Restrict Function Not Working Properly with Recurring Items

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Restrict Function Not Working Properly with Recurring Items

Amir 11

It seems that the Restrict function is not working properly with Calendar items. Specifically, when a filter is passed to return calendar items within a specified time, then recurring meetings are returned do not occur between the times specified in the filter.

Problem can be reproduced as follows:

Calendar = outlook_mapi.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderCalendar)
all_messages = calendar.Items
all_messages.IncludeRecurrences = True
all_messages = all_messages.Restrict(f"[Start] >= '{date_str} 12:00AM' And [Start] <= '{date_str} 11:59PM'")
where date_str =f"{month}/{day}/{year}" and month/day/year is the particular date that we want to read the calendar

This then returns all recurring meetings in a user's calendar, irrespective of whether they occur on the specified time above or not.

Carlos Solís Salazar 18,196 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-07-25T13:48:07.777+00:00

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Li, Xiangrui 6 Reputation points

2022-08-22T19:04:16.59+00:00
I encountered the same issue. Suppose I set up a meeting at 4:00PM Friday 8/26/2022, and let it recur for each Friday.

If I use [Start] to filter Items.Restrict on the following Monday, the event still appears, while no event appears on calendar view;

It appears on the following Friday (9/2) correctly, but the Item on 9/2 still gives Start of 8/26/2022 4:00PM.

Items.IncludeRecurrences value is false at above situations, and it still shows false after set it as true.

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Carlos Solís Salazar 18,196 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2022-07-25T13:48:07.777+00:00

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Li, Xiangrui 6 Reputation points

2022-08-22T19:04:16.59+00:00

I encountered the same issue. Suppose I set up a meeting at 4:00PM Friday 8/26/2022, and let it recur for each Friday.

If I use [Start] to filter Items.Restrict on the following Monday, the event still appears, while no event appears on calendar view;

It appears on the following Friday (9/2) correctly, but the Item on 9/2 still gives Start of 8/26/2022 4:00PM.

Items.IncludeRecurrences value is false at above situations, and it still shows false after set it as true.

Answer 1

Li, Xiangrui 6

I found a solution for the issue, that is to sort the items then Restrict, and maybe Restrict again. Here is the pseudo code:

Calendar = outlook_mapi.GetDefaultFolder(OlDefaultFolders.olFolderCalendar)
myItems = calendar.Items(filter) # use your filter
myItems.IncludeRecurrences = True # apply this to my items, not all items
myItems.Sort("[Start]")
myItems= myItems.Restrict(filter)

Cheers!

Thierry Dalon 5 Reputation points

2023-11-16T15:40:10.35+00:00

This does not work for me

Answer 2

Amir Gholami 1

@Carlos Solís Salazar
Hey Carlos,

Can you please forward this question to one of the engineers in Outlook team? They seem to have merged a code that has broken the functionality of searching recurring items.

Thanks,

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