I¹m curious what suggestions people might have to optimize an instance of
delegated calendar management that my company employs.

Our CEO uses Entourage 2008 on 10.4.11, connected to an Exchange 2003 SP2
server.  His assistant uses Entourage 2008 on 10.5.4, also connected to the
same Exchange 2003 SP2 server.  The CEO¹s calendar is shared such that his
assistant is also an ŒOwner¹.

In an effort to minimize the number of accept/decline/undecided
notifications the CEO sees in his Inbox, his assistant uses the following
somewhat cumbersome method to schedule events for him...

> 1. Meeting proposer sends invitation to CEO¹s assistant and all other
> invitees.  This invitation contains all the necessary information about the
> event ­ location, notes, other invitees, etc.
> 2. The assistant checks the CEO¹s calendar and accepts the event into her
> calendar based on the CEO¹s availability.
> 3. The assistant then manually duplicates the event into the CEO¹s calendar,
> transposing location, notes, etc. via copy & paste.

I¹m not very thrilled with this workflow, nor is the assistant.  Her own
calendar is completely muddled with all of the CEO¹s events.  And she has to
go through a fairly tedious copy & paste method to add the event to the
CEO¹s calendar.

I wonder if anyone can think of a better way to do this within the confines
of the functionality Entourage 08 offers.

I also wonder if the AppleScript ŒCreate Event from Message¹ might be
modifiable to work like ŒCreate Event from Event Between 2 Calendars¹.  I¹ll
have to crack open the script and see.

Thanks.

Paul Teeter

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