Tags with comma

DEVONthink
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I have a smart rule that should assign a tag “Schmidt, Arno” to a document. But instead of the tag “Schmidt, Arno” it assigns the two tags “Schmidt” and “Arno” to the document. Any workaround besides “don’t use a comma in your tags”?

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Does it work with a backslash in front of the comma?

Bad luck that such a famous author has such a common name :frowning:

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Backslash doesn’t work. If I use it, the rule will assign the tags “Schmidt” and “Arno”.

I guess it’s a bug or at least an inconsistence, as I can assign tags with a comma inside manually but cannot by smart rule.

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You could assign Schmidt, Arno via Smart Rule script

on performSmartRule(theRecords)
	tell application id "DNtp"
		try
			repeat with thisRecord in theRecords
				set tags of thisRecord to (tags of thisRecord) & {"Schmidt, Arno"}
			end repeat
			
		on error error_message number error_number
			if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
			return
		end try
	end tell
end performSmartRule
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Hey, that did it. You’re a genius!

Thanks so much.

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this seems to be broken now with 3.8. Now I get this error:

Screenshot 2021-10-10 at 13.40.51
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Which version of macOS do you use? Seems to work fine over here.

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Big Sur 11.6.

BTW: the script runs fine as a standalone script or from Script Debugger. The error occurs only if run as an embedded script inside a smart rule.

9

I successfully tried that too. A screenshot of the rule and of the script used by the rule would be useful, thanks.

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this is weird: all of a sudden the rule works fine again. I did some verifying and file checking on the database yesterday. Maybe that helped.