Hi,
is there a way to search in a database but exclude groups and its children?
Thanks
Hi,
is there a way to search in a database but exclude groups and its children?
Thanks
What exactly do you want – exclude (title) or include groups (text)?
Include a title and exclude a group
Sorry, just realised i used the wrong word in my post
Example:
Content contains „insurance“ and not in group „insurance documents“
If you always want to exclude certain groups in your search, perhaps the easiest way is just to enable the exclude from search in the generic inspector (^1) for the groups and their items.
Thanks but this would just be for one-off queries
I don’t use this method, but a quick test shows that I only need to exclude the main group, not the items under it - so it’s rather straight forward. Perhaps the best way is to try it first by yourself and see if it works.
Ye but constantly excluding and including groups in the settings is insanely cumbersome. At that point auto tagging and excluding tags might be easier
Use the group selector instead, it knows which group you’ve selected the last time, so it’s done with few keystrokes.
Exclude
-- Exclude group from search (via group selector)
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theGroup to display group selector "Exclude from search:"
set exclude from search of theGroup to true
display notification (name of theGroup as string) with title "Excluded from Search"
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
end try
end tell
Include
-- Include group in search (via group selector)
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theGroup to display group selector "Include in search:"
set exclude from search of theGroup to false
display notification (name of theGroup as string) with title "Included in Search"
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
end try
end tell
That is neat, thank you
Updated scripts. They now refresh the search results so the changed exluded status is directly visible.
Exclude
-- Exclude group from search (via group selector)
property updateSearchResults : true
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theGroup to display group selector "Exclude from search:"
set exclude from search of theGroup to true
display notification (name of theGroup as string) with title "Excluded from Search"
if updateSearchResults = true then
if (exists viewer window 1) then
set theQuery to (search query of viewer window 1) as string
if theQuery ≠"" then
set search query of viewer window 1 to "_"
set search query of viewer window 1 to theQuery
end if
end if
end if
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
end try
end tell
Include
-- Include group in search (via group selector)
property updateSearchResults : true
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set theGroup to display group selector "Include in search:"
set exclude from search of theGroup to false
display notification (name of theGroup as string) with title "Included in Search"
if updateSearchResults = true then
if (exists viewer window 1) then
set theQuery to (search query of viewer window 1) as string
if theQuery ≠"" then
set search query of viewer window 1 to "_"
set search query of viewer window 1 to theQuery
end if
end if
end if
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
end try
end tell
is this seriously valid applescript? AS never ceases to amaze…