I’d appreciate some help with a script I’ve been working on for some time:
What I’m trying to achieve:
I want the handler sortRecordUsingMetadata to sort records into the parent tags DocType, Source and Regarding based on the input. Input arguments are:
tagNameToMove of data type string is the name of the tag to be moved, if needed.
parentTag of data type string is the name of the parent tag to receive tagNameToMove as a child
theRecord of data type record is the record where the tag with name tagNameToMove should be or have been applied.
In order to do so, I want to supply the record to be sorted, i.e. theRecord, which in this case is a document. I want to look at the tags of theRecord and determine which ones are ordinary tags in order not to move parent tags (group tags).
I then want to determine if the tag tagNameToMove is already a child of parentTag.
What my problems are:
I cannot seem to get the parent of aTag as string, with the error: “name of parent of item 1 of {item 2 of every parent of content id 107314 of database id 10, item 3 of every parent of content id 107314 of database id 10, item 4 of every parent of content id 107314 of database id 10}”
What (likely many things) am I missing here?
tell application id "DNtp"
if selection is {} then
-- if no selection is made, process all records of the database
set recordList to every record of current database
-- If a selection is made, process selected records
else if selection is not {} then
set recordList to selection as list
end if
set theRecord to item 1 of recordList
sortRecordUsingMetadata("villkor", "DocType", theRecord) of me
end tell
-- Handler used by sortRecord(theRecord) in order to clean up code and facilitating readability and maintenance within this handler
on sortRecordUsingMetadata(tagNameToMove, parentTag, theRecord)
(*
input tagNameToMove of data type string is the name of the tag to be moved.
parentTag of data type string is the name of the parent tag to receive tagNameToMove as a child
theRecord of data type record is the record where the tag with name tagNameToMove should be applied.
output none. Handler sorts.
*)
tell application id "DNtp"
-- find the ordinary tags of theRecord (not the folders where theRecord is residing and not a group tag - i.e. not a parent tag)
-- theTagList is a list of records, which are tags
set theTagList to {}
repeat with aTag in parents of theRecord
if tag type of aTag is ordinary tag then
set the end of theTagList to aTag
end if
end repeat
end tell
get theTagList
repeat with aTag in theTagList
-- Try to find tagNameToMove in theTagList, data type string in the name of aTag
if name of aTag as string = tagNameToMove then
set tempTag to item 1 of aTag
-- If name of parent tag of aTag is parentTag, data type string, then the tag does not need to be moved and the handler is done
if name of parent of aTag as string = parentTag then
display dialog "The record is already in the right place"
return
end if
else
-- Move the tag using handler moveTagInDatabase(tagNameToMove, parentTag, theRecord)
return
end if
-- Other conditions and commands TBD
end repeat
end sortRecordUsingMetadata
You’re trying to specify a parent outside the tell block for DEVONthink. That can’t work as it’s a property of DEVONthink.
The end of the script would be…
end repeat
end tell
end sortRecordUsingMetadata
Also, you can’t specify parent of… since a record can have multiple parents (e.g., in the case of replicants).
You need to specify parent n of…, typically parent 1 unless otherwise required for the situation.
I’ve found out that I need to remove the tag from the record in case it has an incorrect parent. I know I can set the tags of a record using a list of strings, like so:
tell theRecord to set tags to ("tag1","tag2")
But since I potentially can have the same name for tags with different parents, this seemed uncertain. I instead wanted to dissociate the tag with an incorrect parent from theRecord. I’ve therefore instead tried to tell theRecord to delete its parent aTag using:
tell theRecord to delete parent aTag
But I need to ask for help again, please. What am I doing wrong this time?
Below, the runnable script:
use scripting additions
tell application id "DNtp"
if selection is {} then
-- if no selection is made, process all records of the database
set recordList to every record of current database
-- If a selection is made, process selected records
else if selection is not {} then
set recordList to selection as list
end if
set theRecord to item 1 of recordList
sortRecordUsingMetadata("villkor", "DocType", theRecord) of me
end tell
-- Handler used by sortRecord(theRecord) in order to clean up code and facilitating readability and maintenance within this handler
on sortRecordUsingMetadata(tagNameToMove, parentTag, theRecord)
(*
input tagNameToMove of data type string is the name of the tag to be moved.
parentTag of data type string is the name of the parent tag to receive tagNameToMove as a child
theRecord of data type record is the record where the tag with name tagNameToMove should be applied. (Not working and non-working code removed 2020-03-21)
output none. Handler sorts.
*)
tell application id "DNtp"
-- find the ordinary tags of theRecord (not the folders where theRecord is residing and not a group tag - i.e. not a parent tag)
-- theTagList is a list of records, which are tags
set theTagList to {}
repeat with aTag in parents of theRecord
if tag type of aTag is ordinary tag then
set the end of theTagList to aTag
end if
end repeat
get theTagList
repeat with aTag in theTagList
-- Try to find tagNameToMove in theTagList, data type string in the name of aTag
if name of aTag as string = tagNameToMove then
-- If name of parent tag of aTag is parentTag, data type string, then the tag does not need to be moved and the handler is done
if name of parent 1 of aTag as string = parentTag then
-- The tag tagNameToMove has the correct parent. It does not have to be moved.
display dialog "The record is already in the right place"
return
else
-- The parent of the tag is incorrect - remove the tag from the record
tell theRecord to delete parent aTag
return
end if
else
--
end if
end repeat
end tell
end sortRecordUsingMetadata
I originally posted this in another thread by mistake.
set theTagList to {}
repeat with aTag in parents of theRecord
if tag type of aTag is ordinary tag then
set the end of theTagList to aTag
end if
end repeat
with this?
set theTagList to parents of theRecord whose tag type is ordinary tag
Thanks again, ngan, also works very well. I now remember reading that post. I fail to understand why my approach was unsuccessful, but regardless, this problem is now solved!
