Scripting Entourage

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#1

Hi,

I’m fairly new to Mac’s in general, although I have been programming the the ‘other’ world (OpenVMS mainly and lately Windows (sigh)) for some time.

I am teaching myself AppleScript on my (nice, shinny, terrific new) MacBook Pro in the only way I find meaningful - having something useful to do and then creating the code to do it.

My initial task is to manipulate some messages within entourage (saving the text in them into specifically named files and then moving the original messages to aspecific Entourage folder - but that is beside the point of this message). However I’m not sure how to find out about the (what in ‘windows’ speak I would call the) “Entourage object model”. In other words, what are the objects that I can work with, what are their methods and properties etc.

I’ve looked on the internet and can’t find anything like this.

Does such a manual/document exist? If so, where?

if not, where can I start to find out about such things?

Thanks

Susan

#2

I think we have references for Word, Excel, PP. But not Entourage at this time (I think it existed something for Office 2001?).
Anyway, in despite of such reference, the best option is allways browsing the related app’s dictionary (drop Entourage’s icon onto Script Editor’s one). After that, you can download hundreds of open-source scripts for Entourage at ScriptBuilders. And, of course, you can come back to this forum and ask specific questions.
Scripting Entourage is very easy :wink:

#3

Actually, I’ve come back to answer my own question.

Open Script Editor, and go to the File > Open Dictionary… and the scroll down to the Microsoft Entourage and then click Open. this will open a document (called “Microsoft Entourage.sdef”). This contains (or at least appears to) the required information.

Thanks for the above information - as I said, I’m still on a very steap learning curve about all of the tricks and ways of OS-X.

Susan