Regarding sort/group by user-defined fields

[Guest]

G'day all

I am just wondering why outlook 2002 is not letting me to sort/group by a userdefined field
Basically I thought if I have a field that has only date (no time), then I could group all my mai
on per day basis and there is a very very least chance of missing even a mail

Hence I created a user-defined date type with only date (I'd use day(received) function), and
but when I tried to group it via this fields, I did not get this field in the dropdown box.

I believe this should be possible, can anyone please guide me to do this

Thanks in advanc
Rammy

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Outlook does not allow sorting or grouping by formula fields. This is a
known limitation.

FWIW, Outlook's date/time field always holds both date and time data,
regardless of what the display might look like.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Thanks for you reply..
Is there any other means of doing this..

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Doing what? Please take the time to quote the original message so that
people reading your current response can understand what you're talking
about. Otherwise, you may not receive the answer you're looking for.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

I meant the following..

Outlook does not allow sorting or grouping by formula fields. This is a
known limitation.

FWIW, Outlook's date/time field always holds both date and time data,
regardless of what the display might look like.

Basically I need to group all mails that was send on per day basis.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The only way to do this would be to use VBA code to put the date, without
the time element, into a custom field as each item arrives. You can use the
MAPIFolder.ItemAdd event for this.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers