How not to dismiss future recurrence

[KG]

In MS Outlook 2003 calendar I create appointment with recurrence and put
reminder on that. When it pops up I naturally hit the "dismiss" button hoping
to close on this particular prompt but it clear all the series...

I can't find anything else in the reminders window except "dismiss". How do
you guys deal with that? Please, help me, the newcomer to the calendaring

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

In MS Outlook 2003 calendar I create appointment with recurrence and put
reminder on that. When it pops up I naturally hit the "dismiss" button
hoping
to close on this particular prompt but it clear all the series...

Dismissing the reminder on one occurrence shouldn't dismiss the reminders on
future occurrences. Open the item and examine the reminder check box. Is
it still checked afyter dismissing the reminder?

 

[David McCoy]

My problem is even worse -- I can't even get reminders to work at all with
recurring events.

If I set a reminder on a non-recurring appointment, everything works as
expected, but if I then add recurrence to that appointment, save and close
it, then re-open it, the reminder box is un-checked (and, of course, no
reminder ever appears). If I remove recurrence on that appointment, the
reminder starts working again. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

My problem is even worse -- I can't even get reminders to work at all with
recurring events.

If I set a reminder on a non-recurring appointment, everything works as
expected, but if I then add recurrence to that appointment, save and close
it, then re-open it, the reminder box is un-checked (and, of course, no
reminder ever appears).

What happens if you recheck the reminder box and save?

 

[David McCoy]

I apologize -- I wrote my original post too late at night and did not state
it correctly. It should have said:

1. I set a reminder on a non-recurring appointment and save and close it,
and a reminder immediately pops up. So far, so good -- that is what I think
it should do.

2. I re-open the appointment, add recurrence, confirm that the Reminder box
remains checked, save and close it, and the reminder for that event
immediately DISAPPEARS from the Reminders window (which I left open).

3. I re-open it (the series, not the occurence), the reminder box is STILL
CHECKED, I remove recurrence, confirm that the Reminder box remains checked,
save and close it, and, the reminder still does not work.

4. I re-open it, the reminder box is STILL CHECKED, so why didn't the
reminder pop up? To jostle it, I increase the reminder period, confirm that
the Reminder box remains checked, save and close it, and, the reminder starts
working again -- the event is re-added to the still-open Reminders window.

This little exercise just illustrates the problem. In fact, I have many
repeating events with reminders set and none of them ever pop up. I also
have non-repeating events with reminders and their reminders all do pop up
when they should.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

1. I set a reminder on a non-recurring appointment and save and close it,
and a reminder immediately pops up. So far, so good -- that is what I
think
it should do.

2. I re-open the appointment, add recurrence, confirm that the Reminder
box
remains checked, save and close it, and the reminder for that event
immediately DISAPPEARS from the Reminders window (which I left open).

3. I re-open it (the series, not the occurence), the reminder box is STILL
CHECKED, I remove recurrence, confirm that the Reminder box remains
checked,
save and close it, and, the reminder still does not work.

4. I re-open it, the reminder box is STILL CHECKED, so why didn't the
reminder pop up? To jostle it, I increase the reminder period, confirm
that
the Reminder box remains checked, save and close it, and, the reminder
starts
working again -- the event is re-added to the still-open Reminders window.

This little exercise just illustrates the problem. In fact, I have many
repeating events with reminders set and none of them ever pop up. I also
have non-repeating events with reminders and their reminders all do pop up
when they should.

I can't reproduce this. Perhaps someone else will join the conversation.

 

[David McCoy]

Thanks to Brian and anyone else who might look at this.

I figured out the answer:

If you create a non-recurring event with a reminder that should have already
occurred, you will get the reminder even though that reminder is overdue, so
I assumed that would be true for recurring events as well, but it is not. If
you create a recurring event, with any reminders that should have already
occurred, none of those can be made to appear -- just the ones that are not
yet due.

Thanks again!