Tasks and Time Management in Outlook

Hi!

I'd almost say it's great, but the Upcoming Appointments gadget has a serious issue:

It doesn't get the date format per the reginoal settings of the machine, it writes it in US format, no matter where I'm from.

For example, in Outlook I see this (due to my Hungarian settings):

K 12-12 17:00 - 18:00

While in the sidebar it says:

Tue 12/12 17:00 PM - 18:00 PM

It's very bad like this at the moment.

Other than that, it's great.

(Oh, and the recurrence icon looks a bit retarded.)

No good for me as it reads the data in the local PST file insteead of my Exchange account :(

Over on Melissa's & Ryan's blog they announce the Outlook 2007 Sidebar gadgets for download:  Outlook

Why don't the gadget's poll Outlook if Outlook isn't open?

very cool. I'm using them both.

Shame they don't show something (or just disappear) if Outlook isn't running (rather than saying "Outlook not running")

Also... any chance of a WLM (or Communicator) gadget so we can dock that (and I'll add my 2c for a OneNote gadget as well)

Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTP Adobe Illustrator XAML exporter for "WPF/E" The Outlook

I find the Sidebar gadgets in Windows Vista appealing. I never thought this would happen. I've looked...

It would be great to see support for task folders other than the "To-Do list" in the future.

I just came to know that you guys have taken the stupidest decision of replacing the IE-based HTML engine with the Word one. Goodbye Outlook.

GCRya,

You can subscribe to your GCal by going to Tools -> Account Settings -> Internet Calendars | New; and pasting your Private iCal URL you obtained from GCal.

-can

The Outlook Upcoming Appointments Gadget

Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to make this gadget read the contents of another folder besides the personal folder when gathering calendar data. It appears it shows only the upcoming appointments for calendars that have their data saved in the personal folder or it only reads the default calendar. I have internet calendars that are updated once a week with new appointments for me. Was wondering if I could get this gadget to read the data for these?

It would appear the reading of the appointments occurs here in the javascript?:

var session = application.Session;

var folder = session.GetDefaultFolder(9);

var items = folder.Items;

Any ideas/insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

The desksware product doesn't address the same need that the gadgets do. Having a gadget makes the information available instantly, no hassle. An example of something 'better' would be the Trog Bar ( http://www.priacta.com/trog ), since it's still a sidebar (though not a gadget,) light weight, does everything the gadgets do in the same amount of space, and does MORE than the gadgets do (manage email, edit tasks and calendar without opening Outlook, etc.)

On another note, I saw the gadgets a while ago. It looked like they had some serious bugs and shortcomings. Have these ever been addressed?

I would really love to see Outlook's calendar itself incorporated into a gadget, instead of the calendar gadget we have now. The appointments is great, but let's have the whole calendar!

Hi,

What if I develop gadget with .NET interop that communicates with outlook through .NET component.

Will outlook AD users see their tasks/appointments then  ?