iCal delete event if exists

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#1

Hello all,

I have been struggling with this for a while now and would appreciate some help!

I have an iCal calendar which I populate via an applescript from email messages. This works fine, but when an event is updated, I would like my script to delete any existing events of the same summary.


tell application "iCal"
	tell calendar "MyCalendar"
		set theEvent to first event whose summary contains "Job: 18031"
		if exists theEvent then
			delete theEvent
		end if
	end tell
end tell

The above script works perfectly if their is an event with “Job: 18031” but if not I get an AppleScript error: The variable theEvent is not defined.

Help, will be much appreciated!

#2

Hi,

if no event is found with the boolean filter, the variable won’t be defined at all.
And if some event is found, it logically exist :wink:
You can delete the first found event easier with

tell application "iCal"
	tell calendar "MyCalendar"
		delete (first event whose summary contains "Job: 18031")
	end tell
end tell

Note: consider, that the order of events is not sorted in any way

#3

StefanK,

Works beautifully, thank you very much!

Ideally it would delete all events. (Which I didn’t state in my original post - sorry!)

Kind regards,

Rich

#4

For all events with the same summary use:

tell application "iCal"
	tell calendar "MyCalendar"
		delete (events whose summary contains "Job: 18031")
	end tell
end tell
#5

Thank you once again StefanK, much appreciated!