How to automatically convert to-do items into events

Question

Hi, I have a calendar which contains many to-do items with dates. I would like to have these to do items become events. Is there anyway to have ical automatically convert these to-do items into events using a script or plug-in?
thank you for your help and consideration.
deborah

Answer 1

Deborah
Try this. I suggest you save it in ~/Library/Scripts, so that it will be accessible from the drop-down scripts menu. I also suggest that you try it before using it seriously - in iCal, use File/Backup database, then if you don't like what happens, use File/Revert. Feel free to ask questions!
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "iCal"
set CalList to name of every calendar
repeat with ThisCal in CalList
set SomeTasks to todos of calendar ThisCal
set SomeTasks to reverse of SomeTasks --otherwise delete causes problems
repeat with ThisTask in SomeTasks
try
set DoItOn to (due date of ThisTask) + 3 * days --fails if no date
tell calendar ThisCal
set ThisEvent to make new event at end of events
set summary of ThisEvent to summary of ThisTask
set start date of ThisEvent to due date of ThisTask
if (count of (description of ThisTask)) is not 0 then set description of ThisEvent to description of ThisTask
if (count of (url of ThisTask)) is not 0 then set url of ThisEvent to (url of ThisTask) as text
delete ThisTask
end tell
end try
end repeat --ThisTask in SomeTasks
end repeat --ThisCal in CalList
end tell</pre>