Yes Milly, I had already Googled that and found the offerings wanting. It
turns out that there is nothing that I could find that did an 'automatic'
populating of the calendar based on a given date. There is one (CompuLaw)
that calculates everything in their proprietary app and then will 'export' to
Outlook. The problem is that their app doesn't support exporting to Public
Folders and is very expensive. I am looking for an MVP or programmer who may
have developed something that is a COM plug-in or something similar that
works something like a macro that will automatically calculate dates prior to
a set trial date and then automatically populate the Outlook calendar with
those appropriate dates (a 'tickler' system as Lady D described). There are
some very sophisticated case management systems that do this as well, but
once again they are very pricey. In this case, Google was not a very good
friend, but rather a tease.

Anyone else who has something constructive to contribute?

Lady D - should I contact you off-list to discuss your law-firm related needs?

"Lady Dungeness" wrote:

Milly,

Those law office programs cost a lot of money. Especially for small
practices, why shouldn't we take advantage of the tools in the Office suite?
There's enough power in these applications to allow us to meet our needs,
with a bit of tweaking.

I think what OP was looking for was how to automate a tickler system; when a
trial date comes up, trial-prep deadline schedule based on the case type,
enter the trial date, and bingo, the calendars are populated with calendar
deadlines and schedules for what to do, when to do it, and when the deadline
is.

I'm willing to bet that OP already knew about the commerical products on the
market, the cost, and the conflicts they have with already intstalled
software such as Outlook.

These groups have gotten into a habit lately of saying "Google is your
friend." Just what is that supposed to mean? Does that mean, don't post to
our group because Google is out there? Then why not close down the
newsgroups?

Don't mean to be ornery; just trying to express my point of view.

Lady D
Dungeness are Crabby



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
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Geez - can't anyone do anything for themselves anymore??????

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...uling+software

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After furious head scratching, Lady Dungeness asked:

| John -- please stick around; I'm needing help with law-office related
| issues, too;
|
| Lady D
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote in message
| ...
| google is your friend.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, John Simons asked:
|
|| I have a law firm client who is running SBS 2003 with OL2003 on the
|| desktops. They are looking for a way to autocreate calendar items on
|| the group calendar based on an upcoming trial date. These items can
|| be a various time intervals prior to the trial date. Is there a way
|| to autocreate (I assume using macros) these calendar/task items
|| and/or is there an applet already out there that does this? thanks
|| for any help you can provide.
||
|| John Simons
|| Simons Computer Services