Why doesn’t manually adding color catagories change the colors of shared calendar?

28. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

The issue is that in the office we use a Shared "events calendar" . One person is editor for this calendar. The calendar uses color coding to indicate different events, departments within our company, birthdays, etc. The editor uses custom colors to identify each of these different events within the calendar. It is known that without an add in ( such as CodeTwo CatMan) it isn't possible for the colors that our editor uses, to show up on everyone else's calendar. To everyone else, since they do not have custom colors added like our editor does, the calendar shows up grey.

 

 I started manually adding the exact same catagories as the editor has, and named them the exact same way she has them on her computer, but they still did not show up as planned, also a window popped up saying that the user did not have permissions to change the colors, yet the added color list was applied?

 

Help.

Can delegate access be granted for only one calendar?

19. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

We have an issue in the office regarding personal settings. Our admin uses custom colors in our events calendar ( which is a shared calendar) to identify different departments in the company, events,etc. As you may already know, the custom colors show up for our admin because she was the one who set the catagories on her computer.However, for everyone else in the office, because they do not have the same color catagories that admin does, the colors do not show up for them. We know that CodeTwo CatMan is the perfect add in for us, but the current location of our calendar does not allow us to utilize this add in.

Other minor issues include;

1. Wanting to send a week reminder for birthdays( which is an event in the shared calendar) to only admin, not anyone else involved in the calendar

2. When a vacation(which is identified by someones intials, color coded to show which department they are from, and is in shared calendar) is noticed, 1 day before the person goes on vacation, we want a notification to send only to that person to change their email to "out of office".

 

Is there a way to grant delegate access only for the events calendar? Would this allow everything to show up the same for anyone ( and would it solve any of our minor issues?) We still want all the employees to be able to have control of everything in outlook, except this one calendar.