On or near 2/19/01 8:06 PM, Rick Zeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> From AppleScript, what's the proper syntax for changing the label of a
> category of an item. Say I have a mail item with the label of "None" and I
> want to change it to, say, "Friends" which is already defined in the
> Categories listing.
>From an October, 2000 message by Paul Berkowitz:
> Select one or more messages in the message pane or run the script from a
> Rule. This version will add the category you want and make it the prime
> category.
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> set currMsgs to current messages
> repeat withtheMsg in currMsgs
> set theCategories to category of theMsg
> set category of theMsg to {category "NameHere"} & theCategories
> end repeat
> end tell
>
> Just put the real name where you see :NameHere". If you want to replace any
> other category it may have just with the new one, do this:
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> set currMsgs to current messages
> repeat withtheMsg in currMsgs
> set category of theMsg to {category "NameHere"}
> end repeat
> end tell
Thanks to John Carlsen's archive for rapidly finding this for us.
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A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
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