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Outlook Task times

kevin.forster says:
I am using RTM to send my tasks to Outlook, using iCalendar (events) but every task that gets sent to Outlook reverts to a time estimate of 1 hour.

Could the actual task length be populated in Outlook so that I can see the overview of tasks (I have some overlapping tasks that range from 1 month, to 30 minutes).
Posted at 10:26am on September 4, 2007
mb01915 says:
You have an Outlook problem not a RTM problem. Outlook is proprietary and not very open to developers. It is not Google which is wide open and encourages developers to come up with new ways to work with their software. We cannot expect RTM to make Outlook work better.
Posted 17 years ago
kevin.forster says:
"You have an Outlook problem not a RTM problem"

Untrue. If you sync from Google calander to Outlook, you can create tasks that are of any length, so it is not an Outlook problem it is the sync'ing between RTM and Outlook that is the problem. If Google can do it (I use SyncMyCal to Sync from Google to Outlook) then RTM should be able to do it.

I appreciate you trying to answer the question, but incorrect answers aren't going to help the developers fix the issue.
Posted 17 years ago
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Kevin, for the iCalendar (Events) feed, we set the duration of each event to be 1hr so that all tasks show up on the calendar. The reason for this is that not all tasks may have time estimates, and that the time estimate for a task isn't necessarily the same as an event duration (e.g. if a report is due at 9am and has a time estimate of 6hrs, this doesn't mean that it should show as an event for the 6hrs immediately before or after the due date -- the report may be worked on at any time). Hope this helps!
Posted 17 years ago
kevin.forster says:
Are there any plans to include an event duration field into the tasks list, as this would enable me to plan tasks that are of fixed length.

I'm trying to view my days in outlook (or possibly Google) with meetings etc, this would also allow me to put holidays etc into it to help plan when meetings are able to take place.

At the moment, I'm running outlook with 2 calendars, one that has duration driven events and one that has the RTM events
Posted 17 years ago
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
We don't have any plans to include event duration, sorry!
Posted 17 years ago
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