Hi All
I am new to devonthink and AppleScript. I use hazel rules to tag documents and then move them to DT3’s Global Inbox
Every file I move to DT3 has at least 2 tags:
A # handler (such as #archive) which tells me which database a file should go into
A 1234-012 | tag (such as 1111-001 | personal documents) which tells me into which folder a document should be filed into
I would like to automate the filing of documents based on this logic. I suppose I can do this using AppleScript. I tried smart rules, but I would need a smart rule for each combination of tags with would require hundreds of rules
The script should read the document’s tags and move into the correct folder inside the correct database
Seems straightforward
“"Not clear on how these tags are stored "” (answered Devonthink)
Untested sample code is listed below and shows reading the document’s tags
on performSmartRule(theRecords)
tell application id "DNtp"
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theTags to tags of theRecord
set theFilingGroup to my IdFilingGroup(theTags)
set theRecord to move record theRecord to theFilingGroup
end repeat
end tell
end performSmartRule
on idFilingGroup(theTags)
repeat with theTag in theTags
...
end repeat
end idFilingGroup
If you don’t need the tags for anything else, you could move the documents into the correct DT groups directly from Hazel, without tagging them first.
That would save one script.
1111-001 | personal documents is a group and it is unique inside a database (although there could be one such folder inside each database)
My logic is:
The #XXXXX tells me which database a document should go to
The “1111-001 | personal documents” kind of tag tells me which group to place it into inside the above database
The caveat is that a document might have other tags, albeit none with the same structure as the above ones
Not knowing your specific situation and the reasons for your naming convention, have you ever considered changing the approach to make 1111-001 the group and personal documents a subgroup? Or even…