how to change the due date of an iCal to-do?

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#1

hi all-

i need to have a script that can change the due dates for all the to-do’s of a calendar to Today’s date (bringing old unfinished to-do’s into today). I’ve tried several different methods, all failing. I am able to create a NEW to-do, i just can’t edit the due date property of an existing one. The following code breaks:


tell application "iCal"
	
	set todayDate to (current date) as date
		
	set myCal to (first calendar whose title is "short term to-do")
	set myTodos to properties of todos of myCal

	repeat with myToDo in myTodos
		tell myToDo
			set properties to {due date:todayDate}
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

the following error is generated when this is run:
AppleScript error: Can’t set properties of {«class wrt5»:«constant ****tdp0», «class wrt3»:date “Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:00:00 AM”, «class wr10»:“1800C113-0475-4D9E-B8AB-CC2F83B73E95”, «class wrt1»:missing value, «class wr16»:missing value, «class wr13»:6, class:«class wret», «class wr11»:“yippie”, «class wr4s»:date “Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:19:11 PM”, «class wr12»:missing value} to {«class wrt3»:date “Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:30:51 PM”}.

thanks for any help you may be able to provide…

#2

that’s got it. thanks very much.