Horizontal Mouse Wheel in Outlook Calendar

Hi Community,

I want to use the horizontal mouse wheel of my Logitech MX 4 Master to scroll through the weeks in the Outlook Calendar.

Since a trackpad two finger swipe left/right is doing exactly that I thought the "Scroll Modifier: Smooth Scrolling (like trackpad)" would do the job. Unfortunately it's not working in the Outlook Calendar.

Second I tried to set the shortcuts for next/previous week to the horizontal mouse wheel, but then it behaves really nervous - a slight move of the mouse wheel changes multiple weeks. This potential solution also does not show the nice animation, when you switch between weeks (that you have with the two finger swipe left/right).

Does anyone have an idea on how to setup this UseCase?

Thank you and have a great day.

Best Regards,
Volker

I'll need to do some experiments, unfortunately this whole "trackpad" swiping is very undocumented which is why BTT uses various tricks to achieve it. It works great in apple calendar now, but I can confirm it does not yet work in Outlook.

I did look into it but could not yet figure out how to make outlook react to scrolls.

Maybe for now your idea with using the Next Week / Previous Week menu items is best for now, you could debounce it using BTT's debounce action:

That works pretty good - thank you Andreas.

Hi Andreas,

for some reason the debounce action does no longer work to prevent this usecase from switching multiple weeks in outlook with just a little movement of the mouse-wheel.

For test purpose I've set it to 5s, but I still can move multiple weeks within less than a second.

Could you please double-check on your end?

Thank you and happy eastern.

Best regards,
Volker

Hi Andreas,
any idea why the debounce action in the trigger below is not working? For testing purpose I've set it to 5s, but I can trigger multiple events within seconds (see also video).

exported_triggers.bttpreset (5.5 KB)

Thank you and have a great evening.

Best,
Volker

in your screenshot you have the debounce AFTER the actions, but it will only debounce actions that come after the debounce!

Well, that's how you proposed it in your previous post.

Nevermind, I've already tried to put it in front and of course if it works, but always gives me one more trigger than i want. Because I stop scrolling when I am in the right week and then it triggers one more time after the debounce action is run through.

Any idea/hint how to solve this?

My other attempt leaded me to this feature request: Scroll Modifier: Option to "Only Apply to horizontal/vertical Scroll Events"

oops :laughing: must have accidentally dragged it into the wrong order.
I think I can add an option to prevent that last trigger, I'll check!

Such things happen :smiley:

Would be cool to have such an option added. Meanwhile I've build the functionality by my own with the power of BTT: