Views - excluding categories in custom views

[OutlookUser]

I have created a custom view that filters and groups on specific task
categories (for example, filter & group for custom categories of phone,
write, read).

The problem is that the view shows tasks organized into groups of phone,
write and read; AND creates an additional groups in the view when a task was
categorized in multiple categories (eg. such as phone and personal, now I get
a group for personal even though it was not included in my filter criteria).

How can I exclude any group that does not match my filter (eg. phone, write,
read) from the view?

I don't understand why outlook is creating additional groupings for my view
when I've already set a filter for specific categories?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

If a task item has the two categories "phone; christmas", and if you filter
for items of the category "phone", this task item will be shown as it
matches the filter criteria.

If you now group by categories, Outlook has to show one group for every
category assigned to the task item, that is one for "phone", and one for
"christmas". Hiding "christmas" would mean hiding all the item.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
: VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
: <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>


Am Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:01 -0800 schrieb OutlookUser:

 

[OutlookUser]

This is exactly what is happening...both categories, 'phone, christmas' are
showing up in the view.

Its too bad there is not an option to hide categories that are not included
in the filter.

I'm assumming it would be possible to program (in C#) a view that would only
show categories that were included in the filters?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

That's possible, yes. The views in VBOffice Reporter work that way, for a
download see the link in my signature.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

: Outlook Categories? Category Manager Is Your Tool
: VBOffice Reporter for Data Analysis & Reporting
: <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?pub=6&lang=en>


Am Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:24:02 -0800 schrieb OutlookUser: