[umop]

I've been trying to select a "found" context without luck. In this example, I'm selecting tree 2, but I would like to select the found "Grocery" context. Can anybody give me a pointer?

Thanks,
Eric

tell application "OmniFocus"
	
	set oContextList to contexts of first document
	set oContext to my FindContext("Grocery", oContextList)
	set cname to name of container of oContext
	tell front document to tell first document window to tell sidebar to tell library to select tree 2 
	-- of oContext
	set ttt to name of tree 2 of library of sidebar of first document window of front document
end tell


-- get a pointer to any defined context with this name
on FindContext(strName, oContexts)
	tell application "OmniFocus"
		ignoring case
			repeat with oContext in oContexts
				-- set strContextName to name of oContext
				if (name of oContext) = strName then
					return oContext
				else
					set oSubContexts to contexts of oContext
					if (count of (oSubContexts)) > 0 then
						set ContextFound to my FindContext(strName, oSubContexts)
						-- Check whether a context has in fact been found
						try
							set SomeName to name of ContextFound
							return ContextFound
						end try
					end if
				end if
			end repeat
		end ignoring
	end tell
end FindContext

[ptone]

You can take an even easier approach since you know its a descendant tree:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	first descendant tree of sidebar of document window 1 of document 1 whose name is "Grocery"
end tell

-P

[umop]

Cool! Thanks. How do I select that branch, though?

[umop]

Oh, never mind. I got it:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	select (the first descendant tree of sidebar of document window 1 of document 1 whose name is "Gym")
end tell

[Alex Brown]

you may find your script fails if the context's ancestors are folded, or if the smart filter excludes that context at the present time.

Take a look in my reveal script, elsewhere on this site, for examples.

[umop]

that's actually what my base was for this.