Recurring iCal to-do's

Question

I would like Automator to add a to-do event (with due date) in iCal every week. Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Answer 1

Well, I do it with AppleScript rather than Automator. Here is what I do.
So, as an example, I have a calendar in iCal called "Ongoing Tasks". I want to remind myself to pay the kids allowance every Saturday. So, I have created a recurring appointment in this calendar called "Pay kids allowance" that is set to occur every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. It has an alarm, set to "Run Script"; the script is called "PayKidsAllowance", and this is the code for the script:
tell application "iCal"
set newtodo to (make new todo at end of todos of calendar "Ongoing Tasks")
tell newtodo
set summary to "Pay Kids Allowance"
set due date to current date
make new display alarm at end with properties {trigger interval:0}
end tell
end tell
And this code creates a new To Do with a due date of the date that the script is run. So, in effect, it creates a new To Do every Saturday morning with that date as the due date to remind me to pay the allowance.
I hope that helps . . .
Message was edited by: doogald