Scripting Invitations

M

Mark Aalyson

It appears that there are no criteria among the standard Entourage rule
dialogs to enable the identification of an incoming POP message as an
invitation to a calendar event. I want to move these invitations
automatically to a folder created for the purpose.

So I thought that I might script such a move. But now I can't find any
attribute in the Entourage dictionary that would allow a message to be
identified as an invitation. Such messages have an identifying icon,
viewable under the "Message Status" column, so the application must be
recognizing them as an invitations.

Can anyone offer a suggestion or a script line that would help me?
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

It appears that there are no criteria among the standard Entourage rule
dialogs to enable the identification of an incoming POP message as an
invitation to a calendar event. I want to move these invitations
automatically to a folder created for the purpose.

So I thought that I might script such a move. But now I can't find any
attribute in the Entourage dictionary that would allow a message to be
identified as an invitation. Such messages have an identifying icon,
viewable under the "Message Status" column, so the application must be
recognizing them as an invitations.
Click to expand...

Invitations are not scriptable. God only knows why not - they've been around
fo0r long enough. PLEASE send a feature request via the Help menu - it's
obviously not doing much good that I have asked for this about 83 times over
the past three years. It has more effect if numerous requests come from the
"general public" like you.
Can anyone offer a suggestion or a script line that would help me?
Click to expand...

I don't think there's any way. The links in the message's Info bar (Accept,
Decline, etc.) are not scriptable even by GUI scripting.

Are Accept/Tentatively Accept/Decline also available in one of the menus?
(Message menu, maybe?) If so, then they can probably by accessed via GUI
scripting.


--
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.
 
M

Mark Aalyson

Well, thanks, Paul. I'll certainly ask for the feature. I should have
mentioned that I'm using v. X. I suppose, from your answer, that the feature
is not yet available in Entourage 2004.

One point: how does Entourage recognize an incoming message as an
invitation? They are given a distinct icon, so there must be some snippet of
coded info somewhere that enables Entourage to identify and handle this type
of message differently than a standard POP incoming message.
 
Top