At my awesome job we use HipChat for team collaboration. I also use the Pomodoro app to try and manage my time. One problem is that I often get interrupted while working.

Long story short, the Pomodoro app lets you run AppleScript when various events happen, so I wrote some stuff to change my HipChat status to DND when I’m in the middle of a work cycle. Here’s the code:

tell application "System Events" to tell UI element "HipChat" of list 1 of process "Dock"
    perform action "AXShowMenu"
    delay 0.5
    click menu item "Status" of menu 1
    click menu item "DND" of menu 1 of menu item "Status" of menu 1
 end tell

All that remains is to insert that into the Pomodoro app through Preferences -> Scripts:

Just note that you have to change “DND” to “Available” for some of the events.

This was my first foray into AppleScript, so it’s possible I’m sending my banking details off to Nigeria, but it seems to work so far.

Edit you need to enable access for assistive devices from System Preferences -> Universal Access: