Hi-
Please take this as a very general thought: I’m not sure that I’ve thought it through completely, and there may be some better way to approach it, perhaps even with DTPO as it exists.
I’ve been writing a few Applescripts that select items in a database using criteria that go beyond what a search could do.
A current example is duplicate file names. I downloaded a bunch of PDFs from the NYT database in 2008, and some in 2009, and it turns out they update their copyright notices! So I have quite a few PDFs that are essentially identical, but DTPO doesn’t automatically recognize them as such.
It isn’t a huge problem to write an Applescipt that will flag the duplicate filenames. Right now I’m dumping the information to the Console and using it as a “map” into the “All PDF Documents” smart group.
It would be really great if I could dump the result of an Applescript into a DTPO browser window, and then be able to use the basic sorting features (by label, filename, etc.), and also to be able to “Get Info” on the results, etc.
I suppose that I could write the results to a scratch DTPO database, but I think that Replicant information isn’t preserved across databases, correct?
Anyway, just a thought. Things as they are right now are pretty fine, as it always is with DTPO!
Best, Charles