AppleScript to set thumbnail of group to same as parent group?

[mhucka]

@pete31 and @chrillek thank you for your efforts on this.

@pete31

Ahh, yes, if there’s data then there’s probably a thumbnail

I’m sorry it wasn’t obvious (and I didn’t explicitly mention) that I was careful to test a case where there was a custom icon on the parent group.

@pete31

If you’d like to colorize your groups (or any other record) you could try Script: Colorize DEVONthink Icons.

I had seen that before (fantastic work, btw) as well as the related threads (e.g., Can we color the project icon? from 2019), but I’m just not a fan of DEVONthink’s icons, so have been replacing them with custom icons rather than just coloring them.

@pete31

it’s only possible to set a record’s thumbnail to another record’s thumbnail directly (see my script), i.e. without storing the thumbnail in a variable.

Ahhhhh … that’s the part that didn’t occur to me [1].

@chrillek

Yuck.

Yes, indeed. If I change the code to

tell application id "DNtp"
	set rec to (item 1 of (selection as list))
	set parentRec to (item 1 of (parent of rec))
	set thumbnail of rec to thumbnail of parentRec
end tell

it works.

@pete31 thank for the code that checks for the existence of the thumbnail above. That will be a good addition to what I’m doing.

[1] I mean, come on. The value can’t be stored in a variable, but the code works if you assign it directly? What? What?