Re: How to grab Now calendar categories & choose in dialog?
Re: How to grab Now calendar categories & choose in dialog?
- Subject: Re: How to grab Now calendar categories & choose in dialog?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:23:06 -0800
On 1/18/02 2:45 PM, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 02-01-18 3:54 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> (Just in case anybody's wondering: no such limitations in Entourage.)
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Yeah, but what about all those other limitations? :-)
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Most of the scripting gaps, such as there were, on the PIM side, have been
filled or fixed in Entourage X, the first update to the first release of
Entourage. The email side was superbly scriptable to begin with. Custom
Views still don't do much, but otherwise, what do you find still missing?
You can now set due date in Tasks, and reminders in events, the two really
glaring gaps in 2001. The 'whose' bug of category of contacts was fixed too.
You can export and import message folders as MBOX files. I'm just about
finished a huge set of scripts to import and export Everything:
excruciatingly complex workarounds were needed for some of the 2001 scripts,
but in X-to-X exports/imports everything works nicely. It would be nice to
get "date modified" for every application object, not just contacts, and I
am pushing for that for a future release. The only real scripting gaps are
in Mail Rules, Schedules and Custom Views: I think trying to actually get
the criteria as set by the user would be too complex: I don't know of any
app that does anything like that by script. But you should be able to get
the results other than by selection. Actually scripting the all same
criteria in AppleScript is very easy with whose filters: in fact you can do
much more complex AND/OR criteria by AppleScript than Entourage does in the
UI. A later project will be to mirror these features in an AS Studio
project, where I'll probably need your help from time to time.
But otherwise it all seems quite scriptable to me. What gaps do you mean,
and have you checked for them in Entourage X?
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Paul Berkowitz