Re: [Bibdesk-users] AppleScript: parse format

[Christiaan Hofman]

On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi,

I jsut wanted to use a snippet from AutogenerateLinkedURLScriptHook
for, well, creating a URL from PubMed (see my script below). It seems
the 'parse format' verb doesn't work (anymore) as in the sample.
(a) even in a 'tell thePub' block, an explicit 'for field "Url" of
thePub' is needed else AppleScript will complain of an error 5; but

That's an error in the script, I fixed it in the linked script on the  
wiki.

even worse
(b) the formated string will only be 
'http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?blobtype=pdf&artid='
, i.e. the %f{Pmid} part will not be replaced (yes, my publication has
the Pmid field, the script would've stopped before otherwise)


Apparently digits are considered invalid in URL fields. That's wrong,  
I'll have it fixed in the next nightly.

am I doing something wrong here? I'm using 1.3.21 (1525).

Thanks,
jonas


Thanks,
Christiaan





property theFormatString : 
"http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?blobtype=pdf&artid=
%f{Pmid}"
property theRequiredFields : {"Pmid"}

tell application "BibDesk"
        -- without documents there is no selection, so nothing to do
        if (count of documents) = 0 then
                beep
                display dialog "No documents found." buttons {"•"} default 
button 1
giving up after 3
        end if
        set thePublications to selection of document 1  
        repeat with thePub in thePublications
                tell thePub
                        -- check that we can generate the URL
                        set canGenerate to true
                        repeat with theField in theRequiredFields
                                if (value of field theField is "") then ¬
                                        set canGenerate to no
                        end repeat
                        if canGenerate then
                                -- generate a new value for the field, we use the 
"Url" field as a
dummy
                                set newValue to parse format theFormatString for field 
"Url" of
thePub
                                if (newValue is not "") and (newValue is not in 
(get linked URLs))
then ¬
                                        add newValue to end of linked URLs
                        end if
                        
                end tell
        end repeat
end tell

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