From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Import outlook appointments meetings into Org Mode ... coming soon, but need help. Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:18:38 +0200 Message-ID: <78DD57CF-30CB-42E1-923A-A9B0CF33A69B@gmail.com> References: <7EA78739DB6FF044926304E83668BF821822CF52@brewer.cmass.criticalmass.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrpTP-0005MT-GV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:18:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrpTL-0005MB-2u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:18:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50371 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrpTK-0005M0-NG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:18:54 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f166.google.com ([209.85.220.166]:61636) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrpTJ-0001pB-QB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:18:54 -0400 Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so505731fxm.42 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:18:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7EA78739DB6FF044926304E83668BF821822CF52@brewer.cmass.criticalmass.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org 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.... :-)