This is an interesting question! I believe the abilities you are looking for are things that will eventually find their way into Entourage v X; however, as you no doubt know, there will be no further development of E2001.
>From experimentation, it appears that you may be mistaken that rules cannot assign multiple categories. Simply have multiple "Set category" steps in the rule. And, if you have multiple rules acting on the same message, each rule setting a category, in Entourage v X the categories are additive, not subtractive: the message gets all the categories. Is that not the case in E2001? What I have explicitly asked for is an indication, in error messages generated by scripts triggered by rules, as to what rule, or what script, created the error. I would like to see some better debugging aids for rules and rule scripts. They can get complex! One suggestion (to the developers) is to have a trace log that can be turned on for debugging purposes. Each time a rule fires, it would log itself in the log file, along with the subject and ID of the message it is handling. That way, you could find a message in the log file and trace back to see what rule or rules acted on it. Obviously, you would not want this log once things were running well, so it is imperative that you can turn it off. I think your idea of tracking rules by categories is inspired, and as far as I can see, it should work in EvX. If it does not work in E2001, I'm sorry, but I don't have anything better to offer. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: Gary Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:11:07 -0500 > To: Entourage-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Which Rule? > > I am wondering if any of you have ever felt a need for -- or developed > method of -- determining which rule put a message in its ending location? > > Recently, as I've read suggestions on this list (primarily from Mickey S. > and Allen W.) and other places for developing rules, I've been experimenting > a bit, and find myself occasionally wondering "what rule put this message > here?". > > I'll share my simple method, which seems to be fairly useful for testing, > but may not be the best long term solution. > > What I've done is to create a new category for each rule I want to test, and > then have the rule set the message to that category. It's a bit cumbersome, > but it at least allows some means of testing rules. The limitation here (a > limitation of Entourage?) is that I can't compound categories via rules. If > a message gets several rules applied, and each rule sets a category, the > previous categories set by rules are replaced, not added. > > So, if you've developed any other methods, I'd very much like to hear about > it. (Script running is out, of course, because only one script can run on > via rule...another weak area of E2001, IMHO.) > > Thanks, > > Gary > -- > Do not reply via email. Incoming replies are auto-deleted. > Please post directly to the list or newsgroup. Thank you! > > Really need direct? Rot me at: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lbhe fhowrpg zhfg ortva "abgwhax:" (ab dhbgrf) > Avpr gb zrrg lbh! Qba'g fcnz zr. > > > > > -- > 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/> -- 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/>
