Rule action to unflag?

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somedumbguy

Hi,

Is there any way to unflag a message as part of a rule in Office v.X?
I've tried telling the rule to set the status of flagged messages to
something else, like 'read,' but the flag remains. There doesn't seem
to be an 'unflagged' option. Any ideas?

John
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Is there any way to unflag a message as part of a rule in Office v.X?
I've tried telling the rule to set the status of flagged messages to
something else, like 'read,' but the flag remains. There doesn't seem
to be an 'unflagged' option. Any ideas?
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You're right: it's a silly lack in the rule actions not to be able to set
status to Unflagged. Set the rule to run a script. I'm assuming you'll be
running this rule manually since I don't think messages can be flagged by
senders. (If I'm wrong this will work anyway,) If 'Status is Flagged' is in
the rule criteria you don't have to search for it again in the rule, Just
this:

tell app "Microsoft Entourage"
set currMsgs to current messages
repeat with i from 1 to (count currMsgs)
set theMsg to item i of my currMsgs
set flagged of theMsg to false
end repeat
end tell

This might work faster from the script menu directly than from a rule. - and
you can call it by keyboard shortcut there. And if you update to Entourage
2004, this version might work much faster again (untested), from the script
menu:


tell app "Microsoft Entourage"
set currMsgs to current messages
set flagged of currMsgs to false
end tell


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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