DT’s scripting dictionary provides two duplicate commands: one from the Standard Suite, and one from the DT suite. The latter one works as announced from JavaScript. The former one … well, I have no idea how one would use it from the description:
duplicate specifier : the object for the command
[to: location specifier] : The location for the new object(s).
[withProperties: [Record]] : Properties to be set in the new duplicated object(s).
app.duplicate(record)
complains about a missing parameter (and the protocol shows that duplicate is called without a parameter. The same seems to happen with AppleScript:
tell application id "DNtp"
set rec to item 1 of selected records
duplicate rec as reference
end tell
Error message:
duplicate content id 92470 of database id 2
--> error number -1701
Ergebnis:
error "„DEVONthink 3“ hat einen Fehler erhalten: Einige Parameter fehlen für „duplicate“." number -1701
If I understand the documentation correctly, the parameters to and with parameters are not required – so what parameter is missing?
Sorry if that’s a stupid question, but I didn’t find anything on The Net either – seems people know how to use that method or they’re not using it for anything but duplicating files in Finder.