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A growing collection of AppleScripts
See the Resources section on the AppleScript tips page if you're not sure what AppleScript is.
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A growing collection of AppleScripts
See the Resources section on the AppleScript tips page if you're not sure what AppleScript is.
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There are many scripts here, loosely organized into categories. All scripts are encoded for downloading as StuffIt 5.x archives, further encoded as Binhex. StuffIt Expander (freeware) will be able to decode them. Click on the name of a script to download it. |
Microsoft Entourage 2001 scripts
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Installing Entourage
scripts
To install scripts for use in Entourage, put them in the Entourage Script Menu Items folder, within the Microsoft User Data folder, which is within your Documents folder at the root of your hard disk. This is shown in the graphic to the right. |
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Adding keyboard shortcuts
to Entourage scripts
You can add your own keyboard shortcuts to your scripts in Entourage, just by adding a suffix to the filename of the scripts. The suffix always starts with a backslash (\). Then, you have one or more of the lowercase letters m, o, c, and s, which correspond to the modifier keys as follows: m is the Command/Apple
key ( o is the Option/Alt
key ( c is the Control/Ctrl
key ( s is the Shift key (
Lastly, you have an uppercase letter which will be the shortcut key. So, for example, if I have a script called "My Script", and I change its filename to "My Script\coM", its keyboard shortcut will be Control-Option-M. This is shown in the graphics to the right. Note: this also
works in Outlook Express 5 Mac. |
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| Using Location Manager with
Entourage
Go here for our tutorial on using Location Manager with Entourage and OE5, with a bit of help from AppleScript. Note: this also
applies to Outlook Express 5 Mac. |
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Displays a list of your events to choose from, and duplicates whatever event you selected. You can edit the four properties at the top of this script to customize how it works:
Carries over tasks which are uncompleted and overdue. Because Entourage doesn't currently let you set due dates for Tasks via AppleScript, the script doesn't set new due dates. It does however open the Tasks and ask you to manually set the new due dates. Once Entourage is (hopefully) updated to allow setting due dates via AppleScript, this script will work as intended without any modifications.
Dials the phone number of the selected contact. If the contact has more than one number, it asks you to select the one you want to dial. Note that this script uses and requires the shareware ($15) application Acid Jazz, available from here. Makes a new message and attaches a chosen VCF (contact) file to it. Attaches a chosen VCF (contact) file to the current message. Exports all your Signatures (both name and content) to a text file. Moves all selected messages
(or the currently open message) to the Deleted Items folder. Moves all selected unflagged messages to the Deleted Items folder. Permanently deletes all selected unflagged messages (gives a warning first). Deletes all messages in the thread of the currently selected message. This function is now natively possible in Entourage (it wasn't in OE5), but I've left this script up here for others to learn from. Sort of like a "wizard" for configuring location-sensitive checking and sending of email; lets you set up multiple actions for each account in each Location Manager location. Toggles the flag status of the currently selected messages. Launches Internet Explorer and goes to versiontracker.com. Not really an Entourage script, but useful for launching the browser without having to click a link first.
Makes a new message from an account other than your default account. Replaces the selected URL (in a message) with the HTML to make a link to that URL.
Searches the Inbox messages (subject and body) for the specified phrase, then makes a Microsoft Word file containing the matching messages.
Same as above, but makes a plain text file (SimpleText). |
| Adding keyboard shortcuts
to Outlook Express 5 scripts
You can add your own keyboard shortcuts to your scripts in OE5. See the Microsoft Entourage scripts section above for details. |
| Using Location Manager with
Outlook Express 5
Go here for our tutorial on using Location Manager with Entourage and OE5, with a bit of help from AppleScript. |
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Moves all selected unflagged messages to the Deleted Items folder. Permanently deletes all selected unflagged messages (gives a warning first). Deletes all messages in the thread of the currently selected message. Sort of like a "wizard" for configuring location-sensitive checking and sending of email; lets you set up multiple actions for each account in each Location Manager location. Toggles the flag status of the currently selected messages. Launches Internet Explorer and goes to versiontracker.com. Makes a new message from an account other than your default account. Replaces the selected URL (in a message) with the HTML to make a link to that URL.
Searches the Inbox messages (subject and body) for the specified phrase, then makes a Microsoft Word file containing the matching messages.
Same as above, but makes a plain text file (SimpleText).
A better version of the "What date is it?" script included with Speakable Items. This version speaks the full date properly ("Tuesday the ninth of May, two-thousand"), whereas the script included with Speakable Items just says "Tuesday May nine".
Shows a dialog with the name of your current TCP/IP configuration and your current IP address.
Shows a dialog with the name of the current Location Manager location. Changes the Location Manager location to one you specify.
Folder
Actions scripts (require Mac OS 8.5 or later) Trashes files whose names begin with "Old " when the attached folder is opened. As above, but also empties the trash afterwards. Opens a given file when the attached folder is opened.
Appearance
scripts (require Mac OS 8.5 or later) Enables having both scrollbar arrows at both sides of scrollbars. Only possible via AppleScript! Lets you choose one of the three scrollbar arrow styles.
Drop files onto this script to make sure they open in the appropriate default OS X application when double-clicked. For example, if your default JPEG viewing application in OS X is Preview, but your JPEGs open in GraphicConverter when you double-click them, just drop them onto this script to solve the problem.
Two scripts, showing how to load one script into another, and call subroutines from other scripts. Assumes that the clipboard text is a file-path, and launches that file.
Launches an application by its creator-code, avoiding having to locate it first. |
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You can find a page of AppleScript tips, links and other info here. We've created a tool to aid debugging your AppleScripts. It's called AppleScript Output, and it's here. You can find an extensive tutorial on using Location Manager with Microsoft Outlook Express 5 (or Entourage 2001) via AppleScript here. We've also created two plug-in tools for FaceSpan users; feel free to download and use them: Finally, the first version of our application PageThing was written in AppleScript. You can still find that version here (also available in French; see that page for details). The newest version is a full compiled application, and is available here. If you need custom AppleScript development work, please see our Services page. |
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