Hi there,
I am not using many scripts but this is the most crucial one in my daily work. I downloaded it around two years ago and the latest update of Omnifocus broke it, saying:
“OmniFocus got an error: Can’t set completed of inbox task to true.”
Omni Tech support referred to this Forum as inhabited by helpful AppleScript-wizards, who would look at my issue and will fix it in a minute. Not sure if this is true, but I’d be thankful for pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks a lot and the script is:
(*
This script marks the selected actions as complete and creates new actions in a “Waiting For” context to track replies.
by Curt Clifton
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version 1.0.2: Fixed to not lose links in note of item
version 1.0.1: Fixed to work with Mac App Store version of OmniFocus 2 Pro
version 1.0: Lots of improvements:
• Updated for OmniFocus 2.
• Uses Notification Center instead of Growl.
• Handles a Waiting context that is a sub-context, instead of just top-level contexts.
• Added a property to allow adjusting due date of created task, but made the default be no due date.
• Adds an paragraph to the new action’s note indicating when the “waiting for” task was created.
• If the selected task is already a “waiting for” task, the new task won’t have the “Reply on:” prefix added twice, but it will get another paragraph indicating when the follow-up was sent.
version 0.2: Removed Growl support
version 0.1: Original release
*)
(*
This string is matched against your contexts to find a context in which to place the new “waiting-for” action. The matching is the same as in the context column in OmniFocus, so you don’t need the entire contexxt name, just a unique fragment.
*)
property waitingForContext : “wait”
(*
This string is used as a prefix on the original item title when creating the “waiting-for” action.
*)
property waitingPrefix : "Reply on: "
(*
This string is used as a prefix for a paragraph added to the new item’s note that indicates when the original action was completed.
*)
property notePrefix : "Reminder sent on "
(*
The number of days from now that the newly created “waiting-for” action will be due. Set to a negative number to put no due date on the new action.
*)
property daysUntilDue : 2
(*
This string is used in notifications if multiple items are processed. For single items, we use the actual item title.
*)
property multipleItemsCompleted : “Multiple Items”
(*
The following properties are used for script notifications.
*)
property scriptSuiteName : “Curt’s Scripts”
set itemTitle to missing value
tell application “OmniFocus”
tell front document
– Gets target context
try
set theContextID to id of item 1 of (complete waitingForContext as context)
set theWaitingForContext to first flattened context whose id is theContextID
on error
display alert “No context found whose name contains “” & waitingForContext & “””
return
end try
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
set completed of anItem to true
-- Configure the duplicate item
set oldName to name of theDupe
if (oldName does not start with waitingPrefix) then
set name of theDupe to waitingPrefix & oldName
end if
set textToInsert to notePrefix & ((current date) as text) & return
insert textToInsert at before first character of note of theDupe
set context of theDupe to theWaitingForContext
set repetition of theDupe to missing value
if (daysUntilDue < 0) then
set due date of theDupe to missing value
else
set due date of theDupe to (current date) + 86400 * daysUntilDue
end if
end repeat
if (count of theSelectedItems) > 1 then
set itemTitle to multipleItemsCompleted
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
if itemTitle is not missing value then
my notify(“Completed and Awaiting Reply”, itemTitle)
end if
(*
Uses Notification Center to display a notification message.
theTitle – a string giving the notification title
theDescription – a string describing the notification event
*)
on notify(theTitle, theDescription)
display notification theDescription with title scriptSuiteName subtitle theTitle
end notify
