AppleScript: Print daily iCal agenda

Tried it out and it works like a charm.
the "print" option in iCal gives me the same page, so is the advantae that I can have this spript print the daily list automatically, or am I missing somehting?

I have done similar with a different script I found in one of the Apple tips message boards (then I set an event with an alarm to run it on weekdays.)

I have tried to modify it to do a couple of things, and that's where I'm running into difficulty:

1. I want it to uncheck a calendar (I created one called "invisible" so these events don't show up as part of the day's activities.) -- I can't figure out how to tell Applescript how to go into the subwindow that the list of calendars is in.)

2. I want to make sure it always selects the correct printer, but when I tell it to "click pop up button 1," it selects the print settings pulldown, instead of the printer list pulldown above it. (So right now, I just set the inkjet as the default printer, and it usually goes to the right place.)

It really seems silly that iCal is not recordable ... for novices like me it is a great option, because I can run something just to find out how the API names the buttons/pulldowns/pop ups etc.

Never posted a script so i hope this comes out right. Anyway this would print out the day view as a pdf in the folder ical prints its pdfs and saves its backups.

You could then add a folder action to that specific folder to look for pdf´s created today and add that pdf as an attachment to an outgoing mail to the email address of your choice


set todaysDate to (current date)
set {d, m, y} to {day, month, year} of todaysDate

set yearString to text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (y mod 100))

set monthList to {January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December}
repeat with i from 1 to 12
if m = (item i of monthList) then
set monthString to text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & i)
exit repeat
end if
end repeat

set todaysDate to " - " & d & "/" & monthString & "/" & yearString

tell application "iCal" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iCal"
keystroke "t" using command down
keystroke "p" using command down
delay 3
keystroke return
delay 5
delay 5
click menu button "PDF" of window "Print"
perform action "AXPress" of menu item "Save as PDF…" of menu 1 of menu button "PDF" of window "Print"
delay 2
keystroke "iCal" & todaysDate
keystroke tab
keystroke return
keystroke return
end tell
end tell

@justin - the only problem is that your method does not find recurring events (and I have yet to fond any method that does).

love it!

keep the applescript tips coming!

"You can set this script to run when your Mac starts up" -- you shut down your Mac?

@geddy76 - unfortunately, 10.5's iCal Automator 'Event Summary' action differs significantly from 10.4 Tiger's. And I have not (yet) found an easy way to find recurring events whose recurrence = today.

Still working on it.

Actually, you could take this a step further and create a reoccurring task in iCal that would kick off early in the morning (say 5 or 6 am) and run this applescript - printing your agenda.

Then as you run out the door for the day, you have a printed agenda waiting for you!

Very nice, indeed.

Now let's take it up a notch. Show us how to replace the block with a way to email the day's events to a particular email address.

Thanks!