Re: How to tell who sent a calendar event?

Hi Barry-

Thanks! It works great. 
I'll check and see if the same trick can be used to specify optional and 
required attendees when generating an invit.

Bill-
I should have mentioned I'm using Entourage 2004. It's good to know that 
2008 has resolved the issue.

Isabelle

"Barry Wainwright" wrote:

> Barry Wainwright wrote:
> > Isabelle M. wrote:
> >> Hi-
> >>
> >> How do you grab that From: john.doe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 in an AppleScript?
> >> I'm writing a Reply to All to an event, but I can't get the sender.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Isabelle
> >>
> >>
> > well, that is a strange omission.
> > 
> > There is no 'from' property for an event, and even though the sender
is 
> > displayed in the notes field in the GUI, it is not accessible by
script!
> > 
> > I looks like there is no way of getting the sender by script. :(
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> there is a way - you can parse the 'ical data' of an event:
> 
> 	set eventData to iCal data of theEvent
> 	set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"ORGANIZER:MAILTO:"}
> 	set TheSender to first paragraph of text item 2 of eventData
> 	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
> 
> 
> I haven't checked this out very far - events originating in Entourage 
> use the "ORGANIZER:MAILTO:" tag, other systems may have a slight 
> variation (and TIDs are case sensitive!).
> 
> It may get you started...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Barry Wainwright
> Microsoft MVP
>