Hi there,
Addressbook has the lovely feature of understanding user plug-ins
(inc. applescripts) are able to register as action properties for the
"birthdate", "address", "email", and "url" fields of a contact.
This is a fantastic automation feature, as it makes field labels into
clickable buttons with powerful scripted actions (like look up
address in maps.google.com, or perform complex actions on contact
fields).
BUT, the Address Book code for the "url" field is broken (probably
when they changed it from a single "home page" property to a list of
elements.)
The problem is that "action property" which link a property
(contact field) to a roll over action in the user interface does not
accept url, instead wanting (but failing of course) to accept home
page (which doesn;'t exist anymore).
I'd like that fixed. If anyone else here would like this bug fixed,
please add a bug at bugreporter, perhaps citing "Problem ID:
4523775" so they can readily mark new bugs as duplicates and get some
priority on this scripting bug.
FYI, my bug report is below
22-Apr-2006 06:26 PM Timothy Bates:
Addressbook plug-ins are supposed to be able to register as plug-ins
for fields in AddressBook.app contacts.
This works for the action properties "age" and "address", but not for
url.
the registration handler is of the form
on action property
return "url"
end action property
variants including "URLs" and "home page" (what addressbook used to
use when URL was a property (now it is an element, capable of having
many members in the class).
An reduction that should work (but is borked) is shown in the script
below
using terms from application "Address Book"
on action property
return "url"
end action property
on action title for p with e
return "I can do stuff with URLs"
end action title
on should enable action for p with e
return true
end should enable action
on perform action for p with e
set aURL to url of e
tell application "Safari"
make new document
set URL of result to to aURL
end tell
return true
end perform action
end using terms from
04-Sep-2006 11:45 AM Timothy Bates:
It is still the case in Version 4.0.4 (485.1) that the "url" action
property is broken.
this appears to be because (if the dictionary can be believed) the
old "home page" name has been retained, despite addressbook now
supporting "urls", rather than a single "home page"
It would be great to be able to create scripts for the URLs of a
contact.
This is the current (tiger) dictionary entry:
action property v : RollOver - Which property this roll over is
associated with (Properties can be one of maiden name, phone, email,
home page, birth date, custom date, related name, aim, icq, jabber,
msn, yahoo, address.)
action property
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