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Re: AppleScripting Contacts - cannot add a person to a group
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Re: AppleScripting Contacts - cannot add a person to a group


  • Subject: Re: AppleScripting Contacts - cannot add a person to a group
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:04:10 -0500

On 06/02/2018, at 00:20, John Mitchell <email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
> I’m trying to create a Group in Contacts and add persons to it.


Hey John,

This works.

--
Take Care,
Chris

----------------------------------------------------------------
# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2014/06/07 19:33
# dMod: 2018/06/02 01:01
# Appl: Contacts
# Task: Create a new contact group with specific contacts.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Contacts, @Create, @New, @Group
----------------------------------------------------------------

tell application "Contacts"

    set contactsToAdd to people whose last name starts with "a"

    if length of contactsToAdd > 0 then

        if (group "Test_Make_New_Group" exists) = false then
            set newGroup to make new group with properties
{name:"Test_Make_New_Group"}

            tell newGroup
                save
                set selected of it to true
            end tell

            repeat with theContact in contactsToAdd
                add theContact to newGroup
            end repeat

            save newGroup

        end if
    end if

end tell

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