Dear Christiaan,
Thanks for your attempt to help, greatly appreciated.
First problem: You can't write 'file aPath' in a script. The "file"
type in AppleScript is very buggy. It generally should be considered
read-only. When you want to create a file object you should use either
"POSIX file" or "file specification", I always use the former. This is
not a BibDesk bug, it's an AppleScript bug (it does not work in any app).
Ok, indeed, AppleScript is terrible in this respect. But what type of
file specification does the export command want? And save is happy with
what I tried to do, so the generality of your statement is not always
given either. BTW, I tried all forms, as file reference, as alias, as
POSIX file, but none of these seems to work. But whatever, all is fine
with me as long as I would know what to do, i.e. what does export want?
A file reference of an open file? An alias to an open file? Then I would
need to create it first or a POSIX file to a not yet existing file,
which export then will open itself? Would you perhaps know?
And whether SE can /compile/ a script does not mean it can /execute/ a
command, because compiling does not check the implementation of the
various apps and extensions.
Sure.
Second problem: Did you define a template named "EndNote XML" the
Template prefs? Because there does not exist one by default.
Yes, but I tried several variants, since BibDesk has AFAIK one file
format called "EndNote XML" built in and offered for exporting via GUI.
I tried that one as well, the one the "Save" commands is happy with.
Mine is called "My EndNote XML". I tested the latter by giving it to the
save command and it worked fine. Only export never works.
Third problems: "list thePubs" is not a valid reference, just evaluate
thePubs or use "get" to get them if it does not work directly.
Ok. Thanks. But statements such as
set theOutFileID to open for access file theOutPFN with write permission
set eof theOutFileID to 0
tell application "BibDesk"
set theBibDeskDocu to first document
set thePubs to selection of theBibDeskDocu
export theBibDeskDocu to theOutFileID using template "My EndNote
XML" for (get list thePubs)
end tell
close access theOutFileID
fails also miserably with error Can't get list {publications id
"bdskidentifier://E99D..." of document "SomeRefs.bib"
There might be an alternative approach by using a custom template
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"? >
<xml>
<records>
<$publications><$endNoteString/></$publications>
</records>
</xml>
and then using the first AppleScript
save theBibDeskDocu in file theOutPFN as "My EndNote XML"
Having installed in the "Template" preference of BibDesk above
template as the main page under "My EndNote XML" for xml files. Above
template works fine, but again, it exports all records. AFAIK I would
need a "Collection modifier key" to export only the selection. Yet,
BibDesk's help on this topic does no list any. Does anyone know
whether it is possible to specify via above template such that only
currently selected publications are exported? An if this is possible,
does anyone know how the syntax of such a modification of this
template would look like?
The save command always saves the whole document. That's what it is
supposed to do. The "save" command is a standard command. Though it
may be possible to change the template to only export the selection,
it would be the wrong thing to do.
Why, if this is the only thing that might be possible or do you see a
way how I could get the command export to do what I want?
Thanks for your help and cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
Andreas Fischlin
You should just use the "export" command, passing the template you
wrote above.
Ok I go along that route. However, note, before writing this reply I
already tried another dozen variants and got none to work either (see
one example above). If you know of any single variant in which the
export command works, I would be very happy to learn about. Thanks.
You can pass the template either as an explicit string ('using text'),
by file reference, or (when you've registered it) by name.
I have registered it, thus I tried by file reference the following legal
AppleScript statements
export theBibDeskDocu to theOutFileID using text "My EndNote XML"
for (list thePubs)
export theBibDeskDocu to theOutFileID using template "My EndNote
XML" for (list thePubs)
export theBibDeskDocu to file theOutFileID using text "My EndNote
XML" for (list thePubs)
export theBibDeskDocu to file theOutFileID using template "My
EndNote XML" for (list thePubs)
but all fail, because the export command seems not to understand the
file reference, since I get errors such as: BibDesk got an error: Cant
make 53 into type file specifier or can't make 75 into type reference
although I understand the first two to be exactly what you recommended.
Thus, I don't know how to accomplish this. BTW, I have tried about two
dozens of formulations and none worked. It's a pity, since I expect this
command to use really a lot. To open a new BibDesk document, then drag
and drop just the publications I want to export, then export them all,
then trow away that document seems to me to be really quite combersome,
given there is command export (which seems not to work). If you know of
any variant in which export works, I'm happy to start thinking
differently. Thanks.
Regards,
Andreas
Christiaan
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