Of course this script won't do anything by itself. It is not complete, it is 
just a fragment for the relevant part related to BibDesk. You have to somehow 
pass the file to the script. I don't know if and how Hazel can do that.

Christiaan

On Sep 27, 2014, at 13:06, Antonio Fortin wrote:

> Hi Christiaan,
> 
> Many thanks for that. However, when I trigger the script in Hazel, the PDF in 
> question doesn’t get added to BibDesk. I know that the rest of the rule is 
> working, because it does other things (like remove the tag).
> 
> I suspect I haven’t set it up correctly, however. I’ve attached a screenshot 
> of the rule. Does it work for you, as it is?
> 
> I’ll almost always want to import to an existing library when BibDesk is 
> already running, so I’m not worrying about the conditional statement or 
> activating BibDesk just yet.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Best,
> Antonio
> 
> <hazelBibDesk.jpg>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 Sep 2014, at 23:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 19:54, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 08:17, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> AppleScript could very well do this. But how to write that AppleScript 
>>>> really depends on how you want to use it and what you want precisely to 
>>>> do. Probably you need some AppleScript like the following (here I assume 
>>>> theFile is the file you want to add):
>>> 
>>> The same script would also work if you have BD set to open a particular 
>>> .bib file at launch, right? That would allow the OP to append new PDFs to 
>>> the same .bib database.
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, it should. Though if you want to apply this also in cases where BibDesk 
>> should launch, then you probably also want to add an "activate" command 
>> somewhere. And I can imagine there may be timing issues (i.e. it checks for 
>> the count of documents before the initial file was launched), though a quick 
>> test does seem to work.
>> 
>> Christiaan

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