Question

I have iCal events scheduled for various clients over a 6 week period based on a certain start date. ie Client 1,2 and 3 start on the next Monday and I have several iCal events set over a 6 week period that will trigger other different AppleScripts etc. (That works fine, but…)

If Client 2 decides to go on the program 1 week later than 1 and 3 and I have already scheduled his events, how do I select the already created events in iCal for Client 2 and move them all up by one week?

Here’s what I’ve got thus far:

tell application "Calendar"
tell calendar "ExampleCalendar"
set theEventList to every event whose summary contains "Client2"
end tell
end tell

This will select the events, now how do I move them all up one week (they all have different start dates obviously and are unequally spaced apart)

This would make my life much easier! Thank you.

Answer 1

Update:

Yosemite users can now reference selected Calendar events in AppleScript

Try:

set daysAdded to 7

tell application "iCal"
    tell calendar "ExampleCalendar"
        set theEventList to every event whose summary contains "Client2"
        repeat with anEvent in theEventList
            tell anEvent
                set it's end date to (it's end date) + daysAdded * days
                set it's start date to (it's start date) + daysAdded * days
            end tell
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

Here is an alternate method.

        tell anEvent
            set {sDate, eDate} to {(it's start date), (it's end date)}
            set it's start date to sDate + daysAdded * days
            set it's end date to eDate + daysAdded * days
        end tell