I want to adapt the following script used in Omnifocus to create a folder in DT3 from a template chosen in a dialogue. The folder has the name of the OF project and the tag ‘Hookmark’.
set thePath to "/Users/david/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/Templates.noindex"
tell application "System Events"
set templateList to {name, POSIX path} of every disk item of folder thePath
end tell
tell application id "DNtp"
set theTitle to "$title"
set theTemplate to choose from list templateList's item 2
set theFilingGroup to get record at "/1 Projects" in database "Project Support"
set newItem to import template (theTemplate as string) to theFilingGroup
set name of newItem to theTitle
set theTag to "Hookmark"
set tags of newItem to theTag
set refURL to reference URL of newItem
set itemPath to path of newItem
end tell
open location refURL
get refURL
This seems to work well, but as I only want to use the same template every time, I’d like to remove the block listing all the available templates and simply code the required template directly in. The template’s path is ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/Templates.noindex/New project.dtTemplate.
What’s the simplest method of doing this, please?
I thought that as the original code seems to be using a string (theTemplate) I could remove the preliminary code and just hard code the path of the template in.
set newItem to import template "/Users/<me>/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/Templates.noindex/New Project.dtTemplate" to theFilingGroup
It doesn’t work, though, and OF’s script window doesn’t give any feedback.
You enter it into the Hookmark Preferences > Script ‘New Item’ panel for Devonthink as a replacement for the default script, so presumably Hookmark adds the handlers behind the scenes.
Do you really have <me> in your path in the script or did you put it there for “privacy”? And did you try running the script in Script Editor? That’s usually the first place to go if something is not working as desired – there, you can follow script execution and see what goes wrong.
Aside: It would be more helpful to post the script code as code, instead of a screenshot.
Sorry, that’s an editing error from trying to recreate the screenshot for you in too much haste…
The actual code which doesn’t work is:
tell application id "DNtp"
set theTitle to "$title"
set theFilingGroup to get record at "/1 Projects" in database "Project Support"
set newItem to import template "/Users/<me>/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/Templates.noindex/New Project.dtTemplate" to theFilingGroup
set name of newItem to theTitle
set theTag to "Hookmark"
set tags of newItem to theTag
set refURL to reference URL of newItem
set itemPath to path of newItem
end tell
open location refURL
get refURL
I changed it for the screenshot: the actual version has my username… Is the syntax correct other than that, or am I misunderstanding how import template should work?
Trying it in ScriptEditor would mean I’d have to work out what to do with $title and get $RefURL. Much simpler to take the version that works in Hookmark and adapt it…
But thanks for the confirmation of the exact syntax: I appreciate your help!
Nope. If everything runs fine up to this point, i.e. up to and including the end tell, then you know that the part concerning DT is working ok. And Script Editor is the only tool pre-installed that you can use to debug AppleScript.
You could, if you’d like to, print out refURL, just to make sure that it’s fine.
That’s the sort of thing that’s obvious to the skilled and experienced, and not at all clear to anyone else, I’m afraid. I shall know better next time, if there is one.
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