Re: Notifications

[Allen Watson]

Title: Re: Notifications

I believe there is a script, "Create Task from Message", that comes with Entourage. Look in your scripts menu, or on the MacTopia web site if it isn't already on your system. It creates a task with the message content as a note in the task. It does not flag the message, but it could be easily adapted to do so by adding a single line to set the flagged status, for example:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    
    -- get the currently selected message or messages
    set selectedMessages to current messages
    
    -- if there are no messages selected, warn the user and then quit
    if selectedMessages is {} then
        display dialog "Please select a message first and then run this script." with icon 1
        return
    end if
    
    repeat with theMessage in selectedMessages
        
        -- get the information from the message, and store it in variables
        set theName to subject of theMessage
        set theCategory to category of theMessage
        set thePriority to priority of theMessage
        set thecontent to content of theMessage
        
        -- create a new task with the information from the message
        set newTask to make new task with properties {name:theName, content:thecontent, category:theCategory, priority:thePriority}
        
        -- create a link between the message and the new task
        link theMessage to newTask
        set flagged of theMessage to true
    end repeat
    
    -- if there was only one message selected, then open that new task
    if (count of selectedMessages) = 1 then open newTask
end tell
--
Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers)
Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>



> From: "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:04:41 -0500
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Notifications
>
> Thus spake Paul van den Hooven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 11/27/2002:
>> Whenever I receive an email that needs to be followed up, I flag that email
>> for follow up.  [...] The only thing is that the reminder, when it pops up,
>> only shows the subject-line of the email
>
> What bugs me is how hard it is to get to the email once I've done that. You
> have to click Open Item, then Show Links, then Open. Why can't it show
> "Follow up on message:" then the subject line of the message as a hyperlink
> leading directly to the message? Or am I missing something?
>
>
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