How to dismiss items before reminder pops up?

[zofficedepot]

OL2007. Maybe it's something that I can do under menu View-Current
View-Day/Week/Month. I can see recurring items that hit later in the
day today, yet some of them I have already done, and these are the
ones I want to "dismiss." I still want these to recur tomorrow; but
rather than have the distraction of seeing them today (or getting a
reminder later today) I'd like to dismiss now (in advance of the event
or reminder), effectively "advancing the recurrence cycle." Right
clicking items (on that view) doesn't seem to have it.

If I could, then when I look at a calendar view I could see what I
REALLY need to do; and besides, the daily recurring things still show
up tomorrow, without making visual noise today.

Can I? VBA is okay if that's the way.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

I think you meant to post this to one of the Outlook groups - this group is
for OneNote.


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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Whoops - my bad. *I* was the one looking at the wrong group. Sorry.


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[Nikki Peterson]

I think that I would use TASKS instead of the calendar for what you
are doing, that way you could just look at your list of tasks and mark
them complete. This would stop the reminder from popping.

The neat thing about tasks is they offer the "Regenerate new task..."
1 day after each task is completed, as long as you set it to Recur
every 1 day. You can even select Every Weekday if necessary.

Does this sound like a possible solution?

Nikki Peterson

 

[Brian Tillman]

OL2007. Maybe it's something that I can do under menu View-Current
View-Day/Week/Month. I can see recurring items that hit later in the
day today, yet some of them I have already done, and these are the
ones I want to "dismiss." I still want these to recur tomorrow; but
rather than have the distraction of seeing them today (or getting a
reminder later today) I'd like to dismiss now (in advance of the event
or reminder), effectively "advancing the recurrence cycle." Right
clicking items (on that view) doesn't seem to have it.

Why not open the recurrence and remove the reminder?

 

[zofficedepot]

Why not open the recurrence and remove the reminder?
Brian - I think you should apply for a job in Redmond. You sound like
a great fit with their level of logic, hard work, commitment to
excellence and (of course) common sense.

Ben - no problem, it happens. Thanks for the courtesy.

Nikki, thank you for an intriguing alternative. I confess that I've
never looked at TASKS. At first blush, it seems that they have all of
the reminder and recurrence features of appointments, only sacrificing
"time of day" and conflict resolution - which I can well live without.
You might have benefited me greatly with this paradigm shift. Thank
you.

I still would like to "twiddle" the "next reminder." Manually
deleting/rebuilding reminders is way too inefficient. There should be
flag(s) or fields signifying dismissal or snoozing; if they're
accessible as VBA objects, I'm interested in hearing about that.
Failing that, perhaps delete/rebuild recurrence via code is an
acceptably automated approach, albeit clumsy.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Brian - I think you should apply for a job in Redmond. You sound like
a great fit with their level of logic, hard work, commitment to
excellence and (of course) common sense.

Doing as I say, while not fitting your preconceived notion of a good
solution, is actually less work than just about anything else and is
certainly more straight-forward.

 

[zofficedepot]

I was sold on using tasks instead of calendar, thanks to your call
attention to them, but they seem to have a devastating flaw. When you
hit Dismiss on the reminder, it retains the recurrence aspect, but the
reminder is turned off (gasp). After dismissing, when you open the
[recurring] task item, Reminder is unchecked!

I get that the idea with tasks is that you work the list, but this is
still wrong. What they effectively show is "a reminder for the first
occurrence of the series." No good. I have a weekly task that I want
to be reminded about each week.

I guess I can just wait; I'm confident they'll fix it in the SR-2 or
SR-3 release for Office 2015.