Notification Silencer (was AppleScript ain't so bad)

Sick of getting inappropriate popups during screen-sharing sessions? This took about 30 minutes to hack up after I figured out where to look. It could still be a lot better of course, but it does the job.

UPDATE: resurrected in 2021:

-- Run via crontab: 0,1,29,30,31,59 8-18 * * 1,2,3,4,5 osascript ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~ScriptEditor2/Documents/meeting-test.scpt > /Users/jcoates/Library/Logs/meeting-test.log

set Cals2Check to "Calendar"

set curdate to current date

set tomorrow to (current date) + 86400

set delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters

if Cals2Check contains ", " then

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {", "}

else

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {","}

end if

set caltitles to every text item of Cals2Check

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delims

-- if Outlook isn't running, let's just move along

tell application "System Events"

set outlook_running to (name of processes) contains "Microsoft Outlook"

end tell

if not (outlook_running) then

quit

end if

tell application "System Events"

set Slack_running to (name of processes) contains "Slack"

end tell

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

--We need to get the ID of each calendar, as the names are not always unique (this may be an issue with mounted shared calendars)

set calIDs to {}

repeat with i from 1 to number of items in caltitles

set caltitle to item i of caltitles

set calIDs to calIDs & (id of every calendar whose name is caltitle)

end repeat

--Now we get a list of events from each of the calendar that match our time criteria

set calEvents to {}

repeat with i from 1 to number of items in calIDs

set CalID to item i of calIDs

tell (calendar id CalID)

-- find events that are currently active and truly busy. filter out the really long ones.

set calEvents to calEvents & (every calendar event whose (start time < (curdate)) and (end time > (curdate) and (end time < (tomorrow)) and (free busy status = busy) and (all day flag = false)))

end tell

end repeat

if number of items in calEvents > 0 then

-- I'm in a meeting, so quiet down

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

-- set working offline to true

set display alerts to false

end tell

if (Slack_running) then

-- uses https://github.com/samknight/slack_applescript

tell script "Slack"

set do not disturb

end tell

end if

-- I'd like to toggle the OS Do Not Disturb function here; for now, just leaving it on all the time

return (curdate & "shhhhhhhh" & subject of item 1 of calEvents)

else

-- I'm not in a meeting, so tell me things

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

-- set working offline to false

set display alerts to true

end tell

if (Slack_running) then

-- uses https://github.com/samknight/slack_applescript

tell script "Slack"

set as active

end tell

end if

-- I'd like to toggle the OS Do Not Disturb function here; for now, just leaving it on all the time

return (curdate & "let's play!")

end if

end tell

end

   

UPDATE: I've made a few changes to filter out corner cases. This script is a daily life saver.


UPDATE AGAIN: Now supports Mountain Lion Messages as well.

-- Run via crontab: 0,1,29,30,31,59 8-18 * * 1,2,3,4,5 osascript /Users/jcoates/bin/meeting-test.scpt > /Users/jcoates/Library/Logs/meeting-test.log

set Cals2Check to "Calendar,Solutions"

set curdate to current date

set tomorrow to (current date) + 86400



set delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters

if Cals2Check contains ", " then

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {", "}

else

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {","}

end if

set caltitles to every text item of Cals2Check

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to delims



-- if Outlook isn't running, let's just move along

tell application "System Events"

 set outlook_running to (name of processes) contains "Microsoft Outlook"

end tell

if not (outlook_running) then

 quit

end if



tell application "System Events"

 set adium_running to (name of processes) contains "Adium"

end tell



tell application "System Events"

 set messages_running to (name of processes) contains "Messages"

end tell



tell application "System Events"

 set skype_running to (name of processes) contains "Skype"

end tell





tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

 

 --We need to get the ID of each calendar, as the names are not always unique (this may be an issue with mounted shared calendars)

 set calIDs to {}

 repeat with i from 1 to number of items in caltitles

  set caltitle to item i of caltitles

  set calIDs to calIDs & (id of every calendar whose name is caltitle)

 end repeat

 

 

 --Now we get a list of events from each of the calendar that match our time criteria

 set calEvents to {}

 repeat with i from 1 to number of items in calIDs

  set CalID to item i of calIDs

  

  tell (calendar id CalID)

   -- find events that are currently active and truly busy. filter out the really long ones.

   set calEvents to calEvents & (every calendar event whose (start time < (curdate)) and (end time > (curdate) and (end time < (tomorrow)) and (free busy status = busy) and (all day flag = false)))

  end tell

  

 end repeat

 

 if number of items in calEvents > 0 then

  -- I'm in a meeting, so quiet down

  tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

   -- set working offline to true

   set display alerts to false

  end tell

  if (adium_running) then

   tell application "Adium"

    go invisible

    -- quit

   end tell

  end if

  if (messages_running) then

   tell application "Messages"

    log out

    -- quit

   end tell

  end if

  if (skype_running) then

   tell application "Skype"

    send command "SET USERSTATUS INVISIBLE" script name "AppleScript status setter"

    -- quit

   end tell

  end if

  return (curdate & "shhhhhhhh" & subject of item 1 of calEvents)

 else

  -- I'm not in a meeting, so tell me things

  tell application "Microsoft Outlook"

   -- set working offline to false

   set display alerts to true

  end tell

  if (adium_running) then

   tell application "Adium"

    -- run

    go available

   end tell

  end if

  if (messages_running) then

   tell application "Messages"

    log in

    -- quit

   end tell

  end if

  if (skype_running) then

   tell application "Skype"

    -- run

    send command "SET USERSTATUS ONLINE" script name "AppleScript status setter"

   end tell

  end if

  return (curdate & "let's play!")

 end if

end tell