Create Flag for Follow Up from Create New Message Window

I want to flag certain emails for follow up with reminders.

So far, the only way I've been able to flag an email for follow up at a
future date and create a reminder is:

1. Create the email.
2. Send the email.
3. Open Sent email folder.
4. Select message
5. Flag for follow up.

I would prefer to flag the email for follow up in step 1 if there is a way
or a script to do this.

Thanks,

Scott C.

Barry
Sun May 15 08:30:57 CDT 2005

On 15/5/05 2:04 pm, in article BEACC111.7A98%scott@cardais.com, "Scott
Cardais" <scott@cardais.com> wrote:

> I want to flag certain emails for follow up with reminders.
>
> So far, the only way I've been able to flag an email for follow up at a
> future date and create a reminder is:
>
> 1. Create the email.
> 2. Send the email.
> 3. Open Sent email folder.
> 4. Select message
> 5. Flag for follow up.
>
> I would prefer to flag the email for follow up in step 1 if there is a way
> or a script to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott C.
>


This script will flag the message of the frontmost window:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
save window 1
set theMessage to displayed message of window 1
set flagged of theMessage to true
end tell

Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ?Entourage Script Menu
Items¹ folder in your ?Microsoft User Data¹ folder. The script can be
manually run from the menu or called with a keyboard command if you name the
script appropriately.



--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>

Scott
Sun May 15 12:23:34 CDT 2005

On 5/15/05 9:30 AM, in article BEAD0DA1.55F70%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
Wainwright" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:

> On 15/5/05 2:04 pm, in article BEACC111.7A98%scott@cardais.com, "Scott
> Cardais" <scott@cardais.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to flag certain emails for follow up with reminders.
>>
>> So far, the only way I've been able to flag an email for follow up at a
>> future date and create a reminder is:
>>
>> 1. Create the email.
>> 2. Send the email.
>> 3. Open Sent email folder.
>> 4. Select message
>> 5. Flag for follow up.
>>
>> I would prefer to flag the email for follow up in step 1 if there is a way
>> or a script to do this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott C.
>>
>
>
> This script will flag the message of the frontmost window:
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> save window 1
> set theMessage to displayed message of window 1
> set flagged of theMessage to true
> end tell
>
> Save the script as a compiled script & put it in the ?Entourage Script Menu
> Items¹ folder in your ?Microsoft User Data¹ folder. The script can be
> manually run from the menu or called with a keyboard command if you name the
> script appropriately.
>
>
Barry:

Not sure if I should be replying to or the newsgroup.

This script is not flagging my email messages. I am using Entourage 2004 if
that makes a difference.

I was able to compile the script and save it as you instructed. The script
appears in my Applescripts menu as Flag Email.

If I run the script when I am composing an email, it saves as draft. When I
send the message, it is not flagged in my Sent Mail folder.

Ideally, I would like to Flag for Follow up (2nd option under FLAG pull down
menu) not just Flag.

Thanks for your help.

Scott