On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: > Dear List, > > I guess the following problem a job for applescript: > > I need to fill in the "address" field for the publishers in my list to > cope with the modern fad for putting both the place and name of > publishers. (Not so long ago this was regarded as a waste of effort, > but I digress...) > > I need to search on the publisher field and create an address/ > location field > where it is empty. > > I don't suppose there is a neat way to create a dialog box to do this > with applescript, is there?
Not sure exactly what you'd want AppleScript to do. It cannot know what to set the Address field to. You can show dialogs and get/set fields in AppleScript. > And if so, is it possible that it could > auto-complete the publisher's names? Or is that just asking too > much...? ;-) > Auto-complete only works in the detail editor, it's not available to AppleScript. > Best wishes, > > Nicholas I think the easiest way to do this is to create a smart group that filters out all book items with an empty address, and fill in the details manually. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
