[rllewis@mac.com]

Thanks for letting me know how to assign a project in iCal. That is very helpful. Is there a way to tell OF to automatically sync with iCal, or can it only be done manually?

[rllewis@mac.com]

does this happen to you? I create a todo in iCal. I then sync it to OF. Then the todo in iCal goes away until I sync from OF again.

[MacBerry]

Originally Posted by rllewis@mac.com

Thanks for letting me know how to assign a project in iCal. That is very helpful. Is there a way to tell OF to automatically sync with iCal, or can it only be done manually?

Manually only I'm afraid, but I'm going to have a go at writing a script that can run on a schedule to do it. Don't hold your breath though as I've never written a script in my life before! Doing an online course right now!

[MacBerry]

Originally Posted by rllewis@mac.com

does this happen to you? I create a todo in iCal. I then sync it to OF. Then the todo in iCal goes away until I sync from OF again.

Hmm no, I've never seen that, though I have seen some other odd things from time to time. I'd check your settings for showing todos in iCal, though I don't know why anything should change just because you synced it.

[MacBerry]

Originally Posted by rllewis@mac.com

Thanks for letting me know how to assign a project in iCal. That is very helpful.

No problem. I don't know if it'll work to create a new project, or if it only works if the project already exists in OF. If you get a chance to try, let me know the outcome please.

[Lizard]

Originally Posted by MacBerry

Manually only I'm afraid, but I'm going to have a go at writing a script that can run on a schedule to do it. Don't hold your breath though as I've never written a script in my life before! Doing an online course right now!

The script would be

tell application "OmniFocus"
     ical_synchronize
end tell

except there's a bug right now which causes this to call the main synchronize instead. :(

Once we fix that bug, you could maybe use the iCal alarm trick here or something similar to handle the scheduling aspect.

[rllewis@mac.com]

please let us know when the bug is fixed. Thanks.

[rllewis@mac.com]

I tried this script, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all.

[Lizard]

Oh right. You have to tell it what document to sync:

tell front document of application "OmniFocus"
	ical_synchronize
end tell

[rllewis@mac.com]

apple script editor changes "ical_synchronize" to "synchronize." is that the bug you were talking about?