On Nov 20, 2013, at 12:35, Barry Wainwright < email@hidden> wrote: What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
I want to search for a contact and either view or edit it. Rather than using the GUI toy search, can’t you simply filter for the name (or whatever you are trying to locate) using applescript directly?
I think not.
I usually use LaunchBar to look up contacts on the Mac, and I resort to the Contacts app when I need to perform edits.
It ticks me off that there's no convenient means to quickly search-all.
I want to fire up the app with LaunchBar, use a keyboard shortcut to select search-all (if not already selected), do my search, perform my task, and be done.
You can type "Cmd-F Tab Tab Tab" to get into the groups panel and then type-select to pick a group, BUT this fails if the group selected when Contacts is launched doesn't have a card selected (surely a bug).
This is poor UI in both consistency and usability; the most common job for the Contacts app is looking up and using a contact.
What I've done for the time being is to perform a click with Keyboard Maestro next to the 'All Contacts' category (inexplicably not included in the group class). That lets me type-select to pick any group in the list and/or type Cmd-F to begin my search.
It works, but brute-forcing the UI is always clunkier than scripting (when scripting works).
-- Best Regards, Chris
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