Karl said:I am trying to create a critical dates calendar and have many
recurring events. If I try to create a reminder, it doesn't work. If I
remove the recurrence, then the reminder works. Is this just a
function of Outlook or is there a fix for this?
F.H. Muffman said:Out of curiousity, is the reminder that you set up one that would have
happened in the past? In other words, is this, say, a weekly event that
has happens in less than 3 days and you're putting a 4 day reminder on it?
There is a bug (or, at least, a reproducible problem) where what you're
pointing at happens.
Karl said:I'm not sure I follow. They were existing events that we just
noticed were not showing reminders. We tried to recreate the event
with a new reminder. As an example, if annual reporting is due on
4/15/07 and every year recurring and we set a 6 week reminder, it
didn't pop up originally and when recreated today with a 6 week
reminder, it does not show up then either. Non recurring events work
fine. So, we are creating a future event with a reminder that would
occur in the past (due to it not working originally).
So, you are saying, if we were to create the event with a reminder
that does not occur before today, we are fine (and can modify it
later for future dates)?
F.H. Muffman said:Yes.
The bug that came up in a different thread was, in essence, this:
1) Set up an appointment for 5 days from now.
2) Set the reminder for 7 days before the event.
3) Get the reminder
4) Set up a *recurring* appointment for 5 days from now, repeating, say,
monthly.
5) Set the reminder for 7 days before the event.
6) *Don't* get the first reminder. You will get the reminder in the
future.
If you had existing events that you *weren't* getting reminders for,
starting outlook with a /cleanreminders switch likely would have fixed it.