How to tell who sent a calendar event?

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bgracely

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

When I receive events (via email), I can tell who sent them. But after I accept the event and it goes into the calendar, the sender is no longer listed. How do I tell who sent the event from within the calendar? Is there a display variable I need to enable?

Thanks,
BG
 
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harris.a.phiilip

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

When I receive events (via email), I can tell who sent them. But after I accept the event and it goes into the calendar, the sender is no longer listed. How do I tell who sent the event from within the calendar? Is there a display variable I need to enable?

Thanks,
BG
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My guess is, you'll find it's the same or similar problem to the one I
posted (which I guess needs to be now a request to MS) around other
people accepting meetings on your behalf which then leaves you with no
ability to cancel/reschedule the meeting or see who's on the attendee
list as the scheduling tab goes away.

I now we should post feedback to MS, but given these are such basic
functions and have always been in Outlook, it seem a bit like asking
them to make sure the next version of Entourage supports Exchange, in
case they forget......
 
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William Smith

When I receive events (via email), I can tell who sent them. But
after I accept the event and it goes into the calendar, the sender is
no longer listed. How do I tell who sent the event from within the
calendar? Is there a display variable I need to enable?
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Not that I agree with the method nor understand it, but the meeting
organizer should be listed at the top of the notes/body section when you
open the event. You'll see something like:

From: [email protected]

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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William Smith [MVP]

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Barry Wainwright

Isabelle said:
Hi-

How do you grab that From: [email protected] in an AppleScript?
I'm writing a Reply to All to an event, but I can't get the sender.

Thanks

Isabelle
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well, that is a strange omission.

There is no 'from' property for an event, and even though the sender is
displayed in the notes field in the GUI, it is not accessible by script!

I looks like there is no way of getting the sender by script. :(
 
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Barry Wainwright

Barry said:
well, that is a strange omission.

There is no 'from' property for an event, and even though the sender is
displayed in the notes field in the GUI, it is not accessible by script!

I looks like there is no way of getting the sender by script. :(
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there is a way - you can parse the 'ical data' of an event:

set eventData to iCal data of theEvent
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"ORGANIZER:MAILTO:"}
set TheSender to first paragraph of text item 2 of eventData
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims


I haven't checked this out very far - events originating in Entourage
use the "ORGANIZER:MAILTO:" tag, other systems may have a slight
variation (and TIDs are case sensitive!).

It may get you started...
 
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Isabelle M.

Hi Barry-

Thanks! It works great.
I'll check and see if the same trick can be used to specify optional and
required attendees when generating an invit.

Bill-
I should have mentioned I'm using Entourage 2004. It's good to know that
2008 has resolved the issue.

Isabelle
 
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Barry Wainwright

Isabelle said:
Hi Barry-

Thanks! It works great.
I'll check and see if the same trick can be used to specify optional and
required attendees when generating an invit.

Bill-
I should have mentioned I'm using Entourage 2004. It's good to know that
2008 has resolved the issue.

Isabelle
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I think you misunderstood - the problem is still there in 2008.

i think Bill was describing how to find the sender in the GUI, of a
received event, not the event in the calendar via applescript.
 
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William Smith [MVP]

Barry said:
i think Bill was describing how to find the sender in the GUI, of a
received event, not the event in the calendar via applescript.
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My first impression was that the OP was using AppleScript as a
workaround for not being able to include the meeting organizer in the reply.

If this is indeed a question about how to access the organizer via
AppleScript then my answer doesn't apply. Still, this is a very
interesting discovery!

--

bill

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