Calendar Views - why are some categories ignored

[Guest]

I have a diary with both personal and work items in it, every item has a one
of about 20 categories assigned to it.

I want to create a view which will only show work items in it. There is a
mechanism to create user defined views and filter it based on categories
which should do the trick. The relevant work categories are selected but
when using this view some of items are being missed out in spite of having
been selected in on the filter - for example on category of appointment is
travel, but no travel items are showing which is somewhat frustrating!

The view is applied to all calendar folders with a Day/Week/Month view.

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook]

It should work so let's see if you've done something that would affect it-

Have you made your Categories or Calendar items on multiple devices (eg 2
PCs or a PDA and the PC)?

Are the Categories EXACTLY the same on the various devices??


Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your thoughts. There is only one calendar which is the one on my
laptop. In there I have both personal and business items. I want to create
a view which shows only my business items.

I have therefore created a view called work. This filters based on
categories - about 12 of which are work related and therefore selected in the
more choices category selection.

However, when I activate the view I have created only some of the work items
are showing - specifically one of them Travel which happens to be at the
bottom of the list is not being picked up in this view.

I am wondering if there is a limit to the number of categories that can be
selected in a defined view?

It should work so let's see if you've done something that would affect it-

Have you made your Categories or Calendar items on multiple devices (eg 2
PCs or a PDA and the PC)?

Are the Categories EXACTLY the same on the various devices??


Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

I have a diary with both personal and work items in it, every item has a one
of about 20 categories assigned to it.

I want to create a view which will only show work items in it. There is a
mechanism to create user defined views and filter it based on categories
which should do the trick. The relevant work categories are selected but
when using this view some of items are being missed out in spite of having
been selected in on the filter - for example on category of appointment is
travel, but no travel items are showing which is somewhat frustrating!

The view is applied to all calendar folders with a Day/Week/Month view.

 

[Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook]

Maybe there is - I don't know. You could post that question and see if
others know.

Alternatively, why don't you make a view that filters out all Private
meetings and use the mark private function? Saves having to use 12
Categories to get the same data showing.

To make a whole bunch of items Private in one fell swoop, view the
Calendar in By Category View, add the Private column (using the Field
Chooser), group by Private (put that field in the Group By Box), then drag
items for the non-private group to the Private one.


Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

Thanks for your thoughts. There is only one calendar which is the one on my
laptop. In there I have both personal and business items. I want to create
a view which shows only my business items.

I have therefore created a view called work. This filters based on
categories - about 12 of which are work related and therefore selected in the
more choices category selection.

However, when I activate the view I have created only some of the work items
are showing - specifically one of them Travel which happens to be at the
bottom of the list is not being picked up in this view.

I am wondering if there is a limit to the number of categories that can be
selected in a defined view?

It should work so let's see if you've done something that would affect it-

Have you made your Categories or Calendar items on multiple devices (eg 2
PCs or a PDA and the PC)?

Are the Categories EXACTLY the same on the various devices??


Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!

I have a diary with both personal and work items in it, every item

has a
one

of about 20 categories assigned to it.

I want to create a view which will only show work items in it.

There is
a

mechanism to create user defined views and filter it based on categories
which should do the trick. The relevant work categories are

selected
but

when using this view some of items are being missed out in spite of having
been selected in on the filter - for example on category of

appointment
is

travel, but no travel items are showing which is somewhat frustrating!

The view is applied to all calendar folders with a Day/Week/Month

view.