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Use an unorthodox recurrence pattern to link two related events in Microsoft Entourage

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I am happy about a solution I just came up with to the problem of not being able to define an arbitrary set of dates as the recurrence pattern for an event in Microsoft Entourage 2008.

I wanted to enter an event that was split across two days, and wouldn’t have obviously fit any type of “every Wednesday” or “every second Thursday” pattern. The ideal way to handle this, I think, was available in the Steltor CorporateTime calendar I used to use: create an event and add arbitrary dates to it, so that each recurrence appeared as part of the series. You can’t do that in Entourage — or I’ve never found any trickery to allow it.

Luckily, however, the event’s start time and duration was the same on each of the two days, so I realized I didn’t need to make two different events for it. And, I only had two recurrences to deal with — if there’d been more, it’s unlikely they would have been evenly spaced.

I used my “Compare dates” AppleScript to determine how many days apart the two instances of this particular event were. I came up with 20. I entered that as the number of days between recurrences. I set the recurrence to end on the date after the last event.

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The result? I got two events (and two events only), both on the days I intended, and they were linked as part of a recurrence pattern. Sweet. It’s the little victories, you know?


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