[Tiny Clanger]

I'm trying to write an Applescript to run daily at 8am, which will bring OmniFocus to the front with the Due Soon perspective showing. However, this script activates OF but does not change the displayed perspective:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	activate
	tell the default document to tell the front document window to set the perspective name to "Due Soon"
end tell

There is no error shown. Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

[Craig]

Do you need "end tells" for all those "tells"?

[Tiny Clanger]

Originally Posted by Craig

Do you need "end tells" for all those "tells"?

Shouldn't do for a single-line statement: that's only necessary on multiple lines.

I've tried it in the other form, and it still doesn't work, so that's not it in any case :)

[gfloro]

It doesn't seem to work with the "canned" perspectives, but DOES work with my custom perspectives. I'm no AppleScripter, but I'll keep digging..

[Tiny Clanger]

Thanks — I've cloned the Due Soon perspective and called it Imminent, and the script invokes that just fine.

But what a strange way for OF to behave :)

[Greg Jones]

I'm not a programmer, but I'd suspect that the script does not work with the built-in views because they are internally different from the Perspectives that you can create or clone from a built-in view.