Title: Re: And how to search in a mailing group??
On or near 5/4/02 3:07 AM, disciple1 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Is it possible at all to search through a mailing group? I always have to
> scroll through every single name and if I select one and hit a letter,
> thinking it will make me browse to that letter in the list, I just doesen't
> work. Can this be improved?
I guess the question is: Why are you searching through a group at all?
What are you trying to accomplish? If you are trying to determine whether or not a person is already in a group, to avoid duplicates, you can do that with a script more easily. For instance, assume "anEmail" contains the address of the person being added, and "theGroup" contains the name of the group:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
display dialog "E-mail address to add to group?" default answer ""
set anEmail to text returned of result
display dialog "Add to what group (name)?" default answer ""
set theGroup to text returned of result
if (count of group entries of group theGroup) � 0 then
set theMembers to group entries of group theGroup
else
set theMembers to {}
end if
set theList to {}
repeat with aMember in theMembers
set theList to theList & address of content of aMember
end repeat
if anEmail is not in theList then
make new group entry of group theGroup with properties {content:anEmail}
display dialog anEmail & " has been added to " & theGroup
else
display dialog anEmail & " is already a member."
end if
end tell
I've kept that simple; it could be enhanced to display a list of existing groups, create a new one if desired, and even to glean the addresses from messages...
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- And how to search in a mailing group?? disciple1
- Allen Watson
