On 6/7/2004 1:40 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On a related note, is there a way -- when using custom views or the Find
>> dialog -- to effectively view/find all items that have or don't have a value
>> for a particular field? For example, I was trying to create a custom view
>> for all my IM contacts. The easiest way to do this should be to view "IM
>> Address exists" or "IM Address does not exist." (Forget, for the moment,
>> that "IM Address" isn't a criteria in the Find/Custom Views dialog ;-) ) But
>> that's not an option. Since not every IM address is a full email address, I
>> can't use "IM Address contains @," and the Find/Custom View dialog doesn't
>> support regular expressions (so I can't use "*"). I ended up working around
>> the limitation by manually finding all contacts with an IM Address,
>> assigning them to a new category ("IM"), and then creating a Custom View
>> that shows all contacts of the category "IM." Is there an easier approach?
>
> That sounds like a good approach. You could write a short AppleScript that
> found all the contacts with IM addresses (they _did_ include a new element
> 'instant message address' in the AppleScript - you're welcome) and assigned
> them that category if they didn't already have it. You could use the script to
> update periodically. You'd have to say whether you want "IM" to be the
> priority category or not. I'll assume not, here: if a contact has another
> category, the new IM category will tag along as a secondary one, bit will
> still show up in the custom view you made.
Thanks, Paul! That script will be quite useful.
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