Entering a URL and changing views

DEVONthink Tips
1

If I’m looking at a site in the built-in browser and then want to enter a URL to go to a different site, am I right in thinking that I have to create a URL entry/item to do this? I can’t seem to enter a URL in the URL bar in the browser.

Also, if I’m looking at a site in the built-in browser and want to check another document in my db, it seems as though I cant go back to the site I was looking at in the browser other than going to the original home page of that site again. Is this right, too?

Thanks

2

Yes, you are correct.

You can open the page in a new window to avoid that limitation.

3

Thanks for the info, Bill. Any chance one will be able to go to different urls without creating a link in future upgrades, or is this a limitation imposed by the webkit?

Martin

4

Hi, Martin:

Possibly. No promises.

5

You could add this script to the Scripts menu:



tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
	try
		if not (exists (think window 1)) then error "No window is open."
		if not (exists URL of think window 1) or (URL of think window 1 as string) is "" then error "No page has been loaded."
		
		repeat
			display dialog "Enter the URL to load:" default answer "http://" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
			set this_URL to the text returned of the result
			if this_URL is not "" then exit repeat
		end repeat
		
		set the URL of think window 1 to this_URL
	on error error_message number error_number
		if the error_number is not -128 then
			try
				display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
			on error number error_number
				if error_number is -1708 then display dialog error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
			end try
		end if
	end try
end tell
6

Christian:

Thanks so much for the script. It works just great! So now I can type in a URL, go to where I want to in there, then using the script go go another URL and my back button will take me to the first URL. And I can do this with as many as I want. At least that’s how I’m using it now and I’m assuming that’s what it’s for :slight_smile:

Thanks again!