Calendar Scripting Guide: Creating a Calendar

Creating a Calendar

Use the make command to create a new calendar on your Mac, as demonstrated in Listing 3-1 and Listing 3-2. The result of the make command is a reference to the newly created calendar, which can be assigned to a variable for later use in a script. For example, after you create a calendar, a script could add events to it.

APPLESCRIPT

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Listing 3-1AppleScript: Creating a new calendar

tell application "Calendar"
set theCalendarName to "Project Calendar"
set theCalendarDescription to "Calendar for top secret Apple project."
set theNewCalendar to make new calendar with properties {name:theCalendarName, description:theCalendarDescription}
end tell
--> Result: calendar 3 of application "Calendar"

JAVASCRIPT

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Listing 3-2JavaScript: Creating a new calendar

var Calendar = Application("Calendar")
var calendarName = "Project Calendar"
var calendarDescription = "Calendar for top secret Apple project."
var newCalendar = Calendar.Calendar({name: calendarName, description: calendarDescription}).make()
// Result: Application("Calendar").calendars.at(3)

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