create a search folder for calendar invitations

[Richard T]

Hi all,

I tried searching for an answer to my question, but I did not find anything
that helped. I regularly have 150-200 emails in my inbox, and 20% of those
are calendar invitations to meetings. I wanted to create a search folder
that I could pin to the Favorite Folders section of my display, but I can't
seem to get the search folder to work correctly. I am in an exchange
environment, by the way, and using Outlook 2003

· display the folder list
· left-click Search Folders
· click New Search Folder
· select Create a Custom Search Folder
· click the Choose button and name the new folder
· click the Criteria button
· Go to the Advanced tab
· Under 'define more criteria' choose the Field drop-down
· navigate to All Apointment Fields and click on 'Organizer'
· change the Criteria condition to "is not empty"
· click Add to List
· click OK to close all the open dialogue boxes

The search folder now appears in the folder list, and I can right-click it
and choose "Add to Favorite Folders". The problem is that the mails
displayed by this Search Folder are not just calendar invitations. All of
the items in my exchange mailbox are being shown (deleted, inbox, sent,
drafts, junk email, etc).

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to create a search folder
to view calendar items? I do not want to create a client-side rule to do
this, because I won't be able to access that rule when I'm at home using OWA.
I can access my search folders from within OWA.

Many thanks in advance for the help.
-- Richard

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try using the Message Class property. Add it to a table view so you can see the value to use.