Sorting Items

[KRDitch]

Please allow sorting of calendar items by created/modified times in
Day/Week/Month views. We just converted our management time off calendar to
Outlook this year because there are features that improve our prior process.
During the initial rounds of scheduling, each person posts the days they are
requesting in Seniority Order and we need them to view this way - even for
later, first come first serve entries. If we can maintain that order then
everyone knows where their requests rank as they post them, whenever they
view the calendar, and we know who will not get approved when it is later
determined how many people need to be here on any given day, etc.

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[Brian Tillman]

Please allow sorting of calendar items by created/modified times in
Day/Week/Month views. We just converted our management time off
calendar to Outlook this year because there are features that improve
our prior process. During the initial rounds of scheduling, each
person posts the days they are requesting in Seniority Order and we
need them to view this way - even for later, first come first serve
entries. If we can maintain that order then everyone knows where
their requests rank as they post them, whenever they view the
calendar, and we know who will not get approved when it is later
determined how many people need to be here on any given day, etc.

How can that information possibly be of any value in a day/week/month view?
Those views all involve time lines that correspond to a clock and it makes
no sense to sort by creation date when displaying days, weeks, or months in
a planner format. For example, suppose I make a meeting for 4:00 PM, but I
create it at 7:00 AM. A co-worker creates a meeting for 1:00 PM, but does
so at 10:00 AM. Now, when you display a timeline view like day, week, or
month, which meeting should show first, the one that will occur first, or
the one that was created first? Clearly, the one that will occur first, but
was created second, should display prior to the one that was created first,
but scheduled for later. Anything else serves no purpose *in those views*.
The only thing that MIGHT make sense to order by creation time (or some
criteria other than start time) in a planning view are all-day events. You
sound like you want to treat a day as a resource that only one person at a
time can use.