AppleScript-created reminder not visible

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I’m starting to work with reminders, and am encountering what may be an inconsistency with Applescript.
I can create a reminder for an item, with a due date, in the inspector, and read off its properties in a script, or remove it that way.
But if I create a reminder for the item in Applescript, I don’t see anything in the inspector. But the reminder does exist, AppleScipt tells me. And if in some view I show the Due Date column, the correct date is there. But I have no way to see the other properties in the inspector, which sometimes would be convenient. Am I missing something?

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Show your code, please

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For instance:

tell theRec to make new reminder with properties {due date:theDate, schedule:monthly, interval:2}

This reminder will be attached to the record correctly.

Back to AppleScript again, and this :

get properties of reminder of theRec

gives:

{class:reminder, week of month:no week, alarm:no alarm, interval:2, masc:0, day of week:no day, schedule:monthly, due date:date "woensdag 24 januari 2024 om 1:56:00 PM", alarm string:missing value}

But it is not visible in the inspector.

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I can confirm that, but I don’t know what’s at the root of it.
DT 3.9.4, macOS 14.2.1
@cgrunenberg might have an idea. Also: The scripting dictionary says:

Reminder Object [inh. Item] : A reminder of a record. Use the command 'make new ... with properties {...} at ... ' to create new reminders.

which is not how the make command is used here (nor in the samples I found in the forum). Instead, make is called as a command on the record itself (i.e. with tell record to make…), no at parameter used.
And I have no idea how to use all this with JavaScript. rec.make({new: "reminder"}, withProperties: {…}) throws an error as does rec.make({new: "Reminder"}, withProperties: {…})

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Actually this works fine for me:

tell application id "DNtp"
	set theRec to selected record 1
	set theDate to current date
	tell theRec to make new reminder with properties {due date:theDate, schedule:monthly, interval:2}
end tell

See folder ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.devon-technologies.think3/Smart Rules for some additional examples.

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The make command does not work in JXA in any application. And this crashes the Script Editor.app :wink:

var app = Application("DEVONthink 3");
app.includeStandardAdditions = true;
var record = app.selectedRecords()[0];
var theDate = Date();
var theReminder = app.Reminder({'dueDate':theDate, 'schedule':'monthly', 'interval':2});
record.reminder = theReminder;
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It does for me, too, and now my code works, too, without changes!
Mysterious. But thanks for the help.

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Interestingly, that does work. With another record and similar properties, nothing appeared in the Inspector.

It works differently. See

At least with other apps.

(() => {
  const app = Application("DEVONthink 3");
  const record = app.selectedRecords()[0];
  var theReminder = app.Reminder({'dueDate': Date(), 'schedule':'monthly', 'interval':2});
  console.log(theReminder); 
  record.reminder = theReminder;
})()

This, for example, crashes in the assignment. But it works up to the console.log call.

OTOH,

const theReminder = app.Reminder().make()

throws the error message “Object can’t be moved into the container or created in it” (my translation).
I agree that the whole make business in JXA is weird. But there are apps that make it work (kind of).
In any case: The part of the scripting lib doc that says one should use at as a parameter is probably not correct and should be fixed, I think.

Edit I just noticed that we’ve been over that before:

Sorry for not remembering that one. But as I said: Other apps work ok with similar commands. It would be nice if DT would, too.