I have a Hazel rule thats watching a folder for any file added today. When it detects a file, it runs the following Applescript:
tell application "Microsoft Outlook" to activate
set recipientName to "Jerry"
set recipientAddress to "email@email.com"
set theSubject to "Kramer's Invoice"
set theContent to "Please find Kramer's invoice attached.
Regards,
Jerry
"
set theAttachment to theFile
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theContent, visible:true}
tell theMessage
make new to recipient with properties {name:recipientName, address:recipientAddress}
make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachment} at after the last character
end tell
end tell
For some reason when this rule is saved, its changing the second instance of tell application "Microsoft Outlook" to tell application "Mail. No matter how many times I try it just keeps changing it. Any thoughts on why and how to fix would
be greatly appreciated. Once thats solved my goal is to introduce a date variable into both the Subject and Content of the email, i.e. Id like the script to auto-detect the current month and populate accordingly so that Kramers Invoice becomes Kramers July Invoice and Please find Kramers invoice attached becomes Please find Kramers July Invoice attached.
Having raised this issue with the Hazel forum, Im told its an Applescript issue specific to Outlook. Ive tested the script outside of Hazel using Apples Script Editor and it returns an error: Expected expression, etc. but found :. Within the script itself, the editor is highlighting the colon after {file name:
Any thoughts on how I can resolve would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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