[Outlook] shared calendars & reminders

[Joon Radley]

Hi Albrecht,

Just send a mail to support at toltec.co.za. We have a utility that can set the
reminder flag on folders.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
Cell: +27 (0)83 368 8557
Fax: +27 (0)12 998 4346
E-mail: joon at radleys.co.za
Web: www.toltec.co.za

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-users-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-users-
> bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Albrecht Dreß
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:28 PM
> To: Kolab Users List
> Subject: [Outlook] shared calendars & reminders
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an installation in which most users use Outlook w/ Toltec.  We
> have several shared read-only calendar folders, which people simply
> "invite" as to publish appointments as information.
> 
> I noticed that if the appointment contains a reminder setting, users
> running Outlook 2007 seem to get reminders from appointments in the
> shared folders even if they are not participants.  If they try to
> cancel the reminder, Outlook/Toltec apparently tries to modify the
> appointment, which fails as the calendar is read-only, resulting in
> more nagging about messages which cannot be stored in the IMAP folder.
> Older Outlook versions apparently do not show this strange "reminder".
> 
> Is this a known issue/feature?  As the reminders/errors are annoying,
> it would be nice to have a workaround.  Do you know if (and how?)
> Outlook 2007 can be instructed /not/ to display reminders from certain
> calendars?
> 
> An other option (involving some hacking) might be to have an option
> which makes calendars "silent", and to instruct the Kolab filter script
> to remove the reminder function (this is the <alarm> XML tag, right?)
> from calendar objects before they get inserted into the respective
> folders.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks, Albrecht.
> 
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