On 1/21/02 5:31 AM, "Richard Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul
>
> I received your email stating that there was no way Entourage could list
> completed items in date order. OK. I have a completed tasks "Custom View"
> for today and yesterday. Easy. If I want to make one for two days ago, is
> there any way for me have a criterion "Date modified" "Is" and then, in date
> window, indicate a negative integer (like two days ago)? Can't figure out
> how to do that.
>
What you asked for was a list of completed tasks in date order OF
COMPLETION. That's what I said you can't do. Nor can you do a custom view of
tasks completed precisely two days ago. I guess Entourage wasn't designed to
be quite this anal. Why don't you make a permanent record of Tasks Completed
Today every day and memorialize it for all time? You would then have a
record just how you want. Although I don't see any way of doing this within
Entourage itself, you could run my script Print Tasks List on a custom
view of Tasks Completed whose Date Modified is Today every night just
before midnight. The Word Document it produces can be saved and/or printed,
and you'd soon have a whole collection of these to gaze at and admire.
Unfortunately, there's no way to set this up at present to run it from a
schedule automatically, because this particular setup would require that you
select all the items of the Custom View before you run the script. I've been
agitating ever since Entourage started to be able to have the 'results' of
custom views available by script, but they're not. In OS 9, or even
Entourage 2001 run in Classic, there's a scripting addition which could do
the selecting. But that doesn't exist (yet) in OS X. I'm sure that within 6
months or so there will be a scripting addition which can do that. I'd then
be happy to show you how to set up a repeating event or task which would
ring some alarms to get you to stop anything you might be doing, a schedule
to run a simple script to open that custom view and select all the items in
it, and another schedule to run a Print Tasks List 1 minute later. For now,
you'll have to do the intermediate step yourself.
First, have your custom view ready: call it Tasks Completed Today. Have the
PREFS script of Print Tasks List set for doing selections rather than
predetermined criteria (I think the basic setup allows selection to override
any other setup). Make a repeating event for every day 11:45 pm or whatever
the latest time you'll be up, or a repeating task if you prefer (one more to
succeed at!), with a reminder. You could also run this script from a
schedule every 1 days a set for about the same time:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
open custom view "Tasks Completed Today"
end tell
as an extra sort of reminder. It will open up on the screen in the front.
You press command-A to select everything in it, and run Print Tasks Lists on
the selection and there you are. Save and print the resulting Word Document.
Do this every day until you die and you'll have quite a collection to
bequeath to your heirs. Long before then we can probably get this automated
for you.
--
Paul Berkowitz
--
To unsubscribe:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
archives:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/>
old-archive:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
