Group Calendar - out of office only

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Is it possible to set up a group calendar requesting only Out-of-Office
meetings for all to appear in the group calendar?
Thanks.
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Maybe, depending on what you mean by "a group calendar requesting only out-of-office meetings."

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue,

When you set up a meeting, Outlook allows for showing the meeting time as
either:
- free (no colour)
- tentative (diagonal blue line)
- busy (solid blue)
- out-of-office (burgundy)
- or at least those are the colours in our system!!

We would like to use outlook (if possible) as an In/Out Calendar for our
department. I tried the group function and found that it simply amalgamated
all calendars/all appointments, but I only want to import those appointments
that take people out of the office (the burgundy ones) as we want a central
tracking of Ins/Outs.

Does that clarify my question? Also, we are using Outlook 2003. And if
this is not possible in Outlook, are there any other MS apps that might
accomodate this?Thanks again.
Rita
 
It clarifies your intent, but not necessarily your question. The group schedule feature performs no importing and has no ability to filter appointments based on any criteria, including free/busy state. You might need to use one of the tools listed at http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/scheduleall.htm

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue,
Thanks for that link - I'll look into it.

Do you know if Outlook 2007 has/will have any of these filtering capabilities?
Thanks.
Rita
 
It will not.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
One last time, thanks for your help.

We may resort to the old fashioned pen and ink!!
;-)
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