Issues with hooking on to AppleScript pop-up menu

Questions & Suggestions
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I am having difficulty with a timed macro I’m trying to create and hoped someone might have the answer. I’m trying to automate some of my Omnifocus routine lists bases on time, using the templates.scpt applescript. I have everything, but one piece set up. Keyboard maestro doesn’t seem to recognize the applescript pop-up menu that templates.scpt generates for me to choose the template. I tried using menu item, but the macro gets all the way to the applescript menu part and then stops.

Any suggestions on how to hook on to this menu?

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Hey There,

Do you mean an AppleScript choose-from dialog?

The way to handle that is to make sure Omnifocus is frontmost and make sure the choose-from is wrapped in a tell application "Omnifocus" block.

set myChooseFromList to {"one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six"}

tell application "Omnifocus"
  set myChoice to choose from list myChooseFromList with title ¬
    "This is a Choose-From Dialog" with prompt ¬
    "Pick One:" default items {item 1 of myChooseFromList} ¬
    multiple selections allowed true ¬
    without empty selection allowed
end tell

-Chris

3

Much appreciated! I will try this out. I’m new with keyboard maestro and didn’t know if I was going to have to script that or not. Thank you so much!

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I actually didn’t write the script and it’s pretty large. I tried to implement what you are saying, but I’m not sure if I need to modify the original script or create a brand new one. The current script creates a choose-from dialog that’s populated by whatever is in a folder in Omnifocus with the name “Template”. When the script is executed, depending on what you have in the notes section it triggers a series of choose-from dialogs. I still can’t figure out how to select from these.

I’m considering just writing something with JXA to do it because I know JavaScript, however I think this should be much more straightforward. I don’t want to alter the AppleScript because I didn’t write it and don’t know AppleScript so well and fear breaking it.

5

Send me the script and your macro, and I'll take a look.

kmforum@thestoneforge.com

-Chris

6

Thanks Chris. Will do.