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Keith2468
Outlook 2003: I am suggesting two things:
1. Outlook should let us set and modify Task Start-Date independently of
Task Due-Date.
2. Turn the existing Outlook Task Start-date and Task Due-Date relationship
prohibitions into rules that trigger a pop-up warning.
The current situation is like requiring all groups of letters in a Word
document pass the spell checker and prohibiting saving the document if they
don't -- it is unreasonable and illogical.
In most of the world we are not so perfect, and we need to be able to track
the work of other people who are not so perfect.
In my country (Canada) is not uncommon to start a small task before a due
date has been assigned. If you have started the task, the task has a start
date. But if nobody has determined the task has to be done, or that it has
to be done by a certain date, the task has no due date. You want to know
that the task has no due date, so you do not want to make up a fake one.
Once the task has actually started the Start-Date can't change. But you
can't set a rule that the Start-Date can't change after it has passed,
because the Start-Date in the task may not be correct.
The Due-Date may change many times, before or after the project has started.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for Task Start-Dates and Due-Dates to change
independently. Outlook should allow this.
It is also possible, due to bad planning and poor management, that the
Due-Date may preceed the Start-Date. It is not an ideal occurence, and it
should trigger a pop-up warning. But since the Due-Date can preceed the
Start-Date, Outlook should permit tasks like that.
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1. Outlook should let us set and modify Task Start-Date independently of
Task Due-Date.
2. Turn the existing Outlook Task Start-date and Task Due-Date relationship
prohibitions into rules that trigger a pop-up warning.
The current situation is like requiring all groups of letters in a Word
document pass the spell checker and prohibiting saving the document if they
don't -- it is unreasonable and illogical.
In most of the world we are not so perfect, and we need to be able to track
the work of other people who are not so perfect.
In my country (Canada) is not uncommon to start a small task before a due
date has been assigned. If you have started the task, the task has a start
date. But if nobody has determined the task has to be done, or that it has
to be done by a certain date, the task has no due date. You want to know
that the task has no due date, so you do not want to make up a fake one.
Once the task has actually started the Start-Date can't change. But you
can't set a rule that the Start-Date can't change after it has passed,
because the Start-Date in the task may not be correct.
The Due-Date may change many times, before or after the project has started.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for Task Start-Dates and Due-Dates to change
independently. Outlook should allow this.
It is also possible, due to bad planning and poor management, that the
Due-Date may preceed the Start-Date. It is not an ideal occurence, and it
should trigger a pop-up warning. But since the Due-Date can preceed the
Start-Date, Outlook should permit tasks like that.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...6d79507e6&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general