Re: Calendar Event Reminder with AppleScript Execution
Re: Calendar Event Reminder with AppleScript Execution
- Subject: Re: Calendar Event Reminder with AppleScript Execution
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:54:57 -0700
On 5/27/03 2:23 PM, "Matyas Ferenc Farkas" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Can I Execute a Script, when an Entourage Calendar Event Reminder notifying
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me at the Microsoft Office Notification? It has a dictionary, but it is
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empty. The Entourage do not has a Calendar Suite. Or I have to write
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TerminalScripts and atach them at Crontab, but can I connect the Entourage
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Calender Events database and the execution times of Crontab?. Or I have to
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write a plug in for Entourage to do this (that is not a case of reality :D).
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How does the Microsoft Office Notification schedule its notifications? Via
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crontab?
You can't do any of this. as you say, Office Notifications is not
scriptable. Microsoft do not make their APIs available so you can't get into
the database. The way you would have to do this would be to continually
check the general Entourage Database by AppleScript to see which calendar
were coming up soon, what their reminder times are, and then send an email
by script at the same time as the reminder time. You'd probably have to run
this script from a frequent Entourage schedule in order to send the email at
the correct time. You'd have to keep careful records in script properties of
current events - so you'd only have to do that part once a day. The really
hard part would be parsing the recurrence properties or recurring events,
since otherwise you'll never know about these, and having to check every
recurring event in the database for this purpose.
Some time back, I decided that this was really too much trouble for
something that would not even be precise. Why not request that Office
Notifications be made scriptable instead?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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