Paul, when will your book on "AppleScript for Entourage" be published?
You've written most of it already, on line; it should only take another week
or two to polish it up! ;-)
on 10/23/2000 9:40 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 10/23/00 8:50 AM, "Joe Gillespie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I haven't been able to figure out how to identify categories with
>> AppleScript. 'Category' is a property of 'message' but any attempt to
>> address this property fails - probably because I've got the syntax wrong.
>
>
> 'category' is a list of the categories of that messages, identified by its
> ID. I'm not absolutely certain that the message already has been assigned
> its categories at this point (haven't checked yet) but, if it has, what you
> probably want (running from a Rule on incoming messages) is:
>
> set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
> try
> set theNames to name of category of theMsg -- gets all of them as list
> on error -- if there aren't any, can't get name
> set theNames to {"None"}
> end try
>
>
>
> or just 'end try' without the "None" if you don't care.
>
> To set the categories, just do this:
>
> set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
> set category of theMsg to {category "Friends", category "Work"}
>
> The one you put first will be the primary category, setting the color. Even
> if there's only one, you still have to make it a list:
>
> set category of theMsg to {category "Work"}
>
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