I have a Smart Rule that is set to run on import of items to Inbox. It runs an embedded AppleScript. The purpose of the script is to write a markdown link for the imported item to a log file in my system. For that, I need to access the name and devonthink item link.
the smart rule often works, but sometimes, it gives me the error “Expected end of line, etc. but found class name.”
The first few lines of the script are:
-- a smart rule on new imports into Inbox
on performSmartRule(theRecords)
tell application id "DNtp"
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theName to name of theRecord
set theLink to reference URL of theRecord
When view the script in the editor, the error highlights the “URL” word…
Just an idea, and I can’t play with it now. I wonder whether sometimes the reference URL is not yet available when the script runs. I would try putting a delay 1 in before the repeat loop. If, that is, there is no obvious logic to which items are working and which are not.
A delay is usually just a workaround but doesn’t fix the actual issue. Therefore the complete source of the smart rule would be useful plus a screenshot of the smart rule’s conditions.
E.g. one idea coming to my mind is that the smart rule processes several records including both groups and documents due to its conditions and processing the first records of the list invalidates the remaining ones and then causes the error.
-- a smart rule on new imports into Inbox
on performSmartRule(theRecords)
tell application id "DNtp"
delay 1
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theName to name of theRecord
set theLink to reference URL of theRecord
--set the clipboard to (theLink & " " & theName) as string
--handle the link
set otid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
if theLink contains "%3C" then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "%3C"
set {var1, var2} to {text item 1, text item 2} of theLink
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "%3E"
set var3 to text item 1 of var2
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to otid
set theLink to var1 & "%253C" & var3 & "%253E"
end if
--now handle the name
set theName to do shell script "echo \"" & theName & "\"|perl -pe's/([^-_.~A-Za-z0-9])/sprintf(\"%%%02X\", ord(\"$1\"))/seg'"
--trim newline from end of name if it's there
set otid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
if theName contains "%0A" then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "%0A"
set var1 to text item 1 of theName
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to otid
set theName to var1
end if
--combined into a URL call
set theURL to "drafts://x-callback-url/append?uuid=F5998E63-A07D-41C5-AC81-3F12A92BEA3D&text=" & "[" & theName & "](" & theLink & ")"
open location theURL
end repeat
end tell
end performSmartRule
Trying to remember. Possibly to manage the case where I dragged several files from Finder to the Finder’s (devonthink) Inbox shortcut - that is, when multiple files are imported this way, there’s a stray linefeed to be avoided.
on performSmartRule(theRecords)
tell application id "DNtp"
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theName to name of theRecord
set theLink to reference URL of theRecord
set recordTags to tags of theRecord
--handle the link
set theLink to do JavaScript "encodeURIComponent(\"" & theLink & "\");" in think window 1
--now handle the name
set theName to do JavaScript "encodeURIComponent(\"" & theName & "\");" in think window 1
--combined into a URL call
set theURL to "drafts://x-callback-url/append?uuid=CFB45169-A532-44E6-8C52-BC5B0B26E47C&text=" & "[" & theName & "](" & theLink & ")"
set tags of theRecord to (recordTags & "Logged")
open location theURL
end repeat
end tell
end performSmartRule
