Slow down, I’m not asking the script to do anything illogical and perverse.
My scenario is this: when I fire up the script, the search string defaults to the last contact I searched for, and it automatically includes her entire title and name. I have not gone out of my way to include the title—the script does this by automatically. But that’s fine--so far, so good. However, if I press <return> at this point, the script can’t open that contact until I delete the title or retype her name without the title. Logically, from the user’s point of view, if I go with the default, I should get that contact opened. Instead I get an error.
That’s what didn’t make sense.
Now, if it is impractical to implement, I can understand that. But your solutions below are downright confusing.
Ah, if it’s a buglet, that’s a different matter. I wish you had said so at the beginning, and sorry for sounding off. I’ll look into it. I’ve probably written about 25 scripts since that one and can’t remember all the details. You didn’t mention anything about the default (which I’d forgotten about), and there are several ways of starting the search, including entering some letters, not just the selection procedure. The solution will probably be to remove the title from the default: that will be a lot easier. I’m sorry if I was unclear, but the whole point was that it was indeed too difficult to incorporate a [possible, not always present] title in the search , particularly because it comes at the beginning, before the name. It should be a simple matter to remove the title. I’ll get back to you on this very soon.
Please, everyone: if something is not working as it should in one of my scripts, or as you’d like, I really would like to hear about it. But I’d appreciate a careful step-by-step explanation of what you did, and what didn’t go right. I’d also appreciate hearing privately: my email address is in every ReadMe and almost every script.
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Paul Berkowitz
