First let me say how much I love DEVONthink and how superior it is in all respects to all Personal Information Managers
I am trying to automate DTPO through Hazel, as many people are. To that end, I have Hazel notice certain PDF files, rename them, and then run an Automator workflow to file them in DTPO before trashing them.
Hazel runs fine but I am noticing that frequently, no items end up imported in DTPO. It seems I need to be on the same desktop space, or even have DTPO run foreground, for the Automator workflow to work. Am I doing something wrong? Or is it normal behavior?
Make sure Hazel has a Date Last Modified is after Date Last Matched statement, to ensure proper folder monitoring
Forget Automator. Either have Hazel put the matched document into a folder that has one of DEVONthink Pro Office’s folder actions (see Help), or, preferably, put a script into your Hazel action(s) to have the matched document imported into the group you wish. There are examples of this in the forum.
Here’s a good approach along these lines (via @FROBGOBLIN)
Okay, thank you I will probably go the script route, because it will enable me to create and sort groups on the fly with variables (such as years), which is my final intent.
Just for my own information and to know where to go from there, when you say to forget Automator, is it because it is known to be unreliable with DEVONthink? I had encountered one other bug where I could not file PDFs into groups with a variable name that had some calculations done on it (“current year -1” for instance). I could file into the current year recuperated as a variable, I could create a “current year -1” group, but not do both, it would just return errors.
I will probably go the script route, because it will enable me to create and sort groups on the fly with variables (such as years), which is my final intent.