I’ve been meaning to take a look at the issue in your original mail. I’ll do so later today.
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Kris
From: "Nick Beadman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:13:55 -0800
To: "Entourage Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm Sync - Duplicate Categories
OK, so no-one answered so I had a flash of insight and noticed that all of
the duplicate categories are created black (i.e. their color is {0,0,0}).
So I wrote an AppleScript to delete any categories that have a pure black
color. Of course this is really dangerous as you might have a category whose
color is black. To counter this I wrote another script that sets all black
categories to {1,1,1} which isn't black but is so close you can't visually
tell the difference. After this is done only categories created by the Palm
conduit will be deleted (as they are really black).
Here are the scripts but beware these could have serious side effects:
To make all existing categories off-black (run once when you are happy with
you category list):
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theCategories to every category
repeat with aCategory in theCategories
set categoryColor to color of aCategory
if (item 1 of categoryColor is 0) and (item 2 of categoryColor is 0)
and (item 3 of categoryColor is 0) then
set color of aCategory to {1, 1, 1}
end if
end repeat
end tell
Then whenever you finish a sync run the following:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theCategories to every category
repeat with aCategory in theCategories
set categoryColor to color of aCategory
if (item 1 of categoryColor is 0) and (item 2 of categoryColor is 0)
and (item 3 of categoryColor is 0) then
delete aCategory
end if
end repeat
end tell
Of course what would be really cool is if the tasks/notes/addresses created
on the Palm (which would have the black category that gets deleted)
automatically were assigned the correct category. However, I can't seem to
get the following to work:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theCategories to every category
repeat with aCategory in theCategories
set categoryColor to color of aCategory
if (item 1 of categoryColor is 0) and (item 2 of categoryColor is 0)
and (item 3 of categoryColor is 0) then
set taskList to (every task whose category contains aCategory)
end if
end repeat
end tell
Without the whose clause working iterating over all the tasks/contacts/notes
would take an enormous amount of time.
Hope this helps someone,
Nick
On 10/11/00 4:32 pm, Nick Beadman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered this list today and don't seem to be able to find a FAQ or
> archive anywhere so I will ask the question and hopefully no-one will mind.
> I have been following the MacFixIt forums pretty religiously as well as this
> problem is really beginning to bug me.
>
> I am seeing a consistent problem with duplicate categories. I have the
> following categories in Entourage:
>
> € Junk €
> € Local €
> € Mailing List €
> Business
> Family
> Financial
> Healthcare
> Household
> Immigration
> Personal
>
> The categories which start and end with € are not synced to the Palm
> (wouldn't it be nice if Entourage could enforce this ?).
>
> On my Palm I have the following categories in the Address List:
>
> Business
> Family
> Financial
> Healthcare
> Household
> Immigration
> Personal
>
> and these in the To Do List:
>
> Business
> Household
> Personal
>
> and these in the Memo Pad:
>
> Business
> Personal
>
> After each HotSync I end up with 4 x Business, 2 x Family, 2 x Financial, 2
> x Healthcare, 3 x Household, 2 x Immigration, 4 x Personal. With each
> HotSync the number of categories increases at the same rate. If you think
> about it a category is being created in Entourage for each category in each
> application on the Palm. None of the existing categories are being used.
>
> Also, when I create something in Entourage it goes into the correct category
> on the Palm but if I create something on the Palm it ends up in one of the
> newly created categories.
>
> Is this a bug ?
>
> Nick
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