can someone explain this weird behaviour to me? I am trying to get a note named "TEST" but even when I run this command:
tell application "Notes"
activate
set theName to get name of the first note
display dialog theName
set theNote to the note whose name is theName
end tell
Dialog will correctly display name (that is a "TEST").
But this code resulted with an error: "Can’t get note whose name = \"TEST\"."
What am I doing wrong?
Drop the "whose name is" and you should get what you're after.
e.g,
tell application "Notes"
activate
set theName to get name of the first note
display dialog theName
set theNote to the note theName
end tell
Related
So I've been trying to write an AppleScript script that would create a folder with an input of user, but unfortunately I can't get it working. Any help is appreciated.
set theResponse to display dialog "Enter the name of folder" default answer "" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"
display dialog "Name of the folder: " & (text returned of theResponse) & "."
tell application "Finder"
make new folder at desktop with properties {name:"theResponse"}
end tell
Here's a modified version of your code that will work:
set theResponse to text returned of (display dialog "Enter the name of folder" default answer "" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue")
display dialog "Name of the folder: " & theResponse & "."
tell application "Finder"
make new folder at desktop with properties {name:theResponse}
end tell
In your original code, {name:"theResponse"}, with "theResponse" in quotes, it's literally theResponse not the text returned.
So, In the first line of code, I started off with setting the theResponse variable to the text returned, so it need not be referenced as such later in the script.
Thus (text returned of theResponse) in the second line of code is now set to just theResponse, which contains the value of that variable.
Now when it comes time to make new folder the name property is the value of theResponse, without quotes, and it already contains the text returned from the first line of code.
I have a list, and I want which every element of this list (order number)
to run a search, grab text from chrome and navigate through a website using this order number.
I have already both script (A and B)
I thought I could just add my long script (B) to the first one, inside
repeat with theItem in theResult
Script B
end repeat
but this is not working, I get the error
Expected “end” but found “property"
Script B e.g :
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell front window's active tab to set infoGrab to execute javascript "document.getElementsByClassName('even')[2].innerHTML;"
end tell
set theText to Unicode text
set theSource to infoGrab
property leftEdge72 : "<a href=\"/"
property rightEdge72 : "\">"
set saveTID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to leftEdge72
set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
set text item delimiters to rightEdge72
set uniqueIDKey to text item 1 of classValue
set text item delimiters to saveTID
uniqueIDKey
and more.
I then tried to save script B in an independent script and run from script A like this
repeat with theItem in theResult
set the clipboard to theItem
set myScript to load script file ((path to desktop folder as text) & "SEARCH.scpt")
tell myScript
end tell
delay 30
end repeat
but this don't work neither, the script B since to ignore all repeat and delay and just run everything instantaneity with no action on goole chrome
Question : How to I get to do other action for each element of a list including text-delimiter and more.
PS : sorry if my post is confusing.
I think your script is flawed, since "Script B" does NOT use "theItem" variable from the repeat loop. So, "Script B" will return the same result for every item.
Your objective is not clear. Perhaps if you provided more details, with real-world example data of both the source HTML and the expected results we could provide better help.
IAC, why are you calling a script instead of using a handler?
Here's your scripts refactored to use a handler, as an example.
repeat with theItem in theResult
## You don't seem to use "theItem" in the Script B ##
# if so, then the getID() handler will return the same results for all items in this loop
set myID to my getID()
end repeat
on getID() -- was Script B
-- put in same script file, or in script library
-- does this need to have a parameter?
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell front window's active tab to set infoGrab to execute javascript "document.getElementsByClassName('even')[2].innerHTML;"
end tell
set theText to Unicode text
set theSource to infoGrab
set leftEdge72 to "<a href=\"/"
set rightEdge72 to "\">"
set saveTID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to leftEdge72
set classValue to text item 2 of theSource
set text item delimiters to rightEdge72
set uniqueIDKey to text item 1 of classValue
set text item delimiters to saveTID
return uniqueIDKey
end getID
run script alias ((path to desktop folder as text) & "SEARCH.scpt")
I have a dialog which opens to input and store user input(name).
Upon error (which is is either due to no name entered or the name already exists) i want the dialog to re-open. Finally, if the second attempt fails again, open a dialog which states that and exit.
The problem is, whether the name exists or does not, all 3 dialogs are ALWAYS displayed.
What am i missing?
try
display dialog "Specify a new folder name:" default answer "John The Dog"
set newName to (text returned of result)
on error errorMessage number errorNumber
end try
try
display dialog "Specify a DIFFERENT folder name:" default answer "John The Dog12"
set newName to (text returned of result)
on error errorMessage number errorNumber
end try
try
display dialog "NAME ALREADY EXISTS! The program will now exit." with icon caution buttons {"EXIT"}
end try
Thanks!
Try this. Note I did not test this but it should work. Just put this code in place of your code where you try to get the folder name.
You can basically create as many dialogTexts/defaultAnswers combinations as you want and it will work. Good luck.
-- get the names of all the folders in the targetFolder
tell application "Finder" to set targetFolderNames to name of folders of folder targetFolder
set dialogTexts to {"Specify a new folder name:", "Specify a DIFFERENT folder name:"}
set defaultAnswers to {"John The Dog", "John The Dog12"}
repeat with i from 1 to count of dialogTexts
display dialog item i of dialogTexts default answer item i of defaultAnswers
set newName to (text returned of result)
if newName is not "" and newName is not in targetFolderNames then exit repeat
if i is (count of dialogTexts) then
display dialog "NAME ALREADY EXISTS! The program will now exit." with icon caution buttons {"EXIT"} default button 1
return input
end if
end repeat
-- do something with newName
While trying to make an automator action that opens multiple tabs from selected text as input I ran into an applescript issue I wasn't able to solve for awhile. This includes the answer and I'm posting this here because I just wasn't able to find documentation on how to handle data in "input" for a receives selected "text" in "any application" automator action, everything is for files which comes in as a list already.
When putting an applescript action in, you get:
on run {input, parameters}
the problem here is that input isn't in a list format and trying to do anything with it breaks the script or throws an error. ie I can't do:
repeat with URL in input
set this_URL to URL
So how can I treat a list of selected text as a list of items?
the solution is first treat input as a string then break apart every paragraph.
on run {input, parameters}
set inputText to input as string
set URL_list to every paragraph of inputText
Without treating input "as string" first before doing "every paragraph of" it won't work.
Here's the end working script, replace the "some_url" with your own. You'll be able to select several lines of text in an editor and treat each one as a parameter to your fixed url opening each in a new safari tab. This could be expanded upon by having each line be delimited for multiple params on the url.
on run {input, parameters}
set inputText to input as string
set URL_list to every paragraph of inputText
tell application "Safari"
activate
repeat with URL in URL_list
set this_URL to URL
# extra processing of URL could be done here for multiple params
my new_tab()
set tab_URL to "http://some_url.com?data=" & this_URL
set the URL of document 1 to tab_URL
end repeat
end tell
return input
end run
on new_tab()
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Safari"
click menu item "New Tab" of ¬
menu "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
end new_tab
As an example say you had the list and had a service of the above using "http://stackoverflow.com/posts/" & this_URL
6318162
6318163
6318164
you could now select them click services and choose your "StackOverflow - view questions" service and it'll append and open each one in a new safari tab. In my case I needed to verify multiple dns entries in our server as still valid and do a bunch of whois lookups.
I was looking for the same thing, just for files as input from Automator to AppleScript.
ddowns's trick didn't work for that, but ended up using this, hope it's helpful for someone looking for solving the same issue I ran into:
on run {input, parameters}
-- create empty list
set selectedFiles to {}
-- add each list item to the empty list
repeat with i in input
copy (POSIX path of i) to end of selectedFiles
end repeat
-- show each item (just for testing purposes of course)
repeat with currentFile in selectedFiles
display dialog currentFile as text
end repeat
end run
As Hanzaplastique says, for AppleScript within Automator, you don't need the Safari AppleScript because there's an Action for that. I use the following Actions:
Extract URLs from Text (actually the 'Extract Data from Text' Action)
Run AppleScript
Display Webpages
I use it as a Workflow added to the Services menu so that I can right-click on selected text in an email and open multiple URLs in Safari tabs.
In particular, I get Server / WordPress updates in an email but the URLs are just the top level of the domains and I want to jump to the plugins page of WordPress. So, my AppleScript (with thanks to Hanzaplastique) is:
on run {input, parameters}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & linefeed, return, linefeed, character id 8233, character id 8232}
-- create empty list
set selectedFiles to {}
-- add each list item to the empty list
repeat with i in input
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {" "}
set i to i & "/wp-admin/plugins.php"
copy i to end of selectedFiles
end repeat
return selectedFiles
end run
I found I needed the 'return selectedFiles'. The always mysterious (to me) text delimiters may not be necessary and come from the previous version which only pulled out a single URL.
I am trying to write a script that will add a new key to a dictionary plist. The script works fine when using a string for the key of the dictionary but I can't seem to figure out how to use a variable for the keyname. The script is below and is almost working. THe only issue is being able to use keyName as a variable instead of a string literal (which it is doing now).
on pListAddValueForKey(plistFile, keyName, keyValue)
tell application "System Events"
tell property list file plistFile
tell contents
set previousValue to value
set value to (previousValue & {keyName:keyValue}) -- this is the line in need of assistance
end tell
end tell
end tell
end pListAddValueForKey
Try this...
on pListAddValueForKey(plistFile, keyName, keyValue)
if class of plistFile is not text then set plistFile to plistFile as text
tell application "System Events"
tell property list file plistFile
tell contents
make new property list item at end of property list items with properties {name:keyName, value:keyValue}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end pListAddValueForKey