I have so far used most of my examples from Blank Rebel Productions and their iCal Script Pack. This has been the most helpfully. It has some good examples on how to create Calendars and events.
Beyond that I want to cycle through the events in a calendar and remove any that have certain name. All my efforts have failed.
I have some code that will allow you to cycle through your events, if you don’t have it already. I included an example on how to delete an event.
The script exports the calendar as a tab delimited file. This way, I can email it to myself at work and import it into Outlook. I still have a few additions to make to it.
The code to cycle through the events:
set allCalendars to calendars
repeat with thisCalendar in allCalendars
if title of thisCalendar is selectedCalendar then --repeats until it finds the selected calendar set allEvents to events in thisCalendar
repeat with thisEvent in allEvents – repeats for each event
if summary of thisEvent is equal to “Testing” then delete thisEvent
Of course, you need your end repeats.
I hope this is of assistance.
-- iCal to tab delimited file
-- I am creating this since Microsoft Outlook does not correctly import (it doesn't even try) iCal files like it is suppose to.
-- This is the header to the tab delimited file (tdf).
set TDFHEAD to "Subject Start Date Start Time End Date End Time All day event Reminder on/off Reminder Date Reminder Time Meeting Organizer Required Attendees Optional Attendees Meeting Resources Billing Information Categories Description Location Mileage Priority Private Sensitivity Show time as"
set BEGINNINGDATE to (current date) - 30 * days --set the beginning date here
set ENDDATE to (current date) + 60 * days --set the end date here
set DEFAULTCALENDAR to "Schedule" as string -- set the default calendar name here
set tdfText to TDFHEAD & return -- this variable will have the tdf events concatenated to it, then written to a text file afterwards
-- set tdfText to "" & return -- for testing purposes only
tell application "iCal"
activate -- activates iCal
display dialog "Enter the calendar to export: " default answer DEFAULTCALENDAR buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2 -- prompts user to pick a calendar to export, default set as "Schedule"
copy the result as list to {selectedCalendar, buttonPressed}
set allCalendars to calendars
repeat with thisCalendar in allCalendars
if title of thisCalendar is selectedCalendar then --repeats until it finds the selected calendar
set allEvents to events in thisCalendar
repeat with thisEvent in allEvents -- repeats for each event
set thisDate to start date of thisEvent
set stopDate to end date of thisEvent
if (thisDate is greater than BEGINNINGDATE) and (thisDate is less than ENDDATE) then -- only executes if date is within range
set tdfText to tdfText & summary of thisEvent & tab -- subject
set tdfText to tdfText & my dateString(thisDate) & tab -- start date
set tdfText to tdfText & time string of thisDate & tab -- start time
set tdfText to tdfText & my dateString(end date of thisEvent) & tab -- end date
set tdfText to tdfText & time string of stopDate & tab -- end time
set tdfText to tdfText & my booleanCaps(allday event of thisEvent as string) & tab -- all day event? calls a function to convert to caps
set tdfText to tdfText & "False" & tab & my dateString(thisDate) & tab & time string of thisDate & tab & tab & tab & tab -- for now, not including reminder and attendees
set tdfText to tdfText & tab & tab & tab -- for now, not including Meeting Resources, Billing Information, and Categories
set tdfText to tdfText & description of thisEvent & tab -- description
set tdfText to tdfText & location of thisEvent & tab -- location
set tdfText to tdfText & tab -- not including mileage
set tdfText to tdfText & "Normal False Normal 1" & return -- I don't know what these are for, so I'm just putting whatever for Private Sensitivity and Show Time As
-- display dialog tdfText buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
end if
end repeat
end if
end repeat
-- display dialog selectedCalendar buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
end tell
tell application "Finder" --write to text file
set frontmost to true
set filename to choose file name with prompt "What do you want to call the file? Also, choose location. "
set fileref to open for access filename with write permission
write tdfText to fileref
close access fileref
end tell
on booleanCaps(x)
if x is equal to "true" then
return "True"
else
return "False"
end if
end booleanCaps
on dateString(aDate)
set x to "" as string
set y to month of aDate as string
if y is equal to "January" then set x to x & "1" & "/"
if y is equal to "February" then set x to x & "2" & "/"
if y is equal to "March" then set x to x & "3" & "/"
if y is equal to "April" then set x to x & "4" & "/"
if y is equal to "May" then set x to x & "5" & "/"
if y is equal to "June" then set x to x & "6" & "/"
if y is equal to "July" then set x to x & "7" & "/"
if y is equal to "August" then set x to x & "8" & "/"
if y is equal to "September" then set x to x & "9" & "/"
if y is equal to "October" then set x to x & "10" & "/"
if y is equal to "November" then set x to x & "11" & "/"
if y is equal to "December" then set x to x & "12" & "/"
set x to x & day of aDate & "/" & year of aDate as string
return x
end dateString
I have tried to integrate Danielsan event deletion code into my exisiting script. But it errors out. Maybe someone can suggest where the problem is where it says “–delete events that already exist”
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The other day I was contacted by Pete Boardman who wrote a very nifty iCal script to search events for some string, then gather the start and end times of all the events that match and add them together. He uses iCal to track projects he’s working on and can use the script to determine how much time he’s worked on a particular project. I augmented the script a bit (see below). Pete’s weblog can be found here:
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However the event window shows me this:
tell application "iCal"
count every calendar
3
count item 1 of every calendar
1
get summary of item 1 of item 1 of every calendar
"iCal got an error: NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError"
