As you may be aware, I'm in the midst of creating a Word/Entourage query
package. The gist of it is that you can select various properties of a
contact (a property is something like "first name" or "last name") and
specify the search criteria to use for that property, as well as a few other
details. The data will be used to generate a "query document" that can in
turn be used in Entourage (via AppleScript) to create a data merge source
document.
So, two questions:
(1) Right now I'm thinking of only allowing up to six (6) "query options"
based on the properties. (NB: there will be a separate section for selecting
Categories)
(2) There are 58 (!) categories for a contact. With a total disregard for
brevity, they are:
*category
*links
first name
first name furigana
last name
last name furigana
title
suffix
nickname
company
company furigana
job title
department
default email address
description
default postal address
home address
business address
*home web page
*business web page
home phone number
other home phone number
home fax phone number
business phone number
other business phone number
business fax phone number
pager phone number
mobile phone number
main phone number
*assistant phone number
*custom phone number one
*custom phone number two
*custom phone number three
*custom phone number four
custom field one
custom field two
custom field three
custom field four
custom field five
custom field six
custom field seven
custom field eight
age
*astrology sign
*spouse
*spouse furigana
interests
*blood type
children
*custom date field one
*custom date field two
birthday
anniversary
*sync with palm
*Flagged
*Japanese format
*modification date
*last sent date
*last received date
Those prefixed with (*) are the ones I'm thinking of leaving out. "category"
is non-negotiable, because as I noted in (1) there will be a separate
section for categories, so it's not needed here.
Unless I get a flood of people protesting my proposed omissions, these are
what will be left out. You'll be selecting this from a drop-down, aka popup
menu in Mac parlance, so I want to keep the list relatively short. Actually,
there are several more that I, personally, have no use for, but have left
them in because I figure someone probably wants them <g>. Even eliminating
the ones I've marked still leaves something like 37 items in the list (I'd
really like to get it down to about 15 or 20).
So please send me your suggestions about which of these properties you feel
are needed (or not needed) for "querying". Please send replies off-list to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(If you want to know more about what each property means, open Entourage's
Dictionary in the AppleScript Script Editor, then find the 'contact' item
and click on it.)
Thanx,
George
--
George Clark - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To search the archives:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
