How do you tell applescript to use a sub group as theGroup?

DEVONthink Automation
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I am trying to modify a script that imports email and attachments into DTPO. I have a group called “Archive” with a sub-group called “Attachments.”

I am trying to get this line to work:

tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
set theAttachmentRecord to import theFile to "Attachments"
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I expect it to use the sub-group "Attachments," but it creates a new top-level group called "Attachments" instead. I figure I must be close, because it does place the attachment in the group that it creates... it just isn't the right group. :slight_smile:

What am I doing wrong?
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You want to specify the location (the POSIX path to the target group) in the command that creates a record with your attachment. For example:


set theRecord to create record with {name:"My Name", location:"Attachments" }

You didn’t post enough of your script to be able to be more specific about this.

See also the sample mail import scripts that come in the DEVONthink installation.

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Thanks Korm,

That was enough to get me going. All I needed to do was change


set theAttachmentRecord to import theFile to "Attachments"

to


set theAttachmentRecord to import theFile to create location "Archive/Attachments"

Now everything works brilliantly.

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