Applescipt to find events in iCal

Question

Hi, I'm new to the world of Applescript! I'm trying to figure out how to find into a specific calendar events that contains certain words. In particular, I don't know how to make a repeat that find certain word in the calendar's events...

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There's a MacTech tutorial here which includes a search example: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.11/ScriptingiCal/index.html

Here's a working example of how you might find calendar events that match a search criterion:

tell application "iCal"
    tell calendar "Domestic"
        set theEventList to every event whose summary contains "Recycling"
    end tell
    set theEvent to first item of theEventList
    return summary of theEvent
end tell

This example works for me. It finds all events in my "Domestic" calendar which contain the term "Recycling" and then returns the summary of the first one in this list.