Outlook Reminders

[Dheeraj Malik]

Hi All,

I have Outlook 2003 on my XP Pro machine. I have a
question about setting Reminders as a Search Folder.

So the question, is there a way for me to create a search
criteria(using Advanced tab/fields) to formulate a search
that would work the same way as reminders do. Note, the
reminder window has multiple type of items emails,
appointments, tasks ... and I would like to keep it that
way in my Search Folder so that I can go to this
customized folder and view everything together and
whenever I want.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Dheeraj

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The only way you can create a search folder in Outlook 2003 that holds
multiple types of items is to do it in code. You won't get reminders fired
but you can view the items that way in the search folder.

Since the ReminderSet property for items that support reminders is only
present when a reminder has been set at least once, you also have to include
in your search criteria a test for the properties existence using
NOT(<property> IS NULL).

Another tip is that for multiple folders you will want to bracket each
folder name with single quotes and separate folders with commas in the Scope
argument of the Search object. So you don't want to have multiple folders
with the same name.

See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817890&Product=out2003
for an example of creating a search folder using code.

Remember also that a search folder can only work for one InfoStore, so one
you create could work in one PST file but it wouldn't work in any others
(same goes for Exchange mailboxes or mixed setups) and no search folders at
all for Exchange public folders.