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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