"Nathan Sokalski" <njsokalski********.com> wrote:

>Well, I guess that makes sense, although I think it is an extremely poor
>design. What's the point of having a place to display upcoming events if
>they don't get displayed until they're currently happening and no longer
>upcoming? Well, maybe someday they'll fix it in the next version of Windows
>Mobile or if we get REALLY lucky release a fix. It's a design decision as
>bad as when they renamed half the applications in the move to Windows Vista!
>We can only hope.

I found this thread while trying to understand why both my old iPAQ
2210/15 (under WM 2003) and my new HTC Touch Pro 2 (under WM 6.1) are
displaying only one appointment on my Today screen. Looks like MS
haven't fixed this basic problem over the period of 6 or more years!

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here, but the issue seems worse than
Todd described. I haven't pinned it down, but here are some
observations, all made with "Upcoming appointments" enabled.

- While testing this morning I have at some stage seen two entries,
but can no longer repeat that.

- I had an all day event in my series of appointments, spread over 3
days. I have changed it to a normal appointment. But still not getting
the correct result.

- Test #1 has these in Calendar:
Tues (Today): Normal appointment
Wed (Tomorrow): Normal appointment
Thurs: Normal that was originally an all day
Fri: Normal

But only Tues is shown.

- Test #2, as above but deleted Thurs, so now have 3 appointments in
near future, all 'normal'.
Tues: Normal
Wed: Normal
Fri: Normal

Only Tues is shown.

I tried soft resets but no difference.

Do others ever see multiple appointments (without third party add-ons)
and if so what's the trick please?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

At 21 Jul 2009 10:23:35 +0100 Terry Pinnell wrote:

> >Well, I guess that makes sense, although I think it is an extremely
poor
> >design. What's the point of having a place to display upcoming events
if
> >they don't get displayed until they're currently happening and no
longer
> >upcoming? Well, maybe someday they'll fix it in the next version of
Windows
> >Mobile or if we get REALLY lucky release a fix. It's a design decision
as
> >bad as when they renamed half the applications in the move to Windows
Vista!
> >We can only hope.
>
> I found this thread while trying to understand why both my old iPAQ
> 2210/15 (under WM 2003) and my new HTC Touch Pro 2 (under WM 6.1) are
> displaying only one appointment on my Today screen. Looks like MS
> haven't fixed this basic problem over the period of 6 or more years!
>
> Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here, but the issue seems worse than
> Todd described. I haven't pinned it down, but here are some
> observations, all made with "Upcoming appointments" enabled.
>
> - While testing this morning I have at some stage seen two entries,
> but can no longer repeat that.
>
> - I had an all day event in my series of appointments, spread over 3
> days. I have changed it to a normal appointment. But still not getting
> the correct result.
>
> - Test #1 has these in Calendar:
> Tues (Today): Normal appointment
> Wed (Tomorrow): Normal appointment
> Thurs: Normal that was originally an all day
> Fri: Normal
>
> But only Tues is shown.
>
> - Test #2, as above but deleted Thurs, so now have 3 appointments in
> near future, all 'normal'.
> Tues: Normal
> Wed: Normal
> Fri: Normal
>
> Only Tues is shown.
>
> I tried soft resets but no difference.
>
> Do others ever see multiple appointments (without third party add-ons)
> and if so what's the trick please?

I suspect the design theory is that it's a "Today" screen, not a "Week-at-
Glance" screen, so events on future days do not show _unless_ there are
no upcoming events today. When the last of today's appointments begins,
future day's appointments will appear.


All day events really mess things up, and aren't shown as "upcoming"-
they only show on the actual day. Due to this, and time-zone shifting
problems, I stopped using all-day events and just make long events (e.g.
6AM-6PM).