47 Responses to “Google Desktop Gadget – Outlook Tasks”

1. on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:40 pm1Anonymous

   Ben,

   I have to say I love your Outlook Task gadget. It works wonderful. I had a couple of questions.

   1. Is there a way to set the completed tasks to drop off the list after a number of days or even immediately if I wanted?

   2. Anyway to include the task category in both the sorting and even in the task list. i.e. Category – Task Subject?

   3. Can I have the sure date show? Can I sort to have those with a due date at the top?

   Thanks,

   Jason

2. on 27 Jun 2007 at 9:16 pm2Anonymous

   Would this work with OWA tasks?

3. on 03 Jul 2007 at 11:00 am3simon wakeman

   Hi Ben,

   Great gadget – unfortunately I have so many tasks they don’t fit vertically and they don’t seem to scroll vertically.

   Is that right, or could vertical scrolling be added easily?

   Thanks for making it available

   cheers
   sw

4. on 10 Jul 2007 at 2:46 pm4ben

   Hi Ben. I am do at setting taks, but unless i am looking at it, i lose track. So for me this is the most useful google desktop gadget! I am very very happy with it, but are there any features there that i am unaware of!

   THANK YOU! Ben.

5. on 12 Jul 2007 at 6:46 pm5Anonymous

   Please change this so it does truncate my task discription. Thanks – love having my list close at hand.

6. on 12 Jul 2007 at 6:48 pm6Anonymous

   Sorry, I meant to ask that my task description does NOT get truncated. Can this be changed?

7. on 24 Jul 2007 at 12:32 pm7Matt

   Does this work for outlook 2007?

8. on 24 Jul 2007 at 3:24 pm8Ben Coleman

   Yes it works with Outlook 2007

9. on 26 Jul 2007 at 7:37 am9Giorgio

   Great Gadget, anybady knows if there’s an identical one for Win Vista Sidebar ?

   Thanks
   writes to giorgiocard@hotmail.com

10. on 13 Sep 2007 at 9:03 am10Anonymous

    Hi,

    i can’t get this working I am needful of using this please advice how to work with thunderbird 1.5.0.13

    Most Regards
    B Cat

11. on 21 Sep 2007 at 11:31 pm11Awunderlich

    Dude! The link doesn’t work!! =(

    I want to benefit from this beautiful piece of software!

12. on 22 Sep 2007 at 10:27 am12Ben Coleman

    Fixed the link! dunno what happened – but the downloads are working now!

13. on 29 Sep 2007 at 8:12 pm13Anonymous

    How do I change priority?

14. on 01 Oct 2007 at 7:53 am14Ben Coleman

    You can click on the “white space” between the tick box and the task name, and it will toggle between high/none/low priority.

    However I’m working on a new version of this gadget, and this is something I’ll try and make clearer in the new version

15. on 03 Oct 2007 at 6:34 am15NETim

    I have Outlook 2002. Gadget display tasks, and prioriy. It’s ql, but
    1. Could you group uncompleted task in (late, today, future)
    2. Could you add posibility to change sorting (by name/due date)

16. on 03 Oct 2007 at 5:37 pm16CorDeMac

    I can’t get the download to work. I tried on both IE and Firefox and the error page I get says:

    Error in count.log on line 94.
    ./blog/OutlookTasks.gg is already defined.

17. on 18 Oct 2007 at 10:00 pm17mcswainfowler

    Hi Ben,

    This works on my desktop but not on my igoogle.com home page. It reads “Invalid Gadget package”. Any help would be appreciated.

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19. on 08 Nov 2007 at 8:25 pm19francis

    Do you know if .gg files like yours can be embed in an IE instance in say a .NET form?

    Thanks.

20. on 14 Nov 2007 at 10:52 am20Anonymous

    Hi i also like it. Could you implement a feature that doesn`t sort the list like it does now? Or something as: Last Task at the top?

    Very good program, much better then all the other options.

21. on 31 Dec 2007 at 5:25 pm21Michael

    Dude… Nice job. I need it sorted by priority though. Does it support that? If not, can I get a copy of the source so I can change the sort order?

22. on 19 Jan 2008 at 12:52 am22dan

    Can I search my Outlook tasks with this gadget?

23. on 21 Mar 2008 at 12:00 pm23nuc

    Thank you for the useful gadget.
    There seems to be a problem with the program when a task has the character & inside the task header. It doesn’t show that task even after refresh (but you can see it in outlook).
    When I had the “hidden” task writen there was another bug that when I was deleting a task it deleted one task up from the one selected.

24. on 22 Mar 2008 at 9:32 am24Ingo F

    Hi !

    I would like the features named in the very first comment here too.

    Additionally it would be great if the gadet could wrap the description to more then one line if it is too long to show in one line.

    Ingo F

25. on 24 Mar 2008 at 1:08 am25JoeBen

    Hi Ben,

    Thank you SO much for writing this. The old one was horrid. How do I make a donation? Can I pay you to add the ability to change the sort order? Also I am running XP x64 and the scroll bar does not show up (I am running version 2.2.0).

    Thank you,

    JoeBen

26. on 25 Mar 2008 at 12:00 am26Wayne

    Thank you for making this gadget. It’s a very handy device.
    However, – there’s always a “but” – to make it even better as indicted by JoeBen (http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/google-desktop-gadget-outlook-tasks/#comment-2258), I wonder if you would consider having a option to sort the list in the same way as outlook does or in some other manner so it’s in the user’s control.
    Thanks again for your terrific software.
    Wayne

27. on 30 Mar 2008 at 7:11 am27kirk k

    I’m looking to move over t ogoogle desktop but it only works for me if I can find a gadget to sort tasks by category like comment #1 is looking for. Is a sort bu category option coming soon?

28. on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:17 am28Ben Coleman

    @kirk k

    Sorting … I added this feature two versions ago.
    If you look at the feature list and change log – you’ll see it.

    Everyone please be aware – I am restricted in what sorting options I can offer. The Outlook API that Microsoft provide (and I use in my gadget) only permits two levels of fields for sorting and the sorting order is applied to both.

    There is nothing I can do about this, it’s a Microsoft “feature”

29. on 02 Apr 2008 at 3:49 pm29mark

    Hi Ben,

    Do you have any plans to create an outlook widget for Netvibes like the one you have created for igoogle? It’s great!

    Kind regads – Mark

30. on 07 Apr 2008 at 4:14 pm30ben

    i only have outlook 2007, does it work too?

31. on 07 Apr 2008 at 6:08 pm31Juan C. Buchner

    your gadget it’s so so so useful but…transparency?? colors??, need more “eye candy” additions. more lenguages too… great work indeed!

32. on 19 Apr 2008 at 6:23 pm32FSU

    This is a great tool. I like to display the due date in my detail. What determines the date formatting? How can I change it?

33. on 05 May 2008 at 12:37 pm33Esther

    Hi, I like your gadget! Having it work with outlook makes it easy for me to add new tasks & bring them along with me in my pda as well. However, I seem to be having problems:

    1.Once I change anything in the options menu, all the tasks in the gadget’s main window disappers (the tasks still appears in outlook though). Refreshing or restarting the sidebar/computer doesn’t help. I can add new tasks, but they just don’t appear in the main gadget’s window.

    2. Multi-selection of tasks via Ctrl or Shift buttons doesn’t seem to be working. I have to individually select & delete each task from the gadget window.

    Are there any solutions for the above problems?

    Thank you!

34. on 08 May 2008 at 1:36 pm34Danielle

    Thanks a lot! I love this tool as I keep forgetting deadlines that I have unless it’s staring me in the face. LOL.

35. on 29 May 2008 at 4:50 pm35Ukime

    Hey Ben!

    I can’t wait to use your gadget but when I install it and everytime I try to do anything with it, I get the following alert:

    “Failed to find Outlook on your system or failed opening the Outlook MAPI namespace.

    This gadget requires Microsoft Outlook to be installed”

    And immediately after that I get: “Failed to fetch tasks from Outlook. Please check your folder and filter settings”.

    Also, I can see the options but I cannot click on anything.

    I have MS Outlook 2003 (11.8206.8202) SP3 installed in my system (Windows XP Professional SP2).

    Im really bummed cause I love the idea of using your gadget, do you have any idea what’s going on?

    Thank you!!!

36. on 02 Jun 2008 at 1:08 am36==

    It’s very usefull.Thanks!

37. on 05 Jun 2008 at 7:59 pm37RickR

    I love have tasks at hand.

    How about a daily agenda gadget? Show todays or even this weeks meetings etc.

    Please keep up the good work!

38. on 06 Jun 2008 at 4:36 pm38Elissa

    Thanks for the great gadget! I am trying to use this on my Google Apps Start Page. It shows the events with no problem, but I would like to edit the settings to filter only events this week. When I try to edit settings, I get the message “Failed to find Outlook on your system or failed opening the Outlook MAPI namespace. This gadget requires Microsoft Outlook to be installed.” I have Microsoft Outlook 2007 running, and the program obviously detects the program because it is pulling out the tasks. Any advice? Thanks!

39. on 16 Jun 2008 at 5:52 am39greg

    I’m having the same problem as ukime and elissa getting an error code re MAPI namespace and cant make changes to the options. running outlook 2003, any ideas? Greg

40. on 22 Jul 2008 at 2:55 pm40Pablo Moreno-Ger

    Apparently, sorting by priority fails. If I put it on either sort field, the list returns blank.

    I’m using:
    Google Desktop 5.7.0805.16405-en-pb
    Outlook 2007
    Windows XP SP2

    Thanks for this wonderful tool!

41. on 29 Jul 2008 at 8:37 am41Steven Mather

    Doesn’t work. Keeps saying:

    Failed to find Outlook on your system
    or failed opening the Outlook MAPI namespace

    This gadget requires Microsoft Outlook to be installed

    I have Outlook 2007 installed and working

42. on 29 Jul 2008 at 8:58 pm42Steven Mather

    My Gadget does not work, the Oulook Task gadget. I’m running Vista, Office 2007, and the gadget fails to connect with out look. BTW, it also say I have ver. 3.5.2 yet your sight says 3.5.1 is most recent. Any ideas on how to fix this? Here is the error message:

    ———–

    Failed to find Outlook on your system
    or failed opening the Outlook MAPI namespace

    This gadget requires Microsoft Outlook to be installed

43. on 04 Aug 2008 at 3:37 pm43Rick Minerich

    Hi Ben,

    I would really like to use this at work, but I need to be able to filter just work items to display. All of my work items are tagged as @Work.

    So Far I’ve tried:

    [Class] = ‘@Work’
    [Class] = “@Work”
    Class = @Work
    Class = “@Work”

    Etc… you get the idea. Whenever I set a filter I get the following error message:

    —————————
    Outlook Tasks
    —————————
    Failed to fetch tasks from Outlook
    Please check your folder and filter settings
    —————————
    OK
    —————————

    What is the correct syntax for creating a filter?

    Thanks,
    -Rick

44. on 06 Sep 2008 at 4:03 pm44mumfie

    Hi Ben,

    Thanks for the gadget.

    Just to echo the post above, I would like to filter by uncompleted tasks so that completed ones disappear. can you tell me the correct syntax for doing so please.

    Also, as other people have said, it would be great if the tasks could be sorted by category. If that’s not possible, a quick click to only show tasks in a particular category would be a good variation.

    Also I have no scroll bars, either horizontal or vertical, both of which would be handy.

45. on 12 Feb 2009 at 11:19 am45Jochem

    Ben,

    I am looking for a Google Gadget that displays upcoming birthdays from outlook. Sort of like http://www.jarig.org/

    Have not been able to find it and think it might be very easy for you to make as it resembles your outlook tasks gadget.

    People would love it (I would anyway )

    Regards,

    Jochem

46. on 20 May 2009 at 5:49 pm46Jenyay

    I solve problem with priority sort. Patched version – http://jenyay.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/outlook-tasks-patched.gg.

    Error was that field “Priority” is no. There is a field “importance”.

47. on 02 Nov 2009 at 5:59 am47Brian

    Thank you for developing this gadget. It works flawlessly and I really like it.

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