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Re: Setting 'group' for person in Address Book....


  • Subject: Re: Setting 'group' for person in Address Book....
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:02:04 -0700


On May 23, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:

In addition, David wanted to _change_ a group, not just add one, but remove
the previous one(s). That can be done like this:


tell application "Address Book"
    set currentGroups to every group of person "Sharon Steiner"
    repeat with i from 1 to (count currentGroups)
        set currentGroup to item i of currentGroups
        remove person "Sharon Steiner" from currentGroup
    end repeat
    add person "Sharon Steiner" to group "Family"
end tell

This works also:

tell application "Address Book"
    set the_person to person "Sharon Steiner"
    remove the_person from the_person's groups
    add the_person to group "Family"
end tell

But this doesn't:

tell application "Address Book"
    set currentGroups to every group of person "Sharon Steiner"
    remove person "Sharon Steiner" from currentGroups
    add person "Sharon Steiner" to group "Family"
end tell

--> "Address Book got an error: You can only remove a person from a group."

In the first, it's dealing directly with the elements, whereas in the second it's trying to remove the person from a list.

There's a grammatical error in the error message, though. It should be "You can remove a person only from a group."

-- Michelle

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