Adding a line
“tell thePub to auto file”
before the last two end tells should do it.
On 27 Sep, 2014, at 08:41, Antonio Fortin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Okay, I’ve managed to get things working, more or less. I mistakenly thought
> the script was doing nothing, because nothing would happen visibly and, then,
> searching for the papers I was trying to add in BibDesk would find nothing.
> However, I tried the following, and it also selects the new paper:
>
> `
> set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
> set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
> tell application "BibDesk"
> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
> tell front document
> set thePub to make new publication
> add newPDF to thePub
> select thePub
> end tell
> end tell
> `
>
> There’s one more thing I’d like the script (or BibDesk) to do at the end, and
> that’s to either move or copy the linked PDF into the BibDesk papers folder.
> I’ve set the location for BibDesk to file papers, and I’ve also set it to
> file papers automatically (see attachment), but this doesn’t happen. The PDF
> remains in the location I saved it in.
>
> <screenshot.png>
>
> Thanks for your help with this Christiaan!
>
> Best,
> Antonio
>
> PS. I have no idea what the MS Office-related BibDesk errors were about, but
> they’re not happening any more.
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 16:40, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 15:32, Antonio Fortin wrote:
>>
>>> On 27 Sep 2014, at 14:20, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 14:07, Antonio Fortin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Hazel rule I have does exactly that. I’ve tried running the script on
>>>>> its own, specifying an actual PDF rather than `theFile` (see below), and
>>>>> nothing happened.
>>>>>
>>>>> `
>>>>> tell application "BibDesk"
>>>>> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
>>>>> tell front document
>>>>> set thePub to make new publication
>>>>> add "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" to thePub -- replace with path to your
>>>>> own PDF
>>>>> end tell
>>>>> end tell
>>>>> `
>>>>>
>>>>> —Antonio
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's a string, not a file object. You need to convert it to a file. So
>>>> something like
>>>>
>>>> POSIX file "/MBA/Users/antonio/foo.pdf"
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> alias "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf"
>>>>
>>>> (file "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" should work in theory but does not work
>>>> in practice.)
>>>>
>>>> That does work for me.
>>>
>>> This *should* do it, right?
>>>
>>> `
>>> set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
>>> set newPDF to POSIX file of posixPath
>>
>> set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
>>
>> (leave out the "of")
>>
>>> tell application "BibDesk"
>>> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
>>> tell front document
>>> set thePub to make new publication
>>> add newPDF to thePub
>>> end tell
>>> end tell
>>> `
>>>
>>> However, it doesn’t. Console shows a few BibDesk errors whenever I execute
>>> this script, but they have to do with MS Office and Spotlight. It looks
>>> like this is what’s causing the problem, but I have no idea how to go about
>>> fixing it.
>>>
>>
>> That's strange. What errors? It seems their dictionary are messing up the
>> language. that is actually far too common with AppleScript (one reason why
>> it's such a failure of a language.) Though it should not do this here, as
>> it's all in a "tell application "BibDesk"" block. Perhaps there are
>> scripting extensions in your ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions from those apps?
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>>> Oh well, I’ll keep looking. Thanks for your help, Christiaan. If you have
>>> any ideas on how to fix this problem, I’d love to hear them.
>>>
>>> —Antonio
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On 27 Sep 2014, at 13:52, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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