Re: Efficiently using whose on Address Book users
Re: Efficiently using whose on Address Book users
- Subject: Re: Efficiently using whose on Address Book users
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:38:53 -0800
On 2/22/04 5:16 PM, "Jeff Porten" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I'm writing a script that I want to act differently based on whether a
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user is in the Address Book. Works fine when I search for "records
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whose name is...". But as mentioned earlier this month, "records whose
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email is..." doesn't work because email returns a list rather than a
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string.
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I have this solved with a script that recurses through the entire
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address book, but as you might expect, response time is now measurable
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in 10s of seconds where it was previously instantaneous. There is
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clearly some interapplication communication that does this better -- a
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rule in Mail.app to set the color of a message from someone in my
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Address Book happens immediately.
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Is there a way of constructing a whose clause that comes up with this?
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Barring that, at least a faster way of figuring out if email X appears
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in the address book?
As we've been through before, you can actually do this easily if you give it
a specific email. But what you want was something where you could give it
just a fragment of an email address, right? If you don't, then this works
just fine:
tell application "Address Book"
try
set foundPerson to (first person where value of every email of it
contains "email@hidden")
on error
set foundPerson to missing value
end try
end tell
--> person id "6AFC3E46-0268-11D8-81B7-000A958F49D8:ABPerson" of application
"Address Book"
(That's me.) It's only where you want to go looking for "silcom.com" or
"berkowit" that you need a loop.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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