On 10/18/00 11:37 PM, "Bruce Klutchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> When trying to run your script, "Display all Contacts' Categories E", it
> quits with the following error message: "Microsoft Entourage got an error: A
> descriptor type mismatch occurred."
>
> I believe this may have happened because one of my "contacts" is actually a
> group; it does not have the properties of a contact. The companion script,
> "Display Contact's Categories E" works fine but will choke if the group is
> highlighted.
>
Well, yes. I'm not sure I'd cal this a "bug", since you were only supposed
to be selecting contacts, not groups. (Since when does a group have a "job
title" or a "Summary page"?) But the error handling could have been better,
certainly.
It never occurred to me that someone would want to select a group to deal
with its members, but it's a good idea. I thought you'd either want to do
all contacts, and then just new (usually single) contacts as you made them
afterwards. (You've got the titles of the scripts a bit mixed up there, and
the "All" script doesn't require you to select any contacts at all: it just
works on all of them without your having to do anything, and does not choke
on groups because it doesn't handle groups.) I've just added a section to
the "Select" script that works on group members who happen to be bona fide
contacts where they are the only contact with that address, (or if there's
more than one with the same email address - this can happen - then the first
one with the same name as well, but not duplicates). So if you just want to
do this with a group you can. I guess you can avoid applying it to business
contacts with real job titles this way, and just apply to groups of friends,
etc.
Look for Display Contact Categories E 1.1 soon. (I have some other updates,
too, which I'll announce.)
> I used the second script to convert my other records; I was especially
> pleased to note that those records whose category is "none" do not get a
> listing of "none" in the job title field. Very smart.
>
I'm not the one being smart. The list of categories is simply empty {}, so
no category name shows up. It's Entourage that's smart to put "None" in the
category column when it's empty.
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Paul Berkowitz
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