[Nicholas Riley]

I was writing a script that could be used as a PDF Service to add a corresponding task in OmniFocus. The main difference from other similar scripts is that it shows up in Quick Entry so I can add more information to the task.

I got most of the way fine, but ran into some issues with OmniFocus's selection model. Is there a better way to get from an item to a leaf?

This is what I've got right now, with a comment showing where I tried something that seemed more reasonable (but which didn't work):

on open _items
	local _item, _name, _task
	repeat with _item in (_items as list)
		tell application "System Events"
			set _name to _item's name
			get _item's name extension
			if (result ≠ "") then -- strip extension
				set _name to (characters 1 thru ((count _name's characters) - (count result's characters) - 1) of _name) as string
			end if
		end tell
		
		tell application "OmniFocus"
			tell front document's quick entry
				open
				set _task to (make inbox task with properties {name:_name})
				tell _task's note to make new file attachment with properties ¬
					{file name:_item's POSIX path, embedded:true}
				get _task's id
				-- get leaves whose id is result
				-- error "Can’t get id whose it = \"m75YwCmFP4l\". Access not allowed." number -1723
				repeat with _leaf in leaves
					if _leaf's id is result then
						select _leaf
						exit repeat
					end if
				end repeat
			end tell
			activate
		end tell
	end repeat
end open

[whpalmer4]

Try this as your inner bit:

	tell front document's quick entry
		open
		set _task to (make inbox task with properties {name:_name})
		tell _task's note to make new file attachment with properties ¬
			{file name:_item's POSIX path, embedded:true}
		select (leaves whose id is _task's id)
	end tell

[Nicholas Riley]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Try this as your inner bit:

	tell front document's quick entry
		open
		set _task to (make inbox task with properties {name:_name})
		tell _task's note to make new file attachment with properties ¬
			{file name:_item's POSIX path, embedded:true}
		select (leaves whose id is _task's id)
	end tell

Perfect, thanks.