Title: Setting a default project in the creation of new task/event/note/contact
I use the project sharing feature of Entourage extensively to keep my tasks/events/notes/contacts in sync across three different Macs. Aside from the fact that categories are not sync’ed for any items in the shared project, this mechanism seems to work quite well, and as such I always make a project assignment for each new record I create in Entourage.
In order to make my own hotkeys for creating a new item (task/note/event/contact), I’ve created simple scripts for each and ideally would like to set the project field to my shared project name each time I invoke one of these scripts.
I’ve scoured the geek boards and cannot find any thread discussing this subject. My sample script below compiles and runs, yet the project assignment of the new item (a task, in this case) still remains assigned to ‘None’ (the default for a new item) rather than the desired ‘SharedProjectName’. Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Clark
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property MyProject : "SharedProjectName"
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set newTask to make new task with properties {project:MyProject}
open newTask
end tell
