Duplicate a selected tree in AppleScript

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#1

Hello,

Here is my code in AppleScript to duplicate a selected tree in OmniFocus.

tell application "OmniFocus"
tell the front document
	tell the document window 1
		set the_selected_tree to a reference to selected tree of content
		set the_duplication to duplicate the_selected_tree
	end tell
end tell
end tell

And I got an error which says 'the Apple Event handler failed (errAEEventFailed:-10000)
What’s wrong with it?

Thanks,

#2

Is this part of a longer AppleScript? From the keyboard you can use ⌘D to duplicate any item or tree in the outline.

I borrowed some of @curt’s handy Complete and Await Reply script to provide you with a way of duplicating a selected tree. Although not being a programmer, I think OF was needing your script to tell it to recurse through the child tasks of the selected parent.

tell application "OmniFocus"
	tell the front document
		tell content of document window 1 -- (first document window whose index is 1)
			set theSelectedItems to value of every selected tree
			if ((count of theSelectedItems) < 1) then
				display alert "You must first select an item to complete." as warning
				return
			end if
			repeat with anItem in theSelectedItems
				set itemTitle to name of anItem
				set theDupe to duplicate anItem to after anItem
			end repeat
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
#3

Thanks for the reply!