Birthday import from entourage address book to Entourage calendar

[Maccle]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Email Client: pop

Hello everybody!

I've got a question concerning calendar in Entourage.

I added the date of birth to my contacts in iCal before I imported them to the Entourage address book.
How do I manage to get all these birthdays from Entourage address book to Entourage calendar at once?!?

Any ideas?!

Thanks a lot, bye, Maccle

 

[Maccle]

Okay, this way is quite circumstantial but better than typing it totally new....

TANKS a lot

 

[IJH]

Hi
I just got my first Mac so totally new to the whole apple experience. I am well versed with all the version of windows from 3.1 to vista.

Is there an import for uk public hoildays etc, i know i had to do this previously in outlook.

cant get outlook export of calender into entourage either

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Hi
I just got my first Mac so totally new to the whole apple experience. I am
well versed with all the version of windows from 3.1 to vista.

Is there an import for uk public hoildays etc, i know i had to do this
previously in outlook.

cant get outlook export of calender into entourage either

(please start a new subject thread for new questions)

select 'import' under the file menu and one of the options offered is
'holidays'. Select that and then you can choose which holidays you want to
import.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

there's no all-in-one-go solution. There may be an AppleScript solution, but
I haven't heard of any.

here's one (watch out for line-wraps on the recurrence string):

-- Add All Birthdays to Calendar v1.0 (2008-03-20)
-- an applescript by Barry Wainwright <mailto:[email protected]>
-- Adds a yearly recurring event for all contacts with a birthday defined
-- This script released under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial,
-- ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
-- see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/>
-- for full details

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theContacts to every contact whose birthday ‚ ""
repeat with acontact in theContacts
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
tell acontact
set theName to {first name, last name}
set theDate to birthday
tell me to set theDate to date theDate
make new event with properties {subject:"Birthday - " & theName, ¬
start time:theDate, end time:theDate, recurring:true, ¬
recurrence:"FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTHDAY=19;BYMONTH=3;WKST=SU", ¬
all day event:true}
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end repeat
end tell