On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Christiaan > Hofman<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > At 600 qualifying volumes, I was looking for a faster way... ;-) > > N
Well, really the hard part is: how would a script know WHICH address to fill in? Unless you have some very simple situation, you need a human mind for that. The problem I have with your question is: what part do you need help with, and what does your data look like? As I don't have that information, so I just assume the most general situation, which is just hard. 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
