Calendar & Court Dates Setup & sync

A court date is in my calendar but never appeared in Acquit. Where did it go?

Nothing goes missing quietly: SettingsCalendar issues lists every diary entry sync couldn’t turn into a court date. The menu item carries a count when something is waiting.

Entries are grouped by what would fix them:

  • Needs an abbreviation mapped: the entry looks like court work but uses shorthand Acquit doesn’t know. Type what it stands for and click the tick, and that entry plus every future one using the same shorthand is read correctly.
  • Doesn’t look like a court date: no court was found in it, so each one asks whether entries like it should sync. Answer Yes, sync it for real work that isn’t an appearance (a conference, a filing deadline): it and every future entry worded the same way come through as events on the client’s matter. Answer No, skip them and they’re hidden. Acquit works the name out from the entry, and you can rename or remove it later under SettingsCalendar recognition.
  • Other entries that couldn’t be processed: something went wrong reading these. We can see them too and look into them.

Every entry is shown the way it appears in your diary: the full title, its date and time, the location line as you typed it, and its Outlook category. The arrow button opens the entry in Outlook.

Dismissing entries

Dismissing is permanent, and it’s per entry: a dismissed entry stays dismissed even though your calendar keeps syncing. If a whole kind of entry should never sync (every supervision appointment, say), use Never sync entries containing a word instead. Acquit shows how many of your entries the word would catch before you commit, and warns when it’s broad enough to swallow real court dates.

Courts Acquit doesn’t cover

A separate list further down shows entries naming courts Acquit holds no lists for. Acquit covers Queensland Magistrates, District and Supreme courts only, so the Childrens Court, QCAT, the Mental Health Review Tribunal, the Coroners Court, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and federal courts can’t become court dates. There’s nothing to fix, and they aren’t counted against how well Acquit reads your calendar.

The list keeps itself current

Opening the page re-reads every entry against your calendar and against how Acquit reads diaries today. Entries you’ve deleted from Outlook disappear, and anything Acquit has since learned to handle clears on its own. Entries also clear themselves 90 days after they stop appearing in your calendar.

Note: an entry marked “partial wording” was recorded before Acquit kept full titles and is no longer in Outlook, so only its wording is incomplete.

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