Re: Project Center: looking for a how to

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Project Center: looking for a how to

On or near 7/1/04 7:12 AM, tuqqer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Also, I'm wondering what to do with emails that come into ones Inbox that need
> to be associated with a Project. I read them, realize that they need to be
> associated with an existing Project, and then right click and get it assigned
> to that Project. But then what does one do with that email? I don't think the
> Project Center makes a copy of the email, and places it in a folder somewhere.
> So, currently, I'm thinking that the best way is to create a folder, called
> Projects, and the subfolders for each Project, and then manually drag each
> email into its assigned Project folder.

When you set up a project, you have the opportunity to create an associated mail folder. Usually it gets created at the top level, although I think your idea of a Projects folder with subfolders is a good one.

You could use a script to both assign a message to a project and move it to the project folder:

property yourproject : "Put name of your project here"

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
   
    -- get the currently selected message or messages
   set selectedMessages to current messages
  
    -- if there are no messages selected, warn the user and then quit
   if selectedMessages is {} then
       display dialog "Please select a message first and then run this script." with icon 1
        return
   end if
  
    repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
       -- get the project list from the message, add "YourProject" to it
       set theProject to project list of theMessage
       if {project yourproject} is not in theProject then
           copy project yourproject to end of theProject
           set project list of theMessage to theProject
       end if
       set storage of theMessage to folder yourproject of folder "Projects"
    end repeat
end tell