Hi all,
At work we have the typical MS-Exchange setup for mail and agenda. Only
Outlook as a client is a first-class citizen in this setup, but since there
are many non-Outlook users, mail can also be accessed using IMAP, and
appointments are turned into emails with hyperlinks to access them in
Outlook-WebAccess in a web browser.
Personally, I like to use org-mode for my planning, and I needed to manually
make org-TODO's for the corresponding Outlook events. However, attached find
an attempt at automating this. The idea is that it extracts the information
from the Exchange-emails I get and turn that into an org-TODO, using
org-capture. It's quite trivial, but I've found it useful for me - hopefully
it's useful for others as well.
Note, the code makes the assumption there's a line like:
"When: 09 July, 2010 10:00-11:00 (GMT+02:00) Helsinki, ..."
I'm not sure what varieties exist in the wild, I'd be happy to update the
regexps. (Maybe there are translations of 'When'? Or am/pm clocks?)
Anyway, it works like this: you select (mark) the parts of the email you want
to add to your org-todo item, and then invoke:
M-x org-exchange-capture-invitation
after that, 'org-capture' should handle the rest, provided you have something
like
("E" "ExchangeInvite" entry
(file+headline "todo.org" "Invites")
"* TODO %c\n")
in your org-capture-templates (something that has 'E' as the key, and takes a
"%c")
Note, this is in the early at-least-it-works-for-me stages, the elisp is a bit
ugly, it requires org-capture etc.; suggestions/improvements are very welcome;
see the notes in the source file.
Best wishes,
Dirk.
;; org-exchange-capture.el, v0.0.1
;; written by: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <d...@djcbsoftware.nl>
;; License: GPLv3+
(require 'org-capture)
;; turn the e-mails sent MS-Exchange about invitation/appointments into
org-TODOs
;; using 'org-capture'.
;; The idea is that you select (mark) the parts of the email you want to add to
;; your org-todo item, and then invoke M-x djcb-capture-exchange-invite;
;; Some caveats:
;; - obviously, this is just a one-way copy, it won't make you 'accept' an
;; invitation, nor does it get any updates
;; - it seems to work with the emails I get from Exchange (I've encountered two
;; different kinds). But there may be more; at least the ones I get are in
;; English, there are probably other versions as well. I'd be interested in
;; extending the regexps with more cases.
;; - it requires org-capture, which is fairly new; it should be easy to support
;; org-remember as well though. Also, I only tested with Wanderlust as e-mail
;; client; it *should* work with others as well though...
;; Note that that the message buffer must be the active buffer;
;; ie. it won't work in the 'Summary' (Wanderlust)
(defun djcb-exchange-invite-time-to-org-date()
"try to to find the Time/Date from an Exchange-invitation
e-mail in the current buffer, and convert it into an org-mode
date, or `nil' if it's not found."
"get the time/date of an Outlook invite in org-mode notation"
(let ((date) (time-begin) (time-end))
(save-excursion
(save-match-data
(beginning-of-buffer)
(if (re-search-forward
(concat "^When: \\([0-9]+ [a-z]+,? [0-9]\\{4\\}\\) "
"\\([0-9]+:[0-9]+\\)-\\([0-9]+:[0-9]+\\)") nil t 1)
(progn
(setq
date (parse-time-string (match-string-no-properties 1))
time-begin (match-string-no-properties 2)
time-end (match-string-no-properties 3))
(format "<%d-%02d-%02d %s--%s>"
(elt date 5) (elt date 4) (elt date 3)
time-begin time-end))
(message "No match")
nil)))))
(defun djcb-exchange-invite-subject()
"get the subject of an MS-Exchange invite e-mail in the current
buffer"
(save-excursion
(save-match-data
(beginning-of-buffer)
(when (re-search-forward "^Subject: \\(.*\\)" nil t 1)
(match-string-no-properties 1)))))
(defun org-exchange-capture-invitation ()
"capture the MS-Exchange invite e-mail in buffer into an
org-mode agenda item using the org-capture system. For this to
work, you'll need to add to your `org-capture-templates' an item
with a shortcut key of 'E', e.g.
(\"E\" \"ExchangeInvite\" entry
(file+headline \"todo.org\" \"Meetings\")
\"* TODO %c\\n\")
any text you select (mark) in the buffer will be added to to
captured TODO; thus you can add the relevant details to the org TODO item.
"
(interactive)
(let( (time (djcb-exchange-invite-time-to-org-date))
(title (djcb-exchange-invite-subject))
(txt
(if (use-region-p) (buffer-substring-no-properties (region-beginning)
(region-end)) "")))
(when time
(kill-new (concat title " " time "\n\t" txt)) ;; hack: prepend to kill
ring
(org-capture nil "E"))))
(provide 'org-exchange-capture)
--
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland
e:d...@djcbsoftware.nl w:www.djcbsoftware.nl
pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C
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