Is there a simple way to determine the calendar for a selected event?

AppleScript
#1

If I know the id of an event, is there a simple way to determine the Calendar it belongs to? I want to retrieve properties of the selected event in iCal without caring what calendar the event belongs to.

I am aware of ways of doing this using CalendarLib, just wondering if there is a simpler way (see forum-latenightsw-com/t/how-do-i-get-selected-event-in-apple-calendar/2114/4 )

set defaultsReply to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.ical SelectedEvents")

set localUIDs to {}
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, quote}
set resultItems to text items of defaultsReply
set text item delimiters to TID
repeat with i from 1 to (count resultItems)
	if i mod 2 = 0 then set end of localUIDs to resultItems's item i
end repeat


tell application id "com.apple.iCal" -- Calendar
	set theProps to properties of event id (item 1 of localUIDs) of calendar "Work"
end tell
#2

If all you need are the properties of an event, you don’t need to know the calendar name. You can use this syntax to lookup the event in any calendar:

tell application "Calendar"
	properties of event id "1FE923B3-B572-4912-8628-7A925C8CA4FC" of some calendar
end tell
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#3

Thanks Mark, that was exactly what I was looking for. Perfect. So I now have a script that will retrieve last/current selected event (even if Calendar is closed) and retrieve properties of same.