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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Calendaring / November 2005PROBLEM CREATING THE SIMPLEST EVENTS VIEW
I want to view a list of the recurring events (such as birthdays) that I have introduced in my calendar, and have them sorted by "date", chronologically. I would like to have something like: Subject Date ---------------------------------------------------------------- Maria's birthday January 5 John's birthday March 21 Kevin's birthday June 1 Louise's birthday Novemeber 10 This list is very simple, but there is no "Date" field, there is a "start date", but it's showing the begining of the recurrence, which is year 1900, totally useless info for this list. Thanks for your help. Iván Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I want to view a list of the recurring events (such as birthdays) that I have > introduced in my calendar, and have them sorted by "date", chronologically. I [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Ivn So does that mean that I cannot display a list of the events of the whole year sorted chronologically within the year, including those with recurrences? Thx / iván > Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Iván Correct. Outlook cannot display such a list. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > So does that mean that I cannot display a list of the events of the whole > year sorted chronologically within the year, including those with recurrences? [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > >> > Ivn Even further, I shouldn't mind whether Outlook stores the month and the day, or whether it stores the full birth date, nor the way it stores that, I'm a user, shouldn't Outlook do something for me and not the other way around?? Outlook is the best, the biggest, and whatever else you want to add to this list, so I can't be less than surprised and amazed with such an answer, dear Sue. No matter how Outlook stores it, as a user I am not to know how to help Outlook, but the other way around, or that's what I always thought. As an IT professional, if Outlook does not store this information separatedly, for sure it should be possible to display any items in a calendar sorted chronologically within that view. Hence, I cannot believe that Outlook does not allow me to display or print a list with all the recurrent events of the year, sorted chronologically within that year: what's happening month by month, and obviously I want to see what's on the 5th day of a month before than seeing what's on the 9th of the same month, even though the recurrence of the 9th started before than the one on the 5th. Thanks again / iván. > Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Iván Even further, I shouldn't mind whether Outlook stores the month and the day, or whether it stores the full birth date, nor the way it stores that, I'm a user, shouldn't Outlook do something for me and not the other way around?? Outlook is the best, the biggest, and whatever else you want to add to this list, so I can't be less than surprised and amazed with such an answer, dear Sue. No matter how Outlook stores it, as a user I am not to know how to help Outlook, but the other way around, or that's what I always thought. As an IT professional, if Outlook does not store this information separatedly, for sure it should be possible to display any items in a calendar sorted chronologically within that view. Hence, I cannot believe that Outlook does not allow me to display or print a list with all the recurrent events of the year, sorted chronologically within that year: what's happening month by month, and obviously I want to see what's on the 5th day of a month before than seeing what's on the 9th of the same month, even though the recurrence of the 9th started before than the one on the 5th. Thanks again / iván. > Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Iván It's just a workaround, of course, but I created two custom fields for my birthdays, anniversaries and holidays (actually I created the custom fields for the whole Calendar folder and only filled them in for these days). I created a Month field and used the naming convention of "01 - Jan", "02 - Feb", etc. so the months would sort in the proper order. Then the Day field holds the day of the month number. Like I said, maybe Outlook should do this natively, but my workaround works for me for now. SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > Even further, I shouldn't mind whether Outlook stores the month and the day, > or whether it stores the full birth date, nor the way it stores that, I'm a [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > > > > > Iván Thanks for your reply, Jocelyn. The problem is that surely any standard home user will drop Outlook before getting there, and I find it unbelievable than an agenda cannot display a list of items sorted chronologically per ocurrence... it sounds like having a cellphone that cannot call numbers that cointain number "5"... what sense does that have? nothing at all, especially bearing in mind that Outlook is supposed to be the worldwide standard... thx / iván. > It's just a workaround, of course, but I created two custom fields for my > birthdays, anniversaries and holidays (actually I created the custom fields [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > > > > > > > Iván Being that I am mostly a home user of Outlook, I wholeheartedly agree with you :-) SignatureJocelyn Fiorello MVP - Outlook *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. *** > Thanks for your reply, Jocelyn. > [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Iván my apologies for repeating last msg, sorry. thx / iván. > Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Iván |
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