Forcing Dates

I'm after an applescript that will allow me to force dates that fall on a weekend back to a weekday. For example we have a recurring event that happens on the 7th of every month, however if the 7th falls on a Saturday we need to force it to the previous Friday, and if the 7th falls on a Sunday we need to move it forward to the next Monday.
Does anyone know how to do this or even if it is possible? We're using iCal 1.5.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.9.

If you prefer the short answer: No. The longer answer is a good bit longer but gets you no further.
It SHOULD be possible, but I don't think it is.
Applescript won't do it for you. You may not be aware that setting up a recurring event puts only a single event in your calendar file. Every time iCal displays a window with a time frame it calculates which recurring events should be displayed, and displays them. If you modify one of the recurrences iCal makes a copy of the event with the changes and saves it as a detached recurrence. Applescript doesn't know how to make a detached recurrence. Indeed, Applescript has to start with the first occurrence and work forward, parsing the recurrence details, to find whether there is a recurrence in the current time frame. It can be done in simple cases. This is not a simple case.
iCal's interface for setting recurrences does not allow you to set all the possibilities that it can handle. For example, you can't set a recurrence on the last day of the month, but if you have one, iCal will properly display it. The easiest way of "fooling" iCal for such things is to make a close approximation to what you want, drag it to the desktop, delete it in iCal, edit the desktop copy with TextEdit (or similar) to get the correct RRULE (recurrence rule) then drop the edited file back on to iCal.
I think (and here I would welcome correction from an expert!) that editing the rule to
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,TH,FR;BYMONTHDAY=7,8,6;BYSETPOS=1
should work, if iCal was fully compliant with the calendar specification - but there are certainly instances where iCal is not fully compliant, and either this is one of them, or I am not correctly interpreting the standard - or both!
AK

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Ryder435 wrote:
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> I am trying to build a form that forces data entry
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