On 10/24/00 8:47 AM, "Matt Ridley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Try running this script:
>
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> set theItem to make new task
> set category of theItem to {category "Work", category "Work"}
> end tell
>
>
> Notice the deliberate error, with duplicate categories. Entourage happily
> assigns the category twice, so that in the Category column of the Task view,
> you see "Work, Work". To get rid of the category, you need to choose Work
> from the Categories popup menu twice.
>
I'm not entirely sure I'd call that a bug. Entourage is just doing what the
scripter is telling it to do. There are many things that OE and Entourage
allow you to do in scripting that you can't do from the UI, for which I've
often been grateful. Here you'd like Entourage to be smarter than the
scripter. But if the scripter is smart enough, he or she can always check
the category list before adding a new category, and not add it if it's there
already, no? And if it's too late and you've already done this with 200
contacts, you could undo it by script too.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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