On 6/10/02 5:37 AM, "George Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Been checking out the Calendar Views in Entourage X (w/ SR1 applied, of
> course), and the one for 'Next 7 Days' seems to have a problem with a couple
> of my events.
>
> Both of my kids' birthdays are in January, yet they show up in this custom
> view. I thought that perhaps because they'd been entered a while ago as
> annually recurring events, that might have some impact. So I changed them so
> they now start next year. That got rid of one of them, but the second one
> still shows up.
>
> Other things I've tried using the 'date is' parameter for seem to work, so
> maybe it's just something odd with those two events. (Well, my kids are both
> pretty special :-)
>
No. You've run into the stupidest thing in all of Entourage.
Recurring events are individual objects with multiple instances. As far as
custom views are concerned, a single recurring event simultaneously has the
date properties of all its instances. Birthdays are recurring events with no
end date. so they go infinitely into the future. Their start date is is the
of birth, in the past. So far, so good.
The criteria for "next 7 days" are
Date is less than 7 (or 8?) days from now
Date is greater than 0 days from now
Well - every single recurring event that started in the past and has not had
its final date yet or by the end of the week fits both those criteria! There
is at least one (usually several) instance that was in the past (date is
less than days from now) and several (infinite number) still to come in the
future (greater then 0 days from now)! The event has both qualifying
properties. So ALL recurring events not yet finished appear in every such
view.
This logic is utterly stupid. It makes custom views based on date
completely useless for recurring events. This has been known since before
the release of Entourage 2001, and still was not fixed for Entourage X. If
you take a look at MS Outlook, you'll see that most of the event/task stuff
in Entourage was "borrowed" from Outlook. But Outlook gets this sort of View
right, I think, so they didn't borrow very well. A real, bad, gaffe.
I add a third criterion to my "next 7 days" custom view:
Recurrence is None
So of course I never find out about upcoming birthdays. But you don't the
other way either.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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