{"id":83,"date":"2010-10-11T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T19:44:09","slug":"qa-is-outlookmac-scriptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/qa-is-outlookmac-scriptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Is Outlook:Mac scriptable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesthomson\/status\/26755630148\">this question on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anybody know if the new\u00a0Outlook\u00a0for\u00a0Mac\u00a0is scriptable? Seems to share same creator code as Entourage, but not same scripting interface&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Outlook has full support for AppleScript. \u00a0AppleScript is an important part of our internal testing for our suite. \u00a0We have always had great AppleScript support across the suite, and we have continually improved it in each version. \u00a0Outlook continues that tradition.<\/p>\n<p>If you have existing Entourage scripts, you&#8217;re going to need to update them. \u00a0Outlook&#8217;s AppleScript dictionary has several differences to improve consistency and scriptability. \u00a0Pretty much anything that you could script in Entourage is also scriptable in Outlook. \u00a0The only places where you won&#8217;t be able to script something in Outlook that you could in Entourage are features not found in Outlook, such as newsgroup support and projects.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of twitter, you can follow me <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nadyne\/\">here<\/a>, and there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/officeformac\/\">@officeformac<\/a> too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this question on Twitter: Anybody know if the new\u00a0Outlook\u00a0for\u00a0Mac\u00a0is scriptable? Seems to share same creator code as Entourage, but not same scripting interface&#8230; Yes, Outlook has full support for AppleScript. \u00a0AppleScript is an important part of our internal testing for our suite. \u00a0We have always had great AppleScript support across the suite, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/qa-is-outlookmac-scriptable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A: Is Outlook:Mac scriptable?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office2011","category-outlookformac","category-qanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}