Outlook Spy definitely shows a <filter> tag here in ActiveExplorer.CurrentView.XML. In XML, you need to use special character tokens for both kinds of quotation marks. See if this works better:
<filter>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Keywords" = 'b'</filter>
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"sn" <stigbn[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1173773631.316461.5980[ at ]h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text] >I am using OL2003 and am trying programmatically to set a filter on a
> calendar view by editing the View.XML.
>
> I have no problems settings filters programatically on table views in
> the XML of table views, but for calendar views, the filter tag does
> not seem to part of the XML, and the exact same filter works on table,
> timeline, card and icon views.
>
> When I change a day/week/month view manually in Outlook and set a
> filter to only include items with the category 'b', then I would have
> expected to find something like this in the View.XML:
>
> <filter>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Keywords" = 'b'</
> filter>
>
> But the filter works, and only appointments having the category b is
> shown in the view, but there is no filter tag in the xml for day/week/
> month views.
>
> When I try to set the filter programmatically by inserting filter tag
> in the view.xml for a day/week/month view then the filter does not
> work, ie. nothing is filtered in the view. This is probably related to
> the fact that filters are not shown in the view.XML as I described
> above.
>
> The way I am setting filters programmatically works for table, card,
> timeline and icon views, so it is not there the problem is.
>
> Has anybody found a way to programmatically filter day/week/month
> views? or is this a known bug in calendar views ?
>
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