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* Import outlook appointments meetings into Org Mode ... coming soon, but need help.
@ 2009-04-08 16:45 Jonathan Arkell
  2009-04-09  8:18 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Jonathan Arkell @ 2009-04-08 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.)

Thanks!

Jonathan Arkell
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* Re: Import outlook appointments meetings into Org Mode ... coming soon, but need help.
  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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-04-09  8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jonathan Arkell; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org


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.... :-)

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