Re: Birthday field on contacts and Palm Sync

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Birthday field on contacts and Palm Sync

On or near 7/16/02 8:02 AM, Jan Martel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> I wonder if you could do this by copying the birthday data into one of othe
> custom fields in Entourage (easiest if it was 1-4 which sync directly to the
> Palm)? This would mean adding a step when you entered a contact (or perhaps
> an Applescript could do it automatically?) and of course it would be a pain
> for all your existing contacts, although I *think* you could use Paul's
> Import-Export script to export the contacts and then import the birthday to
> a different field, not sure.

This is the way I'd do it. I use a similar product on my Visor, "Happy Days."

This script will find all contacts with birthdays in 19xx and set the "Custom 3" field to that date as a string, e.g., 12/15/88. To use a different custom field, change "three" to the appropriate number. I use custom field four in Palm as my birthday field.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    set bdays to every contact whose birthday contains "19"
    repeat with c in bdays
        set d to birthday of c
        tell me to set d to date (get text 6 thru -1 of d)
        set d to my datestring(d)
        set custom field three of c to d
    end repeat
end tell
on datestring(theDate)
    (offset of (text 1 thru 3 of (theDate's month as string)) in "  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec") div 3
    text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & result) & "/" & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & theDate's day) & "/" & text -2 thru -1 of (theDate's year as string)
end datestring

 
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