Why does the Category disappear when I assign a task?

[Renee]

I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get the
Category back?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


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[TheSeer]

I have the same problem. Everyone on my team has exactly the same Master
Cateogory list. When I assign them a task with a category selected, it
disapears when they accept the task. Then, they update the task with the
appropriate category. But it does not update my task list. I can manually
assign the category to their task in my task list, but then when they update
the task on their side - due date, notes, etc. and save, then my category
gets wiped out again. We did this side by side to confirm we were indeed
using the same categories.

I think something is broken somewhere.

When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

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I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get
the
Category back?

 

[rwd]

I'm having the exact same problem. Something is broken here. For us it popped
up after we migrated to Exchange 2007 on the server side. The versions of
outlook 20093 are _EXACTLY_ the same.

Anyone else have some ideas?

ryan

I have the same problem. Everyone on my team has exactly the same Master
Cateogory list. When I assign them a task with a category selected, it
disapears when they accept the task. Then, they update the task with the
appropriate category. But it does not update my task list. I can manually
assign the category to their task in my task list, but then when they update
the task on their side - due date, notes, etc. and save, then my category
gets wiped out again. We did this side by side to confirm we were indeed
using the same categories.

I think something is broken somewhere.

When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get
the
Category back?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm having the exact same problem. Something is broken here. For us it
popped
up after we migrated to Exchange 2007 on the server side. The versions of
outlook 20093 are _EXACTLY_ the same.

Perhaps you have a rule stripping the Category. Outlook 2007 has one.

 

[pwncpa]

We have had the same problem pop up after migrating to Exchange 2007 as well.
Used it without problem for years with OL 2003 on Exchange 2003.