Re: Entourage & Dialog Director
Re: Entourage & Dialog Director
- Subject: Re: Entourage & Dialog Director
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:28:44 -0700
On 4/20/01 8:51 AM, "Stephen Swift (aka Burnum)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm working with a script with Entourage and ran into a problem with the
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link command. I can link anything in Entourage fine, I just have to look up
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it's ID. However, the problem comes when linking an existing file.
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Entourage creates a new ID for that file when I link in Entourage such as
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+class cFil; id 5 of application "Microsoft Entourage". I'm not sure how to
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do this in AppleScript. Alias "Macintosh:Folder:File" returns an error
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saying that Entourage needs a reference. Any ideas on how to create an id
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for a file or get Entourage to link to an alias reference?
It's a limitation in the current release of Entourage: you can't link to a
file by AppleScript. Even getting the links of an Entourage object gives you
an unusable reference for file links. I have been assured that that will be
fixed for the next release so that the file reference is an alias and it
will be settable (and I'll be in a position to make sure that that assurance
is not forgotten!)
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Paul Berkowitz