In the next window, you can change the color assigned to a particular category by clicking that category's color.

To access and personalize categories on a Mac, click on the Categorize button in the ribbon in Outlook and choose Edit Categories.

You can also add and remove categories by clicking on the New. and Delete buttons on the right.

In the next window, you can change the color assigned to a particular category by clicking on the check box beside a category and choosing a color from the dropdown menu to the right.

To access and personalize categories on a PC, click on the Categorize button in the ribbon in Outlook and choose All Categories.

These are color-coded and can be used to visually signify different types of emails, contacts, and calendar items. One of these tools is the integration of Categories. Then sort by Message Class and look for an item with the class comes with a number of tools to help keep your email, calendars, and contacts organized. Open the mailbox with MFCMAPI and open the associated contents table of the calendar folder You can find all categories in a property of a FAI:

The list of color categories in a mailbox is stored in a hidden message in the Calendar folder of a mailbox. On all other folders Reviewer is sufficient for categories.

The delegate needs to have Owner permissions on the folder in order to get the full functionality for categories. In the end it all came down to the permissions on the Calendar. But when I checked this folder ther user had already Publishing Editor like on the other folders. It must has to do with the permissions on the Calendar folder. Therefore, if you are working in any shared folder of another user’s mailbox, you must have at least Reviewer permissions to the other user’s Calendar folder to view and apply the other user’s categories, and Owner permissions to create new categories, or delete existing categories for any shared folder in the other user’s mailbox. You cannot change a user’s categories when you work as a delegate in OutlookĪfter reading the article careful multiple times, I found a hint: I’ve found a matching KB article for my issue: Why was it still not working, even with Owner permissions? So I thought that would be an easy one and I was going to tell them how to fix this….but before I checked the folder’s permissions and realized that the delegate had Publishing Editor assigned.Īfter some testing we decided to grant Owner permission, but the delegate were still not able to work with categories. I knew you need to have at least Reviewer permissions on the shared folder in order to work with categories. Recently I had an interesting issue related to a delegate scenario in conjunction with categories:Ī delegate was not able use categories in a shared mailbox.

Color categories in outlook calendar