Group name to all its contents

DEVONthink Automation
1

Hello to the powerful community of the powerful software!

Let’s say I have many groups with texts in them. How can I import the name of the group (or the clipboard) at the bottom of all the text documents the group contains?

I am trying to organize my references so I can import the title of source (group name) to the texts (the notes I have written).

2

Just have a look at this thread:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3094

3

Thanx for the reply but it seems that there is a problem. Whenever I run the script from the Script Editor, I get an error. How should I alter the script you provided above?

4

It helps if you quote the error exactly as it is printed on your screen/console.

5

As a warning: You may laugh with my Scripting skills at the moment. I promiss I will learn some scriptin’

This is the error i get:
DEVONthink Pro got an error: Can’t make name of parent group of content id 320072 of database 1 into type reference.

When i run this scrip:

tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
	set theWindow to think window 1
	copy the selection of theWindow to theSelection
	repeat with theRecord in theSelection
		set thegroupname to (name of parent group of theRecord)
		set the selection of theWindow to {theRecord}
		delay 1
		tell text of theWindow
			make new paragraph with data (thegroupname & return & return) at beginning
		end tell
		tell theWindow to save without asking
	end repeat
end tell

and it’s highlighting the word “name” in the fifth line. Any comments?

6

Just replace “name of parent group” with “name of parent 1”. Warning: Records can have no, one or multiple parents.

7

OH!!!

Thank you very much!! I think adding the group’s name to the text files might be very useful to some people. Thanks once again.