Outgoing news rules

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Daiya Mitchell

Can Entourage 2004 run rules on outgoing messages posted to newsgroups?
There's a Paul Berkowitz script to sort outgoing news messages in Entourage
X ( Sent News Items to Folder X (for Entourage X) 1.0 ). Is it supposed to
work in Entourage 2004?

(panther 10.3.5)

Thanks for pointers/suggestions/workarounds
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Can Entourage 2004 run rules on outgoing messages posted to newsgroups?
There's a Paul Berkowitz script to sort outgoing news messages in Entourage
X ( Sent News Items to Folder X (for Entourage X) 1.0 ). Is it supposed to
work in Entourage 2004?

(panther 10.3.5)

Thanks for pointers/suggestions/workarounds
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All my Entourage X scripts work in 2004 too.

I use that particular script myself in 2004.

2004 added certain types of AppleScript functionality (mostly to do with
2004-only features such as projects) but didn't take anything away. The only
X scripts that have problems in 2004 are those that specified 'string' as a
class when checking for the type of selection made by the user. In 2004 that
class should now be 'Unicode text', so those older scripts will break. As
far as I recall, I already had string or Unicode class for such tests, since
I knew what was coming. It doesn't apply to this script in any case.

Things are different in Word and Excel where the AppleScript implementation
changed utterly in 2004. Not so in Entourage.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

All my Entourage X scripts work in 2004 too.
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Thanks very much, Paul. It didn't work for me right off the bat, but I will
read the directions more carefully and post back if I still have problems.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Okay. While running the prefs script to set it up, I got the message "the
variable WhichSetUp is not defined." At the point where the script goes to
call up the list of subscribed newsgroups. Running it with the script open,
it's this line:
if whichSetUp = "Separate with Default" then
About 15 lines down in the Handlers section.

I downloaded the script from scriptbuilders.net, it's dated 3/7/02. It works
fine if I set them all to go to the same folder, it just won't let me set up
different folders.

Daiya
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Okay. While running the prefs script to set it up, I got the message "the
variable WhichSetUp is not defined." At the point where the script goes to
call up the list of subscribed newsgroups. Running it with the script open,
it's this line:
if whichSetUp = "Separate with Default" then
About 15 lines down in the Handlers section.

I downloaded the script from scriptbuilders.net, it's dated 3/7/02. It works
fine if I set them all to go to the same folder, it just won't let me set up
different folders.
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That looks like a bug, that would occur in X as well as 2004. It may have
crept in when I did some revision of the script and changed the name of an
option. No one has ever reported it before - so you must the first person
since then to try to set up separate folders! I'll look into it.

When you find script bugs, it's best to report them privately to me at my
email address in the ReadMe, rather than to this public newsgroup. Thanks.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

When you find script bugs, it's best to report them privately to me at my
email address in the ReadMe, rather than to this public newsgroup. Thanks.
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Oops. Actually that particular script is old enough that the email address
on the ReadMe is out of date. I'll fix that too. I've fixed the PREFS script
and will send it to you.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Oops. Actually that particular script is old enough that the email address
on the ReadMe is out of date. I'll fix that too. I've fixed the PREFS script
and will send it to you.
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My apologies. Will remember in the future. Thanks very much,
Daiya
 
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