Task ownership problem

[Steve Thompson]

Whan a user creates a task and assigns it to someone else, the user who
created it is no longer an owner of the task. Even when assigning to multiple
other people, the task creator is not one of the owners after assigning it.
Also, the creator can't include themselves in the users the task is assigned
to.

After trying for a while to fix this problem, it turns out that this is
apparently by design, as described here...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052427151033.aspx?pid=CH063565881033

There may be a good reason for this behavior, but it's creating a really
inconvenient situation. We have users whose job is to coordinate projects for
others. So, they create tasks for other people, sometimes including several
others on one task. Then, when the coordinator needs to change the task (to
change the due date, or add another user), they can't. As far as I can tell,
the only way for the task creator to change the task for all assigned users
is to go into each of their tasks and change it individually. This is not
always a workable solution.

Has anyone else run into this dilemma, and is there any way around it?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Whan a user creates a task and assigns it to someone else, the user who
created it is no longer an owner of the task. Even when assigning to
multiple
other people, the task creator is not one of the owners after assigning it.
Also, the creator can't include themselves in the users the task is assigned
to.

After trying for a while to fix this problem, it turns out that this is
apparently by design, as described here...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052427151033.aspx?pid=CH063565881033

Outlook's tasks provide only rudimentary project management fuinctions. Why
not use a real project management application?