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Outlook Tasks in Microsoft To-Do
Thanks Sergei.
This morning the notifications appeared on my iPhone.
Unfortunately, though, Microsoft To-Do TOTALLY screwed my Outlook Tasks, changing all the start dates of the recurring tasks (and also of some other non-recurring tasks): really a mess!
Luckily, before activating To-Do (being it a preview...), I made a backup of all my Outlook Tasks (that in my case are about 200) and therefore I have been able to restore them without further problems.
Well, I think To-Do has still a long journey to-do (pun intended) before being ready with Outlook Tasks integration, so I give up for the moment.
We will see...
cc Candy Ho
Hi Salvatore,
Two hundred active tasks - that's impressive!
I played few minutes with with tasks - created one task each on To-Do Desktop, mobile, OL2016 and in cloud. Set reminders on couple of minutes ahead.
All reminders appears in time. Tasks were created in both To-Do:s everywhere are shown correctly - time of creation, due time.
Tasks created in Office (both OL and cloud) are shown with Due Yesterday. Moreover, reminder in OL interface shows strange time under the task, perhaps that's end of my business day, and strange due time (few hours from now), i have no interpretation for it.
Same OL interface for ToDo:s tasks shows the time of task creation and due time is relative to reminder time (or actual overdue).
It looks like different logic in classic OL tasks and To-Dos tasks.
Okay, that's just the task into my ToDo list to clarify all that stuff.
Hi Sergei.
Well, I ve been creating and mantaining recurring Outlook Tasks, wich are 90% of the total of mine, during the last 20 years (yes, I know, I am an old man...). Hence, most days of my life are marked by the popping out of some recurring task. :-)))
Also, since I own a couple of iPhones (and a couple of iPads), I am very disappointed by the native synchronization of Outlook Tasks with IOS Reminders. Therefore I hoped that To-Do could offer a better experience.
Unfortunately, To-Do makes a VERY poor job in importing recurring Outlook Tasks, as you are confirming, and so I am still more disappointed!
Candy Ho: are you aware that recurring Outlook Tasks (and also not recurring ones) get broken in To-Do? Do you plan to address such issues?
Candy HoMicrosoft
Hi Salvatore,
Yes, we are aware of it and actively working on a fix. Hopefully it will be working soon. We will let you know if there are any updates. Thanks for bearing with us on this.
Candy- Wow! 05-02-2017 and now it's 08-18-2018 and the sync between Outlook tasks and To-Do tasks is every bit as broken as it was back then!
This is an amazingly long time to be 'actively working on a fix' and not succeeding, don't you think?
