Random Recurring Appntments

[SJMP]

Is there any trick to setting up a recurring appointment, whose schedule is
more random than weekly or mothnly. If I have a meeting that is going to be
on Nov 12,20,24. Which would be a Wed, Thurs, and Mon. How could I set up the
recurring appointment for something like this?

Thanks,

 

[Mike Shen]

Dear Customer,

Thank you for posting.

From your post, I understand you would like to create a recurrence meeting
with more random days. If I'm off base, please feel free to let me know.

Base on the research, we are not able to create a recurrence meeting with
random days.

Nevertheless, you are able to create a recurrence meeting every Monday.
Then, update some occurrences of the recurrence meeting to another day.

You can update separate occurrence of recurrence meeting by using following
method:

1. Open Calendar Folder
2. Double click an occurrence of the recurrence meeting which you would
like to update
3. Select "Open this occurrence"
4. Change time/location according to your requirement and send the update

Sincerely,
Mike Shen
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Pippercat]

I'm new to Outlook (used Lotus Notes before and am using Outlook 2007 now)
and was VERY disappointed to learn that I could not schedule recurring
meetings on specific or customizable dates. Surely SJMP and I are not the
only two people in the world to expect such a feature from Outlook???

I have tried to create recurring meetings and had EVERY meeting within the
meeting request DECLINED because the particular Room I was reserving was
already booked on one (or maybe several) date(s) several weeks/months in the
future. It is very annoying having to either remove the unavailable days and
make a separate meeting just for them, or open each one individually and edit
it. This solution just seems to mess up my calendar all around - especially
if someone wants to be added to the recurring meeting later on, or the
meeting gets cancelled altogether - then I need to find every occurence of it
and change or delete it. Any easy solutions to this?

I think Microsoft could have designed this part a little better... :-(

 

[Stacy]

I totally agree with Pippercat. Our Department switched from GroupWise to
Outlook and we were told that Outlook is sooooo much better. Well in
GroupWise, I could click on a calendar and set up appointments on random
days. Outlook does not have that capability. Maybe Outlook should review
GroupWise calendaring to see how it is done.