Hi, I’m really new to Applescript, so I might be missing something obvious, but I’m trying to figure out how to update the note on an existing task, and even automatically mark a task as resolved. Does anyone have an example of this?
set theDate to current date
set theTask to "My Task"
set theNote to "My First Description"
tell application "OmniFocus"
tell front document
set theContext to first flattened context where its name = "My Context"
set theProject to first flattened project where its name = "My Project"
tell theProject to make new task with properties {{name:theTask, note:theNote, context:theContext}}
end tell
end tell
I use JIRA for my coding issues, and I’ve got a python app which gets my latest issues from JIRA and checks to see if they exist in OmniFocus using AppleScript, and then adds them if they’re new… but then I’m tracking the status in JIRA, and would love to find a way to feed the status back to my issues in OmniFocus!
Okay, figured it out. Didn’t realize I could open the Script Editor and open File -> Open Dictionary to see the OmniFocus structure.
Here’s what I’ve ended up using:
on run
set theDate to current date
set theTask to "My Task"
set theStatus to "Status: In Progress\n"
set theFlag to true
set theDueDate to date "10/12/2014"
set theNote to "Status: In Progress\nMy detail for the project."
set theContextName to "My Context"
set theProjectName to "My Project"
tell application "OmniFocus"
tell front document
set theContext to first flattened context where its name = theContextName
set theProject to first flattened project where its name = theProjectName
if exists (first flattened task where its name = theTask and its context = theContext) then
-- Tasks exists, update the detail if necessary
set selectedTask to first flattened task where its name = theTask
set selectedNote to the paragraphs of the note of the selectedTask
-- Overwrite the note detail if the status has changed
if (item 1 of the selectedNote is not theStatus) then
set the note of the selectedTask to theNote
end if
-- Flag task if necessary (but don't remove existing flags)
if (not flagged of the selectedTask and theFlag) then
set the flagged of the selectedTask to theFlag
end if
-- Check due date
set selectedDueDate to the the due date of the selectedTask
if (theDueDate is not missing value and theDueDate is not selectedDueDate) then
set the due date of the selectedTask to theDueDate
end if
-- Ensure task not marked as completed
if (completed of the selectedTask) then
set the completed of the selectedTask to false
end if
else
-- Add new Task
tell theProject to make new task with properties {{name:theTask, note:theNote, context:theContext}}
end if
end tell
end tell
end run
I’m in the middle of writing something very similar for my work. If you felt like sharing your code (python and/or applescript), I’d appreciate it. I’m trying to write mine with the appscript module in python. Sometimes the “guessing” of how real apple script translates to appscript is a pain, but I’m getting there.
