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Happy New Year! - Filemaker Applescript email help needed
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Happy New Year! - Filemaker Applescript email help needed


  • Subject: Happy New Year! - Filemaker Applescript email help needed
  • From: DealTek <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:48:40 -0800

Happy New Year,

I posted this on an Filemaker site but would also love some input from here since it's all about applescript

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Hi All - I have an Filemaker script that send out many emails (sometimes hundreds) to to companies clients. Until recently the company has been using entourage 2008 on a mac. I set the email send step to UNCHECK perform without dialog - and they would all neatly accumulate in the draft box so they could be reviewed and sent when the user needed to sometime later...

Now I see that some of them moved to outlook 2011 on mac and the script does still put them in the draft box but they are not in a saved state but remain open so this means hundreds of open windows. When you close and reopen outlook all extra windows get closed - but this is very messy.

BTW: SAME problem with open windows happens in apple mail...

So I'm looking to create an applescript that closes the active window just created by fm... So I added this applescript script step in Filemaker....


------
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
	activate -- maybe can skip this step
end tell

tell application "System Events"
	keystroke "w" using command down
end tell
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which sort of works, but I need to add the following....

Q: others may not be using outlook 2011 so how do I check if the active default mac email app is "outlook 2011"?

like in fm or inside the AS...??? :

if active default email app is "outlook 2011" ???

then run applescript and close the window (also best to only close if it's a new email in drafts.... hmmm?)

endif


Thanks in advance and HAPPY NEW YEAR!




--
Thanks,
Dave - DealTek
email@hidden
[db-11]



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