[OS X TeX] Scripting help

["M. Tamer Özsu"]

Thank you Michael, much appreciated.

==Tamer

> On Jul 23, 2023, at 12:04 PM, Michael Sharpe via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> If you change the block
> 
>> if (theField is not "") then
>> repeat with thePub in thePublications
>> set theField of thePub to theValue
>> end repeat
>> end if
> 
> to 
> 
> if (theField is not "") then
> repeat with thePub in thePublications
> tell thePub
> set the value of field theField to theValue
> end tell
> end repeat
> end if
> 
> then it seems to work.
> 
> Michael
> 
>> On Jul 21, 2023, at 11:04 AM, M. Tamer Özsu via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu <mailto:macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Some of the bibtex entries I download has entries in them that I don't want to keep, e.g., Month. I thought I would write a script that takes the Field Name and a Value and sets that field to that value. I came up with the following but it is throwing an error -- it reads the field name and the value but then gives an error: "AppleScript reported the following error: (null)". I suspect it is a simple fix, but I don't know scripting well enough. I would appreciate any suggestions.
>> 
>> tell application "BibDesk"
>> activate
>> 
>> -- without document, there is no selection, so nothing to do
>> if (count of documents) = 0 then
>> beep
>> display dialog "No documents found." buttons {"•"} default button 1 giving up after 3
>> end if
>> set thePublications to the selection of document 1
>> 
>> set theField to text returned of (display dialog "Enter field to set:" default answer "")
>> set theValue to text returned of (display dialog "Enter value to set:" default answer "")
>> 
>> if (theField is not "") then
>> repeat with thePub in thePublications
>> set theField of thePub to theValue
>> end repeat
>> end if
>> 
>> set selection of document 1 to thePublications
>> 
>> end tell -- Bibdesk
>> 
>> 
>> ==Tamer
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