iterate thru all current Inbox items
 

Trying to write an Applescript that will ( in the background) iterate thru all Inbox items, and pop up Growl notifications (I have that part of the code, just need help with Omnifocus inbox part). I would schedule thru Lingon X for this run say every 5min or so.

Reason is now with Mail Drop, I have a lot of stuff hitting my OF Inbox, and would like to see some Growl'dge :-) to remind me about it.

I've seen sample code for how to get a selected item from the inbox, but not to traverse all inbox items. I understand the repeat over a list concept, I just can't figure out the lexicon to iterate over the inbox list.

To visit all the actions in the Inbox, (iterating only through the leaves, and skipping their parent group nodes, if there is any indentation), you could write, for example, something like:

[CODE]tell application id "OFOC"
tell default document
set lstInboxLeaves to flattened tasks where in inbox is true and number of tasks = 0
repeat with oTask in lstInboxLeaves
set strName to name of oTask
end repeat
end tell
end tell[/CODE]

Thanks Rob!

FWIW if you just want a textual list of the items, you can get it directly without a loop.

[CODE]property pPrefix : "- "

tell application id "OFOC"
tell default document
set {dlm, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, linefeed & pPrefix}
set strList to pPrefix & (name of flattened tasks where in inbox is true and number of tasks = 0) as string
set my text item delimiters to dlm

strList
end tell
end tell[/CODE]

(Tho by the time you are doing that you might as well use a shell command line

[CODE]sqlite3 -separator " " ~/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniFocus/OmniFocusDatabase2 '
select "-", name from task
where effectiveinInbox=1 and childrenCount=0'[/CODE]

which is faster, and doesn't require OF to be running).