Re-export of items imported into Outlook

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Pendlemac - 26 Apr 2007 16:54 GMT

I've been given the job of consolidating various appointment items to create
shareable schedule files for a convention next year. This data will be sent
to me as data file for import into Outlook. I may also add some items by
creating them on my PDA while attending meetings.

My problem is that the current version of Outlook that I have ( 2002 SP3 )
will not export any item not created by itself ( for example any imported
from a file or from my PDA during sync ). The ics file is created but it is
empty and I get an error message.

Can anyone confirm the Outlook 2007 wil export ALL items regardless of their
original source?

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Brian Tillman - 26 Apr 2007 19:52 GMT

> I've been given the job of consolidating various appointment items to
> create shareable schedule files for a convention next year. This data
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> Can anyone confirm the Outlook 2007 wil export ALL items regardless
> of their original source?

What form will these "shareable schedule files" take? What form will the
"sent as data files" data take? If at all possible, you should be avoiding
import/export.

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Pendlemac - 26 Apr 2007 22:18 GMT

> > I've been given the job of consolidating various appointment items to
> > create shareable schedule files for a convention next year. This data
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> "sent as data files" data take? If at all possible, you should be avoiding
> import/export.

Output will be in vCalendar format so that people can import it into their
PIM system for syncing with a PDA. This allows them to plan their attendance
at the various events. ( We'll probably have 5 or 6 venues with events
running in multiples of half hour blocks. )

Not sure what format the input will be in although given it's being shown in
the programme book as a grid I assume it may be a CSV file output from a
spreadsheet.

I'm not bothered about sorting out input / output, I was just curious to see
if the bug in Outlook 2002 had been fixed.

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Brian Tillman - 27 Apr 2007 13:02 GMT

> Output will be in vCalendar format so that people can import it into
> their PIM system for syncing with a PDA. This allows them to plan
> their attendance at the various events. ( We'll probably have 5 or 6
> venues with events running in multiples of half hour blocks. )

You will need a third-party tool for this because Outlook won't export vCal
files and will only save individual events as iCal files.

> Not sure what format the input will be in although given it's being
> shown in the programme book as a grid I assume it may be a CSV file
> output from a spreadsheet.

Outlook should be able to import a CSV with no problem.

> I'm not bothered about sorting out input / output, I was just curious
> to see if the bug in Outlook 2002 had been fixed.

You don't state the error message you're getting and exactly what you're
doing to get it.

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