Script to change Calander Reminder

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drew

I am looking for a script to change the REMINDER on a bunch of Calendar
Events at once. I am able to select a bunch of different dates, but I
can not figure out how to change the 'reminder' on them with out
opening each one separately.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,
Drew
 
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Barry Wainwright

I am looking for a script to change the REMINDER on a bunch of Calendar
Events at once. I am able to select a bunch of different dates, but I
can not figure out how to change the 'reminder' on them with out
opening each one separately.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,
Drew
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Guess what - there's a bug (or, at least, a limitation)

You can set turn the reminder on with applescript, just by assigning a
'remind time':

Set remind time of event id 370 to 10

This will set the remind time to 10 minutes and turn the reminder on, if it
was off.

However, even though 'get remind time of event id 370' will return a value
of 0 if the reminder is off, setting the remind time to 0 by script sets the
time to 0 in the event, but does not turn the reminder off. There is no way
to turn the reminder off by script.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

However, even though 'get remind time of event id 370' will return a value
of 0 if the reminder is off, setting the remind time to 0 by script sets the
time to 0 in the event, but does not turn the reminder off. There is no way
to turn the reminder off by script.
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Well, there is a workaround: you get all the other properties of the event,
then delete the event and create a new one replicating it exactly except you
do not include a 'remind time' property at all.

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

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