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mande1191
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Mar 16, 2024

Interaction New Outlook to ToDo

In the new Outlook, interactions between ToDo and Outlook can be easily made by drag & drop. This as workarounds, as long as there are no corresponding QuickSteps. Small, important things have to be considered.

 

I have created two small quickies (short videos). I'm looking forward to your answers.  :cool:

 

Best regards

 

Andreas

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  • Hi mande1191 - my friend,

     

    I have reviewed your videos. Thanks for sharing. 

     

    Here are my thoughts. I don't believe there is a workaround. These are great suggestions for Microsoft. I plan to share it with the Outlook Team. However, here are my thoughts.

     

    Video 1: Drag and Drop a MyDay Task to Calendar

    1) Could you please provide more information about what you're hoping to achieve with your first video? I just wanted to clarify that typically, when an email is added to a calendar event, it doesn't create a task. However, in the example you mentioned where a task is dragged onto the calendar, if any changes are made to the calendar event, it can cause the details in the task to become disconnected. This is a known issue with all tasks.

     

    Video 2: Drag and Drop an Email to MyDay as a Calendar Event

    I agree that the default addition of participants isn't ideal. I often forget to remove them. I hope Microsoft will allow users to enable/disable adding participants as default.


    Again, I have not discovered a workaround.

     

    If you find this information helpful, please mark it as the best response, which will assist others with the same question.

    /Teresa
    #traccreations4e 3/17/2024

     

    • mande1191's avatar
      mande1191
      Steel Contributor

      Hi Teresa_Cyrus 

       

      Thank you very much for your feedback, which I greatly appreciate.

       

      Video 1: 

      As an example, I was in Italy for the last two weeks and had no access to PC/no notebook. However, I can still "mark" information (e.g. emails, websites etc.) with my mobile devices (iOS) by sharing this information in iOS with ToDo. At home, I can then structure these "tasks" on the PC/notebook in terms of time, i.e. schedule them by "dragging" them into the calendar. The fact that all information and details such as links and steps are lost as a result (drag & drop task to calendar) is very, very, very unpleasant. I hope that MS will correct this soon.

       

      Video 2:

      Yes, I also hope that MS fixes it as soon as possible. It has already happened to me that dozens of users have received a rejection e-mail from a meeting to which they were not even invited.

       

      Best regards

       

      Andreas

      • Teresa_Cyrus's avatar
        Teresa_Cyrus
        MVP

        mande1191 

         

        Video 1: Great feedback. I will pass this along to the Outlook Team.

        Yes, I also need a feature to update my task whenever an email is modified or additional correspondence is received. I feel your pain. 😁

        Please remember to mark my original answer as the best response, which will help others with the same request.

        /Teresa

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