Skip later occurence in a series

[avatar_58]

Here's the scenario - I book a reoccurring meeting for 9:00 every Wednesday.
This is a temp booking to hold the space for any future meetings (so no one
else books it).

Now I finally get a meeting, so I edit one occurence to say "Board meeting"
right? Invite some people, all is well. Oops, I find out it's not going to
happen Wednesday - I need to reschedule for 3 weeks from now on Thursday.

So I open the meeting (occurence, not series) and change the date. I click
"send update". Now I get a message back saying I cannot move it if it skips
beyond a future occurence of the same series (in other words, every occurence
between now and the new time)

Now forgive me, but just what kind of nonsense is this? Why can't I break
the series and move it to a different day? What difference does it make
whether another occurence or two are in between? As a result people have to
re-create the entire meeting, re-invite the members and send it out again
confusing everyone since they'll get A) The cancellation of the original and
B) The new meeting confirmation with the same exact details.

Surely theres a way around this? Like a way to say "move occurence out of
series" to break free from these restrictions. I mean really - I can delete
one occurence, so why can't I turn it into a single meeting instead of part
of a series?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What happens if you drag the one occurence to the date navigator for the
Thursday day and select to only move that occurence?

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After furious head scratching, avatar_58 asked:

| Here's the scenario - I book a reoccurring meeting for 9:00 every
| Wednesday. This is a temp booking to hold the space for any future
| meetings (so no one else books it).
|
| Now I finally get a meeting, so I edit one occurence to say "Board
| meeting" right? Invite some people, all is well. Oops, I find out
| it's not going to happen Wednesday - I need to reschedule for 3 weeks
| from now on Thursday.
|
| So I open the meeting (occurence, not series) and change the date. I
| click "send update". Now I get a message back saying I cannot move it
| if it skips beyond a future occurence of the same series (in other
| words, every occurence between now and the new time)
|
| Now forgive me, but just what kind of nonsense is this? Why can't I
| break the series and move it to a different day? What difference does
| it make whether another occurence or two are in between? As a result
| people have to re-create the entire meeting, re-invite the members
| and send it out again confusing everyone since they'll get A) The
| cancellation of the original and B) The new meeting confirmation with
| the same exact details.
|
| Surely theres a way around this? Like a way to say "move occurence
| out of series" to break free from these restrictions. I mean really -
| I can delete one occurence, so why can't I turn it into a single
| meeting instead of part of a series?

 

[avatar_58]

Same thing. In fact the only solution I've found is to have te worker delete
the reserved time blocks we've created and make a new appointment that isn't
part of the series. That way they can move it at will. Problem is all of our
settings, location, categories....it's all lost and requires the worker to
remember to re-input all of this (which obviously, they won't)

I'm lost on how we can fix this. Without a way to seperate occurrences from
the series we can't move them backwards or forwards if they skip over other
occurences. This seems like a major problem to me, and I don't understand why
theres no solution. Whats the point in reoccuring appointments if they cannot
be rescheduled without tons of work?