Creating a "tickler file" with Outlook

[John McGovern]

I am attempring to create a task management system to be administered by one
person and used by 10 people.

As an overview, our organization wants to make sure managers are not missing
financial filing deadlines. We hope to set up the filing dates, notify
managers via email as these dates approach, and have the managers email back
notification that the task has been completed. I will administer the system
and I will need some kind of reporting showing what tasks are complete and
which are overdue.

I have several ways I can go on this (plus others I have not considered) and
I am hoping to find the best solution...something that makes the most sense.

I believe this is a common application that should have a simple, basic
solution. Yet I can only devise what I feel is a solution that is too
complicated.

Any ideas?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You didn't say what version of Outlook you're using or whether Exchange is
your mail server. In any case, Outlook can't do all this out of the box, but
it is functionality that can be programmed.