I am currently encountering an issue where Devonthink links to an item in an open database don’t always open the respective item when they are followed from outside of DT. However, upon checking they are fully functional within DevonThink and definitely refer to the item.
The expected behavior would be that a new DevonThink window with the database item is opened. And often this is what actually happens, but not always. Instead, sometimes the main window will open with the most recently selected item.
To be more specific, for reasons not relevant here certain items in my database get their own item link added to their URL. In a third-party application, I then open the standard Finder Get Info window and follow the URL via right-click → Open Link to quickly access the database item.
Since I never heard of both of these, I don’t think so.
Non-standard to some extent, sure. It’s true that I customize a lot of things on my system and it’s possible that something is interfering here and causing the unexpected behavior.
At the same time, it’s also not absurd to expect a link to a DT item to open that item regardless from where it’s followed. Please let me know if I can provide any other background info on what I’m doing that might help to pinpoint the cause.
For those links that already do open a new window this works in order to instead reveal the linked item. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make a difference for those links showing the unexpected behavior.
The links are added via a Smart Rule in DT, which adds the Item Link placeholder to the URL field.
As a pretty good workaround, I now set up a kb maestro macro, which searches for the exact name of the item in DevonThink. This addresses my use case for now.
Yes. The file is indexed and I am accessing it both through DevonThink and a third-party app. After editing in the third-party app I also need to edit the same file in DevonThink.
