Multiple-All Day Event Only Shows On Begining Of Week ??

[sos1043]

Hi,

Outlook 2007 on WinXP SP2.

I thought this was another oddity of the To-Do Bar. Guess I can't
place blame on that goofy thing this time (yes it's very functional,
but way to limited/locked down in comparison to OL2000).

Anyway Here's this problem:

I have an All-Day event created for multiple days, Friday thru
Monday. I can see it at the begining of the week, but I cannot see
the event if I look at Friday in day-view, unless I create another All-
Day event -then it shows up in day view along with the event I just
created. What's up?!? I've deleted & recreated the multi-day event,
just in case it's something I did during the event creation.
Restarted OL several times. Still I'm stumped.

I'm able to recreate this scenario, so it's not my install/workstation
or views. Is this something that has some kinda of *special* learning
curve like the To-Do bar? I thought an event or appointment is just
that. What the heck would it matter what view I use, or what day
starts the week or if I view a work week....


Any Help is desperately needed.......
thx

 

[sos1043]

Outlook 2007 on WinXP SP2.

I thought this was another oddity of the To-Do Bar. Guess I can't
place blame on that goofy thing this time (yes it's very functional,
but way to limited/locked down in comparison to OL2000).

Anyway Here's this problem:

I have an All-Day event created for multiple days, Friday thru
Monday. I can see it at the begining of the week, but I cannot see
the event if I look at Friday in day-view, unless I create another All-
Day event -then it shows up in day view along with the event I just
created. What's up?!? I've deleted & recreated the multi-day event,
just in case it's something I did during the event creation.
Restarted OL several times. Still I'm stumped.

I'm able to recreate this scenario, so it's not my install/workstation
or views. Is this something that has some kinda of *special* learning
curve like the To-Do bar? I thought an event or appointment is just
that. What the heck would it matter what view I use, or what day
starts the week or if I view a work week....

Any Help is desperately needed.......
thx

okay so I got messin around as I couldn't see how this is possible.
I found out some behaviors:
If Outlook is maximized, there's no appearant event viewing problem
as described above.
BUT - if the window is resized, the problem will show up if the
current view is >Day/Week/Month view w/Auto Preview.

So does this mean Outlook has to be full screen other inherent
behaviors?

?????? Any input appreciated........

 

[Diane Poremsky]

FWIW, there is some buggyness with the all day events and outlook 2007,
although this is a new one to me.

You mention that you can see it if you maximize the screen - what size
window do you normally work with in Outlook? Do you see the scroll bar on
the right side? In my repro, there is a small triangle when the all day
event isn't showing but it doesn't show the event.

 

[sos1043]

Diane,
I suppose there would be. Nothing's perfect.
Normally work w/ a 40~60% window. Even w/ a virtual desktop mgr I
continue to pack several apps in each. Only a terminal session gets
my full atten w/ a max window. The scroll bar is visible, but this
owuld only be for appts, not an all-day event (right?).
The problem shows up if I dont' have a maximized window & have the
current view set to >Day/Week/Month view w/Auto Preview.
I have found a work-around for this (in my last post): If I don't run
a max window (which is 99% of the time) & set the current view to >Day/
Week/Month w/o the AutoPreview, the problem is *resolved*.

Thanks for your reply, jeff

....now for the very-few concrete settings in the ToDo Bar...........
8)

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I repro'd a view problem and reported it - I used the default view - not
the one with autopreview though (I can't repo it using the autopreivew
view).

A video of it is at
http://www.slipstick.com/_bugs/disappearingevents/disappearingevents.html -
if it looks to be the same problem I won't add to the report.

 

[sos1043]

Diane,

I watched your vid & are now horrified. I thought I was loosing my
mind with missing events. The problem I described is similarly based
on the specific size of the window. Depending on the size (but not
position) I can bias the results by using the view as described
earlier. I'd venture to say these problems are related.

This is very bad, but until a patch, I will relay, 'maximize the
window' to colleagues.
BTW -Yes to the inverted small triangle. I get the same.
Thx, jeff