| additions I made showed and stuck throughout the test drive except
||| the Tasks being Associated within the Calender. Thanks
|||
|||| Outlook 2007 will have a unified display showing your calendar,
|||| today's appointments, and tasks. Very cool.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Robert asked:
||||
||||| Brian -
||||| I have the same question and I fully understood what Mark was
||||| asking in his original query.
|||||
||||| Outlook should be able to display Tasks within the calendar. I
||||| personally have searched every control and option to do that but
||||| have never found a way to get tasks to appear in their specific
||||| day on the calendar view. It would be a REQUIRED option feature
||||| so you could print a complete calendar for daily use when away
||||| from the office.
|||||
||||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|||||
||||||
||||||| Bill, Thank you for the response. Actually I have tried that
||||||| option, where it shows the actual task pad. However, I want the
||||||| option to view my task items within the same scheme as the
||||||| calender. When I view the calender by the whole month, I would
||||||| like to see all the scheduled holidays and stuff, along with
||||||| notated task items.
||||||
|||||| Who's Bill?
||||||
|||||| You've added requirements that were not in your original
|||||| suggestion. It's difficult for anyone to suggest a solution when
|||||| the requirements keep changing. Also, expect SPAM and viruses
|||||| now that you publiced your email address in a public forum.
|||||| --
|||||| Brian Tillman

 

[Guest]

Yes they are different but it would be nice to simply select what you would
like on the calendar instead of dragging everything. I mainly use the tasks
to let me know when bills are due. I place all the bills in the tasks and
have it setup to do a re-incurring cycle. When I pay the bill, I mark the
task complete and move on. So as you can see, it is important to me to see a
complete month at a time with all the tasks. Maybe you can tell me, does
Microsoft's money integrate with outlook and its calendar function? I can
understand Microsoft not wanting to step on toes but I am trying to simplify
what I do on the computer. I dislike having to open three programs to
accomplish one task such as paying bills. Why three programs? I use Quicken
to keep track of financial records, an excel spreadsheet to keep track of
utilization on credit cards and outlook for when bills are due. With Quicken
I can keep track of the bills due on their month view calendar but since I
use outlook for everything else, it’s just nice to have one program open to
view what I need to view for the day.
I apologize for yesterday's post and the tone of it. It's just frustrating
the amount of time a person can waste in wanting to achieve something. I hope
in the future the abilities of being able to link data from one program to
another becomes easier. Now if I can only get my spreadsheet into outlook…
lol…

As stated before, task items and appointment items are completely different types of Outlook forms. They belong in their own folder type. You can drag a task to the calendar, or drag an appointment item to the tasks folder.

What Mr. Sinclair offers with Taskline is a third very useful option. Microsoft cannot do everything and leaves some items for third party developers, for which the 3rd party developers, and their families, are very grateful.

Besides , how much anti-trust trouble do you expect Microsoft to court?

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Delerius asked:

| It's sad that I had to spend $50 for Taskline's software but it gets
| the job done. This is simple Microsoft... when you have a calendar,
| you place items on a calendar for a reason. Whether they are
| appointments or tasks a user should have the option to display either
| or, or both on the calendar. I understand I can see the tasks at the
| bottom in a weekly calendar in outlook 2007, but here I am mainly
| talking about viewing a full month. Anyhow, Taskline's software does
| the job where Microsoft failed to do a simple task...
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I did not say they were all in one item, I said that Outlook 2007
|| offers a unified "Display" of these items so you do not need to keep
|| switching between folder views. THere is nothing on the horizon to
|| integrate Tasks and calendar since they are different types of
|| Outlook items. If this is important to you, you may want to check
|| out Taskline which offers integration with the calendar.
|| http://www.taskline.info
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Mark asked:
||
||| Milly, Hello I saw this post a few weeks ago however now I am
||| curious, I test drove the Outlook 2007 a few minutes ago trying to
||| add several tasks. It showed my tasks however they were not
||| integrated into the calender as stated in the post. I went to Tasks
||| and they were there however listed nowhere else. All test drives
||| additions I made showed and stuck throughout the test drive except
||| the Tasks being Associated within the Calender. Thanks
|||
|||| Outlook 2007 will have a unified display showing your calendar,
|||| today's appointments, and tasks. Very cool.
||||
|||| --ÂÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Robert asked:
||||
||||| Brian -
||||| I have the same question and I fully understood what Mark was
||||| asking in his original query.
|||||
||||| Outlook should be able to display Tasks within the calendar. I
||||| personally have searched every control and option to do that but
||||| have never found a way to get tasks to appear in their specific
||||| day on the calendar view. It would be a REQUIRED option feature
||||| so you could print a complete calendar for daily use when away
||||| from the office.
|||||
||||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|||||
||||||
||||||| Bill, Thank you for the response. Actually I have tried that
||||||| option, where it shows the actual task pad. However, I want the
||||||| option to view my task items within the same scheme as the
||||||| calender. When I view the calender by the whole month, I would
||||||| like to see all the scheduled holidays and stuff, along with
||||||| notated task items.
||||||
|||||| Who's Bill?
||||||
|||||| You've added requirements that were not in your original
|||||| suggestion. It's difficult for anyone to suggest a solution when
|||||| the requirements keep changing. Also, expect SPAM and viruses
|||||| now that you publiced your email address in a public forum.
|||||| --
|||||| Brian Tillman

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I tend to use Quicken for my financials (they have a great calendar for scheduling payments, etc.) and not Money but I don't believe Money will integrate with Outlook. I am not aware of any financial package that does but your favorite search engine would probably be the best place to start looking for such a program.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Delerius asked:

| Yes they are different but it would be nice to simply select what you
| would like on the calendar instead of dragging everything. I mainly
| use the tasks to let me know when bills are due. I place all the
| bills in the tasks and have it setup to do a re-incurring cycle. When
| I pay the bill, I mark the task complete and move on. So as you can
| see, it is important to me to see a complete month at a time with all
| the tasks. Maybe you can tell me, does Microsoft's money integrate
| with outlook and its calendar function? I can understand Microsoft
| not wanting to step on toes but I am trying to simplify what I do on
| the computer. I dislike having to open three programs to accomplish
| one task such as paying bills. Why three programs? I use Quicken to
| keep track of financial records, an excel spreadsheet to keep track
| of utilization on credit cards and outlook for when bills are due.
| With Quicken I can keep track of the bills due on their month view
| calendar but since I use outlook for everything else, it’s just
| nice to have one program open to view what I need to view for the
| day.
| I apologize for yesterday's post and the tone of it. It's just
| frustrating the amount of time a person can waste in wanting to
| achieve something. I hope in the future the abilities of being able
| to link data from one program to another becomes easier. Now if I
| can only get my spreadsheet into outlook… lol…
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| As stated before, task items and appointment items are completely
|| different types of Outlook forms. They belong in their own folder
|| type. You can drag a task to the calendar, or drag an appointment
|| item to the tasks folder.
||
|| What Mr. Sinclair offers with Taskline is a third very useful
|| option. Microsoft cannot do everything and leaves some items for
|| third party developers, for which the 3rd party developers, and
|| their families, are very grateful.
||
|| Besides , how much anti-trust trouble do you expect Microsoft to
|| court?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Delerius asked:
||
||| It's sad that I had to spend $50 for Taskline's software but it gets
||| the job done. This is simple Microsoft... when you have a calendar,
||| you place items on a calendar for a reason. Whether they are
||| appointments or tasks a user should have the option to display
||| either or, or both on the calendar. I understand I can see the
||| tasks at the bottom in a weekly calendar in outlook 2007, but here
||| I am mainly talking about viewing a full month. Anyhow, Taskline's
||| software does the job where Microsoft failed to do a simple task...
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| I did not say they were all in one item, I said that Outlook 2007
|||| offers a unified "Display" of these items so you do not need to
|||| keep switching between folder views. THere is nothing on the
|||| horizon to integrate Tasks and calendar since they are different
|||| types of Outlook items. If this is important to you, you may want
|||| to check out Taskline which offers integration with the calendar.
|||| http://www.taskline.info
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Mark asked:
||||
||||| Milly, Hello I saw this post a few weeks ago however now I am
||||| curious, I test drove the Outlook 2007 a few minutes ago trying to
||||| add several tasks. It showed my tasks however they were not
||||| integrated into the calender as stated in the post. I went to
||||| Tasks and they were there however listed nowhere else. All test
||||| drives additions I made showed and stuck throughout the test
||||| drive except the Tasks being Associated within the Calender.
||||| Thanks
|||||
|||||| Outlook 2007 will have a unified display showing your calendar,
|||||| today's appointments, and tasks. Very cool.
||||||
|||||| --ÂÂÂ
|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||
|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||||| without reading.
||||||
|||||| After furious head scratching, Robert asked:
||||||
||||||| Brian -
||||||| I have the same question and I fully understood what Mark was
||||||| asking in his original query.
|||||||
||||||| Outlook should be able to display Tasks within the calendar. I
||||||| personally have searched every control and option to do that but
||||||| have never found a way to get tasks to appear in their specific
||||||| day on the calendar view. It would be a REQUIRED option feature
||||||| so you could print a complete calendar for daily use when away
||||||| from the office.
|||||||
||||||| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|||||||
||||||||
||||||||| Bill, Thank you for the response. Actually I have tried that
||||||||| option, where it shows the actual task pad. However, I want
||||||||| the option to view my task items within the same scheme as the
||||||||| calender. When I view the calender by the whole month, I would
||||||||| like to see all the scheduled holidays and stuff, along with
||||||||| notated task items.
||||||||
|||||||| Who's Bill?
||||||||
|||||||| You've added requirements that were not in your original
|||||||| suggestion. It's difficult for anyone to suggest a solution
|||||||| when the requirements keep changing. Also, expect SPAM and
|||||||| viruses now that you publiced your email address in a public
|||||||| forum. --
|||||||| Brian Tillman

 

[DebbieG]

I have a question. We've recently gone from Groupwise to Outlook. In
Groupwise we were able to print the tasks in their entirety along with
appointments on the calendar. I have permission right to my boss' calendar,
but when I enter tasks it puts them on his calendar, but the view I see when
I print does not show the tasks. Our tech people say it's because they are
his tasks. If I sign on using his password (which is a no-no), I can see the
tasks. Is there some way around this. Our office uses task to track all our
office projects/cases. This is crippling us.

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

Get permission to his Tasks folder, then you can print it in its entirety.


Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

www.judygleeson.com
www.deskdoctors.com

Are you sick of bad email practice? Get a copy of my paper "Implementing
Email Policy" from the Desk Doctors website.

 

[Vanda]

I have permission to both the tasks and calendar for my boss and when I go to
print out his daily calendar it does not show his tasks (none of them) as it
did when I printed them when we were on Outlook 2003. Please tell me how to
fix this problem.

Thanks,
Vanda

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

I think you cannot print his Calendar and Tasks together. You can print his
Tasks from his Tasks folder.

--

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

www.judygleeson.com
www.deskdoctors.com

Are you sick of bad email practice? Get a copy of my paper "Implementing
Email Policy" from the Desk Doctors website.

 

[Tim Green]

One must be familiar with a product to be able to compare it. I've never
seen Lotus Notes and while I may know a good bit about how Outlook works, I
have no knowledge of Notes, so how could that have possibly helped me
understand the requirement?

Brian,

I know this is over a year old, but I am so utterly staggered by this reply
that I simply must comment!

Microsoft have a functionality here for users to suggest features that they
would find useful. It is not unreasonable for these suggestions to come in
part from functionality provided by other products. It also seems unlikely
that Microsoft themselves (the people who are interested in these
suggestions) are completely unaware of rival products. You yourself say "One
must be familiar with a product to be able to compare it." If you personally
are unaware of a product mentioned by a contributor, the only rational course
is not to comment! Your petty and childish replies have done nothing whatever
to advance the discussion of the topic at hand.

In any case, I was merely pointing out that the requirement, which you (and
others) appear to consider as both unreasonable and technically impossible,
is in fact neither, as it has already been implemented in other software.

You have acquired MVP status, so your regular posts must be civil, even
friendly. Might I suggest that you extend the same courtesy to those making
suggestions to Microsoft, and not consider each suggestion as a personal
affront, nor your own failure to understand a requirement as evidence of the
capriciousness and stupidity of your correspondent?

Tim

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

You yourself say "One
must be familiar with a product to be able to compare it." If you personally
are unaware of a product mentioned by a contributor, the only rational
course
is not to comment!

You were the one surprised I didn't understand something Lotus Notes provides
and I was merely explaining why and wondering why you believed mentioning a
product unrelated to Outlook would help anyone in an Outlook newsgroup
understand a particular functionality.

No where was I uncivil. State your evidence that I was. I didn't call you
names, and I'm fairly sure I didn't say whatever idea you were presenting was
hare-brained or anything to that effect. How is expressing my opinion (since
I have no knowledge of Outlook internals) as to why a particular feature may
not be available a crime?