birthdays are not showing up as events

[Meg]

i have birthdays in the details section of my outlook contacts, yet they are
no longer showing up as events in the calendar.

any suggestions

windows xp
outlook 2003

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Did it work at one time? Also, how did the contacts get into the Contacts
folder?

 

[Meg]

it did work at one time.
I have added the contacts manually, some of them have been imported from a
backup. Some are synced from a palm pilot hotsync (mostly not) and some
have been synced using share-o



--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


Did it work at one time? Also, how did the contacts get into the Contacts
folder?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

If you manually modify something in the items where the birthday isn't on
the calendar, does it fix it?

 

[Meg]

don't know what that means, exactly.

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Open the item, change something, save the contact

 

[Meg]

in the contact?

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes

 

[Meg]

i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email address)
and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary listing.

 

[Meg]

any other suggestions out there?

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Are you using the default contacts folder and the default calendar to view
the birthdays?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Meg asked:

| any other suggestions out there?
|
|
| || i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email
|| address) and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary
|| listing.
||
|| ||| Yes
|||
||| |||| in the contact?

 

[Meg]

well, I use the default calendar, but I have many contact folders.


--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Only birthdays from contacts in the default folder display in the calendar.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Meg asked:

| well, I use the default calendar, but I have many contact folders.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Are you using the default contacts folder and the default calendar
|| to view the birthdays?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Meg asked:
||
||| any other suggestions out there?
|||
|||
||| |||| i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email
|||| address) and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary
|||| listing.
||||
|||| message ||||| Yes
|||||
||||| |||||| in the contact?

 

[Meg]

but the other contacts are subfolders of the main contact folder.


--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Brian Tillman]

but the other contacts are subfolders of the main contact folder.

Subfolders have no more special standing that folders elsewhere in the
hierarchy. You could have calendars X, Y, and Z as subflders of the main
calendar or as top-level folders along side of the main calendar and it
wouldn't make any difference. Making a subfolder of a main folder does not
impart any special handling for that folder.

 

[Meg]

so this means, that however the main contact folder is the only contact
folder that will generate birthdays and anniversaries?

 

[Brian Tillman]

so this means, that however the main contact folder is the only
contact folder that will generate birthdays and anniversaries?

Yes. Only the main folder.