On 12/16/01 2:45 PM, I wrote: >> Knowing my own air-headedness, I'm sure that I will forget to give things >> the "Sync" category, or will just delete them instead of giving them the >> "Sync Delete" category. I may be moved to write a script that finds all >> items modified since Date X and insures that "sync" is appended to the >> subject or title. > > You can't do that, Allen, or I would have done it in the first place instead > of inventing this Custom View business. Why do you think I came up with such > an awkward workaround? Only Contact has a 'date modified' property in > applescript. I've asked for a 'date modified' property for all the other > objects several times, but we've not (yet?) got it. It certainly exists in > the application, since Custom Views in Entourage X can find Date Modified of > Tasks and Notes as well as Contacts - but not Calendar Events! (And Palm > can't do any of this.) so you can certainly make your own Custom Views of > separate contacts, tasks and notes by date modified, select these items, and > run the script. All that matters is selection of items - you can run the > script from anywhere. You don't need to modify it at all. It will run on > your selected items however you found them - and it won't error because they > don't have the Sync category - that's OK. (I don't know what you'll do about > events, however.)
You could, I suppose, get a custom view of all future events, and select them all (or omit a few you know you've got already). It doesn't matter if you select any which are already synced; the script is set to replace any event with the same name and start time (so you can update). You won't get duplicates. So - if you always forget to add the Sync category (me too) that might be a way to go , but requires 4 separate script runs, since "Date Modifies" is NOT a criteria for mixed custom views or advanced finds - only for contacts, tasks and notes taken separately. A nuisance. it would be one way to keep the numbers down, however. We certainly need to request "Date Modified" as a criterion for searches on all items and in mixed views in Advanced Find and Custom Views. For deleting, "Sync Delete" is the only method with the script, however. You could just do a big cleanout every so often instead of deleting as you for along. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
