Changing single occurrences of recurring events

[craig]

I recently switched from the palm to a windows smartphone. I read one
of your posts about recurring events in outlook, and that scared me to
no end, because my schedule/task management system is based around
changing recurring events to single daily instances.(for example,
every day I have a no time event to check warehouse receivables.
Every day, when I have done it I change from a no time to the specific
time, thus creating a new single event and deleting it from the
series.) are you saying that outlook cannot do that task for me?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I recently switched from the palm to a windows smartphone. I read one
of your posts about recurring events in outlook, and that scared me to
no end, because my schedule/task management system is based around
changing recurring events to single daily instances.(for example,
every day I have a no time event to check warehouse receivables.
Every day, when I have done it I change from a no time to the specific
time, thus creating a new single event and deleting it from the
series.) are you saying that outlook cannot do that task for me?

Outlook can certainly do what you want, but not if you're simply modifying
single occurrences of a recurring event. If you are truly creating daily
occurrences with fixed times based on the instances of the recurring event,
then I think what you're doing should work. The only thing about which
you'll need to be wary is any operation that regenerates the recurring
event, because that will wipe out all exceptions, erasing all the changes
you made to the individual occurrences. If you're actuallty modifying the
individual occurrences, however, I don't think what you're trying will work
well because of the fact that the a recurring event is ony one item in the
calendar no matter how many times you see it appear on the day/week/month
view. Changing an occurrence adds an exception to the list of
automatically-generated appearances of the event. Those exceptions are
easily erased.