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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Arkell <jonathana@criticalmass.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Import outlook appointments meetings into Org Mode ... coming soon, but need help.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:18:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78DD57CF-30CB-42E1-923A-A9B0CF33A69B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7EA78739DB6FF044926304E83668BF821822CF52@brewer.cmass.criticalmass.com>


On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Arkell wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am working on some code to import Outlook appointments into org- 
> mode.  It will use the Wsh Repl (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/WshRepl 
> ) to talk to the Windows Scripting Host to connect to outlook to  
> retrieve the meetings.
>
> So far it is going well, but I have a question:
>
> I plan on storing the outlook meeting entry IDs in the created tasks  
> inside of org, this way I can be sure not to re-create any  
> previously imported meetings.  Is this best stored as a property? Is  
> there already an established ID property I can use?  (FYI, the  
> outlook EntryID is a 140 (!) digit hex number.)

Org handles an ID property which can be an arbitrary string, but it  
must be unique.
So you could directly use these.

- Carsten

P.S. Why they felt compelled to make an ID 140 hex digits is beyond me.
16^140 is  
3773962424821541352241554580988268890916921220416440428376206300245624162392148852086126725177658767541468375030763844899770584629924792632561434251432696043649395326976
which is about 4 times 10^168, which is 100 million times the number  
of particles in the universe squared, so 100 million times the number  
of possible particle-particle pairings across the entire universe.   
Only very blown-up egos will think they'll ever get this many emails  
or tasks.  Even though, I know some who might be thinking just  
that.... :-)

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09  8:18 UTC|newest]

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2009-04-08 16:45 Import outlook appointments meetings into Org Mode ... coming soon, but need help Jonathan Arkell
2009-04-09  8:18 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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