BETA Outlook 2007 - Can't drag-n-drop appointments in 'day' view

[Noel Hastings]

I am not sure if this is a bug, but 2003 never behaved like this. In calendar
view, when you are viewing "day" or multiple days, you can view each
appointment as a colored block of time on the schedule. You used to be able
to click and drag it to a new time if the appointment changed. Now when I do
this, the appointment "jumps" back to the original time immediately when I
release the left mouse button. The only way to change the time or date is to
open it and physically type in a new time, or delete it and make a new appt
at the new time. I have Beta-2 and all releveant updates, clean XP system
with all updates. The entire laptop was redone this weekend and updated. Can
you no longer drag and drop appointments?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Noel,

This works here without a problem. Try deleting all custom views by
starting Outlook with the /cleanviews command line parameter. Let me
know if that solves the problem.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Mike]

I'm able to do this okay, but I seem to recall the other day that if I let
go of the button at the wrong moment it would not move. If this isn't the
problem, I'm not sure what other setting might cause this. I know in Excel
there's an option to turn off drag & drop cell editing, but I don't think
there's a similiar option in Outlook.

Mike

 

[Noel Hastings]

I tried your suggestion, no change. I still cannot drag-n-drop any
appointments in Outlook. -Noel

 

[Patrick Schmid]

You can try running Office Diagnostics (Start, All Programs, Microsoft
Office, Microsoft Office Tools), but I doubt it will do anything. You
could also try uninstalling and reinstalling.
Other than that, I don't know what is wrong and suspect that you have
hit a bug. Can you give us more generic information about your setup? Do
you use Exchange, a PST, etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid

 

[Noel Hastings]

I have reinstalled. I installed 2007 over 2003 originally, then in a fit of
OCD, I decided to clean up my whole system. I have JUST started from scratch,
new XP and all updates, then 2007 with One Note from clean slate. I cannot
remember if I had this bug before the new install or not. Currently,
everything is working fine except for this and a server certificate issue I
posted on just now. I also had an issue a few times where Outlook would not
start, it would frezze after accepting the server certificate, then after a
few freezes and kills via task manager, it asked if I wanted to try safe
mode. I did, it froze, finally it asked if I wanted to "detect and repair".
This cycle occured 3 times and seems to have stopped now, but I am left with
the drag and drop bug. I may have had this bug before that cycle of stuff,
but not sure.

As far as specifics, no Exchange server, just a basic IMAP server here at
the University of Washington that requires SSL for both send and receive.
(are you in Redmond or around Seattle?) -Noel

 

[Patrick Schmid]

As far as specifics, no Exchange server, just a basic IMAP server here
at

the University of Washington that requires SSL for both send and receive.
(are you in Redmond or around Seattle?) -Noel

Pennsylvania...

I've replied to the SSL issue.
The issue with the drag & drop of appts sounds like a bug. I'll submit
it as such.

Patrick Schmid

 

[crystalsinger]

Hi Noel,

Can you no longer drag and drop appointments?

This appears to be a known-issue with the beta - see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/known_issues.htm


Cheers,

Jessica