ICal scripting an alarm

I have events in a calendar set up to email an alarm for when I need to service certain machines that are under a service agreement. Then the person will log the call using the system number that I have in notes from their email.
I am trying to eliminate the person and have the call automatically logged and print out.
AS can't get anything out from the notes so I thought I would put the system number in the location field so I could get it.
I need to write a script that will be triggered from an iCal alarm and then go and get the system number out of the location field for that event when it comes up.
but I am having trouble trying to get the current event in iCal.
I am not sure if I explained this very well but
I just need a way to get a number from the current event that triggered the alarm so I can add it to the rest of my script.
Thanks
darock

There is no current event in iCal. Austin Kinsella posted a work around in this thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1340164&#1340164

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Hi there
It's been 2 days now that I decided to make a script for an automation of iCal, and I give up ;p.
First of all, can anyone tell me where can I find a complete reference of the iCal scripts (i.e. all the objects and methods that are scripted in iCal, like the "calendar" object).
What I want to do, is to export all my calendars to a specific location (I'm lookinf fot the export methods using applescript). Does anyone has a hint?
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The first problem is you need to have an ellipsis in the name of the menu item. If you look in iCal's File menu, you'll see the menu item name is actually "Export…" with an ellipsis at the end (no spaces).
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Message was edited by: Gilles

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