Entourage 2004 and Links? Weird Behavior

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The Terminator

In Entourage X, when I linked one entry with another, a separate window
would appear, and I would drag the link to the window.

In Entourage 2004, I see they¹ve simplified the process...sort of. When I
try to link a Task to a Calendar Event, I get a list of events, sorted in no
apparent order. And worse, I can¹t change the sort columns, and not even all
of my calendar events appear in this list!

Please tell me if anyone else has seen this??
 
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Paul Berkowitz

In Entourage X, when I linked one entry with another, a separate window would
appear, and I would drag the link to the window.

In Entourage 2004, I see they¹ve simplified the process...sort of. When I try
to link a Task to a Calendar Event, I get a list of events, sorted in no
apparent order. And worse, I can¹t change the sort columns, and not even all
of my calendar events appear in this list!

Please tell me if anyone else has seen this??
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Yes. The inability to sort that list is a disastrous bug. The order is the
order in which you created the events, so if you just made it recently look
near the bottom of the list to find it. It looks to me like a complete list,
and it's so hard to find anything at all - so how have you determined that
there's anything missing? I don't think there is. Don't forget that for
recurring events you will see only the first occurrence listed by date and
have to link to that.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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T

The Terminator

Well, I determined something is missing because it didn¹t show up, even
though it¹s on my calendar.

And while I thought that recurring entries would only show the first one,
that is not the case ­ it is showing all occurrences of certain events, such
as holidays.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Holidays are not recurring events - they are multiple non-recurring events.
That's because so many of them don't fall on the same exact date every year.
When you import holidays form the Holidays feature in File/Import, Entourage
gives you 5 years worth of non-recurring events. (If you're still using the
ones you brought over from Entourage X, maybe originally even form Entourage
2001, you'll have to refresh them soon wit a new import in 2004.)

I've discovered that the the non-sorting bug is only for calendar events.
The little Links window for Tasks does sort, on any column. So the simplest
thing when making a new task might be just to save it without linking, then
go to the All Events calendar custom view or just the calendar, , find the
event you want to link to, open it, then link to the task- which is easy to
find. Certainly do this if wanting to link an existing event to an existing
task.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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From: The Terminator <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:15:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Entourage 2004 and Links? Weird Behavior

Well, I determined something is missing because it didn¹t show up, even
though it¹s on my calendar.

And while I thought that recurring entries would only show the first one,
that is not the case ­ it is showing all occurrences of certain events, such
as holidays.
 
T

The Terminator

I tried that tip. The only issue I have there is that when linking from the
Calendar to Tasks, the windows shows ALL tasks, including completed ones.
So, yes, while I can sort, I have a kind of unwieldy view with hundreds of
complete and incomplete tasks.
 
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rgroup

Paul said:
Yes. The inability to sort that list is a disastrous bug. The order is the
order in which you created the events, so if you just made it recently look
near the bottom of the list to find it.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that tip, Paul.

Disastrous bug, indeed. It wouldn't be so bad if one could link by
dragging and dropping--a surprising omission in an app so mouse-driven
as Entourage. Does anyone know if Microsoft knows or cares about this
bug? I've been using Outlook at work for some years, and I used it at
home until I gave up on Windows and switched to Mac last Fall.
Entourage seems like a weak and poorly designed app by comparison. Sigh.
 
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