forward appointment--but why??!?

[Dick Watson]

I frequently make an appointment while at work (OL2K vs. Exchange server) or
home (OL03 against POP3 on both laptop and desktop). I want my other Outlook
clients to know about that appointment. It's not a meeting request. I don't
care if the machine that creates the appointment knows about the others so
updates can propagate. I just want to get the same appointment in all three
Outlook calendars.

So I forward the calendar appointment item to my home or work email. Seems
obvious, right? That's why the Forward choice exists for an appointment,
right?

But when I try to drag the forwarded file to the calendar on my OL03 on my
desktop machine or laptop, OL refuses to put it in there and tells me I have
to have the sender send a meeting request. It's NOT a MEETING and I don't
need no st***ing meeting request. I just want an appointment in the calendar
without having to retype the data from the Calendar item attachment I can
readily open and read.

Why is this so hard? What am I missing? Does nobody else try to do this? Is
this not a common requirement in common environments???? Surely there must
be some way to do this--what is it?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try opening the forwarded item and then choosing Save and Close.

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[Dick Watson]

There is no save and close choice. Save saves it right back as an attachment
in the email that forwarded it. Dragging the attachment straight to the
calendar gets the message about not being able to create a meeting from an
attachment. Arrggh.

Try opening the forwarded item and then choosing Save and Close.

 

[Dick Watson]

Curiously, when I forward as Ical or just forward from OL03 back to OL03,
this works exactly as I would expect. I'll check tomorrow about what happens
in OL2K with the same items sent OL03->OL2K. The immediate problem is
OL2K->OL03. That doesn't seem to work--and is my more frequent direction for
moving this stuff.

Try opening the forwarded item and then choosing Save and Close.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

is the attachment a calendar form? if you create a new message and use
Insert item or drop the appointment on it, does it work?

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

do you have a reminder set? try it without the reminder.

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[Dick Watson]

Properties on the attachment suggest it's a meeting request form. It looks
kinda like a meeting request form but has accept/decline etc. disabled. But
I just want an appointment...

I'm not clear on whether your second question is referring to a different
way of sending it (Besides Actions|Forward) or what to do with the ones I've
already got in my home inboxes. I can test the former tomorrow. As to the
latter, nothing seems to work. Dropping it on a new calendar item just adds
an embedded item in a blank appointment.

 

[Dick Watson]

Yes. I will try forwarding them without the reminder set. The problem with
that, obviously, is that I really do want the reminder set and this just
makes it more likely that one side or the other will end up with it in the
calendar without the reminder set.

 

[Dick Watson]

You question may be obliquely referring to
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823199.

I'll look into it for the OL03->OL2K direction. My more common requirement
and problem at the moment is OL2K Actions|Forward to an OL03/POP3 client.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

if it works with the reminder off, make sure you have all of the most recent
updates for each version of outlook and try using reminders again.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I'd try using Forward as iCal in either direction, but as noted, with the reminder turned off. Is Exchange involved? What version?

Without iCal, you must make sure that the recipient address is marked for rich-text format mail.

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Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Dick Watson]

The work side is Exchange. I don't know which version. Knowing our approach
to IT, it surely is not a recent one. We'll be using the currently recent
versions several new versions from now.

I'd try using Forward as iCal in either direction, but as noted, with the
reminder turned off. Is Exchange involved? What version?

Without iCal, you must make sure that the recipient address is marked for
rich-text format mail.

 

[Dick Watson]

icals sent from OL03 to OL2k seem to ignore the RTF preference and get sent
as HTML. When received in the OL2k SP3 client, they are more or less
unusable as appointments regardless of whether they had a reminder set or
not. (I am trying to get the latest OL2k hotfix--there are many of them--to
see if this matters.)

An appointment sent Actions|Forward from the same OL03 to the same OL2k
through the same Exchange server arrives RTF and opens like an appointment
with Save and Close available.

I'd try using Forward as iCal in either direction, but as noted, with the
reminder turned off. Is Exchange involved? What version?

Without iCal, you must make sure that the recipient address is marked for
rich-text format mail.

 

[Andrea]

I have the same problem, and I can't figure out how to fix it. My office is