How to consolidate reminders and make tasks and calendars active?

[Dmitry Bond]

Hi.

Outlook 2003 (no plans to move to 2007 as I donot like office 2007 interface).

I got a question - how to consolidate reminders and make tasks and calendars
active?

I expain situiation - I have 1 ms exchange mail account + 4 pop3 mail
accounts.
Exchange account stored online + also I have 2 local PST files - one for
business related mail and second for private mail.
I have own versions of calendars + tasks in each PST + calendar and tasks in
exchange account.
Unfortunately, only 1 calendar and 1 tasks folder (in exchange account) is
active. Everything added into the calendars and tasks in PST files simply
does not work - no reminders popups.

Also problem - I need to have some hierarchical structure of Tasks folders
in exchange account, like this - Tasks -> {completed; PIPELINE -> current; to
think; hotline issues; etc.}.
Unfortunately only 1 top level Tasks folder works - display reminder popups,
rest of tasks folders do not display reminder popups (as for me it means - do
not work)... :-\

Question is - how to make more then 1 calendar and more than 1 tasks folder
active?

I hope such cool and compex application as Outlook 2003 able to do that?...

Regards,
Dmitry.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

1. You need to use a utility - see http://www.slovaktech.com for reminder
manager. Or use categories to separate items and keep them all in one
folder.
2. Tasks don't have hierarchy.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[Dmitry Bond]

1) hm... +30$ to price of Outlook. bad... :-\

2) Tasks has hierarchy - you can create task folders as childs for other
task folder.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

2) Tasks has hierarchy - you can create task folders as childs for other
task folder.

Reminders fire only from the default Tasks folder. The subfolders would
still need the Reminder Manager program.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

1. if you need multiple folders, then you need reminder manager. reminders
only fire from the default folder.
2. You asked about task hierarchy (a lot of people want task hierarchy).
But even so, reminders only fire from the default folder, not from
subfolders.

Better is to use 1 folder and custom views to show or hide the tasks - you
save $30 and get reminders. If you must have subfolders, then you'll find
the $30 is money well spent.

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1) hm... +30$ to price of Outlook. bad... :-\

2) Tasks has hierarchy - you can create task folders as childs for other
task folder.