Why does the Category disappear when I assign a task?

R

Renee

I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get the
Category back?
 
D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


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T

TheSeer

I have the same problem. Everyone on my team has exactly the same Master
Cateogory list. When I assign them a task with a category selected, it
disapears when they accept the task. Then, they update the task with the
appropriate category. But it does not update my task list. I can manually
assign the category to their task in my task list, but then when they update
the task on their side - due date, notes, etc. and save, then my category
gets wiped out again. We did this side by side to confirm we were indeed
using the same categories.

I think something is broken somewhere.

Diane Poremsky said:
When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Renee said:
I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get
the
Category back?
 
R

rwd

I'm having the exact same problem. Something is broken here. For us it popped
up after we migrated to Exchange 2007 on the server side. The versions of
outlook 20093 are _EXACTLY_ the same.

Anyone else have some ideas?

ryan


TheSeer said:
I have the same problem. Everyone on my team has exactly the same Master
Cateogory list. When I assign them a task with a category selected, it
disapears when they accept the task. Then, they update the task with the
appropriate category. But it does not update my task list. I can manually
assign the category to their task in my task list, but then when they update
the task on their side - due date, notes, etc. and save, then my category
gets wiped out again. We did this side by side to confirm we were indeed
using the same categories.

I think something is broken somewhere.

Diane Poremsky said:
When they accept, you are no longer the owner and the recipient needs to set
their own category.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Renee said:
I am using the Tasks function in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. When I
assign a task to someone else and keep a copy of it in my Tasks list, the
Category that I assigned that task disappears. Why? and how can I get
the
Category back?
 
B

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

I'm having the exact same problem. Something is broken here. For us it
popped
up after we migrated to Exchange 2007 on the server side. The versions of
outlook 20093 are _EXACTLY_ the same.

Perhaps you have a rule stripping the Category. Outlook 2007 has one.
 
P

pwncpa

We have had the same problem pop up after migrating to Exchange 2007 as well.
Used it without problem for years with OL 2003 on Exchange 2003.
 

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