Using entourage as timesheet?

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Andy Goldsmith

Is there any way to extract the "duration" of each event in the Calendar?
I'd like to capture the durations and use as a timesheet ... For example,
if I give every billable event a particular kind of name ("Billable: XXXX"),
then I'd like be able to filter for the word Billable, change to List view,
and print the filtered events out as a timesheet. Doing this gives me
almost what I want -- but the events are listed as the hours (9:15 a.m.
- 11:45 a.m.) and not the durations. Has anyone figured out how to
get the durations?

Thanks,

Andy
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Is there any way to extract the "duration" of each event in the Calendar?
I'd like to capture the durations and use as a timesheet ... For example,
if I give every billable event a particular kind of name ("Billable: XXXX"),
then I'd like be able to filter for the word Billable, change to List view,
and print the filtered events out as a timesheet. Doing this gives me
almost what I want -- but the events are listed as the hours (9:15 a.m.
- 11:45 a.m.) and not the durations. Has anyone figured out how to
get the durations?
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Subtract?

You'd need an AppleScript to do this, It could put the Title, Duration, and
anything else you want (category, start time) into a list in a Note, which
you could print out. The script would do the subtraction for you.

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

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Andy Goldsmith

Paul,

(by the way, I'm using Entourage X).

Gotcha, use an Apple Script to do this. I have not really written any
scripts -- would it be easy to pull off?

My question was actually driven by the fact that Entourage X "does the
math" in each Event window -- shows "duration" as # of minutes -- and
seems like there should be a way to just print that information from a
selected group of events. If it could be extracted, no need for the
script to do any calculations ...

- Andy
 
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