Re: Getting recurring event instance for specific day in iCal
Re: Getting recurring event instance for specific day in iCal
- Subject: Re: Getting recurring event instance for specific day in iCal
- From: Loren Ryter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:43:35 -0400
- Thread-topic: Getting recurring event instance for specific day in iCal
I would add that:
1. people have written subroutines for parsing the recurrence property but
that it's complicated and you may want to avoid it. Scott Tooker wrote a
decent one in 2003 for Today's Schedule widget. I believe I saw another
more recent variant on Script Builders at macscripter.
2. There are going to be serious cross compatibility issues with
Tiger/Leopard when scripting iCal you should be aware of in particular:
-- using UID vs ID (compiles differently)
-- doing anything with making dates from strings (there are work arounds --
instead of using a date string you can set the month, day, year, hour,
minute of a temporary date object to integers)
3. All this would be resolved on Leopard if Calendar Store support where
part of Standard Additions. I'm working on a limited call method for this
but no promises any time soon. Please send feedback to apple about this.
On 06/08/08 4:37 AM, "John Maisey" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm trying to script iCal to show an event by passing the UID.
>> Unfortunately, it seems that only passing the UID to a recurring event
>> will retrieve the original event.
>> Because of this, I am trying to shift to passing the summary and start
>> date since it's a bit more readable in the code. I've been
>> unsuccessful in getting this to work successfully.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on why this won't successfully fetch
>> the specific event (assuming it exists).
>
> Aside from the issues with the 'whose' clause that Ed Stocky mentions.
> When you refer to the 'start date' property of a recurring event it is
> the start date of the first instance. To find the start date in later
> occurrences of the event is more difficult. The only way using
> Applescript to do this would be to calculate when the recurrences
> occur from the 'recurrence' property of the event, then compare this
> to your target date range.
>
> John Maisey
> www.nhoj.co.uk
>
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