[davidamis]

How do you get the select command to work? I was writing a script to list all projects/SALs/groups without a default context, and got to the last step of letting the user go to a particular item, and can't get it to work: OmniFocus says project id blah of document id blah doesn’t understand the select message. I wrote some sample code for testing the select command in many combinations:

tell application "OmniFocus"
	set firstProject to project 1 of document 1
	--		result: project id "pbV93_WpDMx" of document id "mHxuR5tEH1i"
	set fpID to id of firstProject
	--		result: "pbV93_WpDMx"
	set fpClass to class of firstProject
	--		result: project
	display dialog fpID
	
	select firstProject
	--Error: project id "pbV93_WpDMx" of document id "mHxuR5tEH1i" doesn’t understand the select message.
	--All of the following produce a similar error:
	select {firstProject}
	tell document window 1 to select {firstProject}
	tell content of document window 1 to select {firstProject}
	tell front document
		activate
		select {project id fpID}
		select firstProject
		select (firstProject)
		select every item of {firstProject}
		tell content of window 1 to select firstProject
		tell content of window 1 to select {firstProject}
		tell content of window 1 to select every item of {firstProject}
	end tell
end tell

Any ideas?
Thanks,
David

[Brian]

OmniGraphSketcher release has kept me pretty busy, but David emailed us this week; I figured I'd post the useful bits of my reply here so other folks can find this in the future...

Happy to help, and thanks for sending this in. Showed your email to the lead developer, who sent this back:

AS is funny. If you do "foo bar" then you are sending the command "foo"
to "bar" and in this case "project" doesn't handle "select".
See "close SomeWindow"; the window gets the command.
Wrapping foo in a list makes it not be considered and the receive of
the "tell" block gets it instead.

He sent along this script as an example:

tell application "OmniFocus 1.7"
tell default document
set MyProject1 to first project
tell front document window
tell sidebar -- or "tell content"
select {MyProject1}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

[davidamis]

Thanks for the help, that solved it. Select certainly is picky. I rewrote the sample with some additional explanation, and added selecting an action. If you only want to select a project or folder, leave out the 'tell content' block.

NOTE: code assumes there is a task in a project that is directly in the Library (not in a folder).

tell application "OmniFocus"
	tell default document
		-- example: get a reference to an action (task in Applescript) and its parent project
		set project1 to first project whose status is active
		set task1 to task 1 of project1 whose completed is false
		
		tell front document window
			-- The parent project of an action (task) must be selected before you can select the action.
			tell sidebar -- to select a project or folder, you must tell the sidebar
				select {project1} --must be a list
			end tell
			tell content -- to select an action, you must tell the content
				select {task1} --must be a list
				--The focus may be on the sidebar or the content, select doesn't change it.
				--The following should change focus to the content area:
				set selected to true -- bug in OmniFocus: doesn't work
			end tell
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

The bug that you can't get or set the selected property of the content or sidebar of a window is also shown.

I wrote OFSelectAny() to make it easier to select:
http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=11886