You're right; you can't achieve quite what you want in Entourage. However: If you do a custom view that includes the three categories you are looking for (some messages with two or all three of them), you can then use the quick filter in the upper right to filter the list by individual category. Thus, you have a custom view window showing messages containing any or all of the three categories. Then, you filter for Category A; only category A messages show. This is analogous to having a group for category A and expanding it, and having it show all the messages with A (even if they are also in other categories). Filter on B, and you get all the B messages. Same for C.
Different mechanism, same result--yes? On or near 3/26/02 3:46 AM, David Wignall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > on 26/3/02 9:48 pm, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Custom Views. > > Tried that. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Let's see... > > All mail from this list gets assigned the category Mailing List. All mail > from this list, including ones I have written, about _this_ topic are > assigned the category Discussion. Any mail I send gets assigned the Personal > category. Thus all mail from the list has one category. A subset of this has > two categories and a subset of _that_ has three categories. > > I create a Custom View. Three criteria: Category Is Mailing List, Category > Is Personal, Category Is Discussion. Match if any criteria are met. > > The view gives me, when sorted by category, all the Mailing List messages > and then all the Discussion messages. But that last set of messages, the > Discussion ones, do not _also_ appear amidst the Mailing List set. > > This is what I expected. What I'm looking for is: all appear under Mailing > List, some _also_ appear under Discussion and some others appear a third > time under Personal. All this preferably with some way to collapse and > expand the groups of categories; an analogous mechanism to View Threaded. > > You could describe it as Entourage considering categories assigned as one > property rather than each category being a property in it's own right. > > Another, minor, issue is that I get the idea that I would have to create > custom views for each case. Outlook will automatically add new groupings as > items with new categories appear in whichever folder I'm viewing. > > None of this should be taken as a moan. As I said before it's a lovely tool > but that's all it is. Outlook has issues. You may be familiar with them. :} > > <snipping good stuff> > >> You'll find a few more sophistications and subtleties (and common sense) >> about them when you eventually upgrade to Entourage X. > > Need a new computer for X. Some day. > >> Have fun. > > Damn straight. You too, my friend. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
