Task Pad View 2003

[Mary Ann]

The task pad view for Today's Tasks does not in fact just
show today's tasks. Is this a known bug or have I missed
something? I presume it can be amended by applying a
filter to the view. If I want today's tasks and tasks
with no due date and overdue tasks, what should the
filter be?

Any comments / help appreciated

Mary Ann

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Mine is set to "Active Tasks for Selected Days", and "Include Tasks with No
Due Date" is selected also. Note that printing a calendar in Outlook 2003
will always print all tasks in the TaskPad view, even if you don't show all
tasks in the onscreen view -- hopefully this will be corrected.

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[Guest]

I've tried all the settings in the Menu and the only one
that works is Overdue tasks. The Tasks Completed On
Selected Days shows me all tasks completed by the
selected day.
All the other settings show me all active tasks from
those with no due date, through overdue tasks on to one
in 2005!
Any further insight you might have about what might be
going on and how I can correct it would be appreciated.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

If you switch to Active Tasks for Selected Days and try the TaskPad again,
does it show all of that even if you only have one day selected and even if
you skip around to different days to see if anything changes?

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[Mary Ann]

With Active Tasks for Selected Days, I see now that if I
Have selected a day in the future I get tasks which have
No Due Date or a Due Date in the future - that makes
sense. If I pick today, I get Overdue tasks as well.

With Tasks for the Next Seven Days, irrespective of
whether I select today or a day in the future, I get
tasks with No Due Date, Overdue Tasks and tasks with a
Due Date in the future.

I think I've cracked it though - the controlling date
seems to be the Start Date. I don't use this field so
it's set at None for all my tasks. I have experimented
with changing the Start Date of one of my 2005 tasks to a
date in 2005 and sure enough it doesn't appear in either
the Active Tasks for Selected Days or the Next Seven Days
View.

Similarly it seems that Today's Tasks are controlled by
the Start Date and not by the Due Date.

So.....if I want to show tasks which are due today or
which are overdue, I shall need to create my own filter
it seems.

Wow... got there in the end I think.

Thank you for your promptings.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Glad you got it sorted

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[Judy Gleeson]

Use Start date - it's very much the key date for helping you know what to do
and when. Due date is about crisis management and knowing when you're
running behind!

The start date combined with Active Tasks for Selected Dates is a great way
to set and forget things you need to do in the future.

You can set the Due date from the Start date field - drag your mouse on the
drop down calendar and the dates will grey!!