Alarm is not working for GroupWise Appointments

  • 7001015
  • 24-Jul-2008
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 7 Support Pack 3 Hot Patch 1
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 3
Microsoft Windows XP support Pack 2
Novell NetWare 6.5 Suport pack 7


Situation

Setting Alarm to take any action does not work.

e.g. Configuring an alarm for an appointment in the calendar to launch an application. When we configure to get it to launch a batch file which will run GWsend. Also tried to get it to open an executable, document, image.

Resolution

It has been fixed in GroupWise 7 Support Pack 3 Hot Patch 2 and later version.

Additional Information

Steps to duplicate,

1. Create a new appointment
2. Set the alarm for the appointment.
3. When setting the alarm, specify an application to launch in the "Program to launch when alarm goes off" box.

GroupWise does not initiate with the program or File specified in the Alarm.