AppleScript query path to attachment

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mclearc
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AppleScript query path to attachment

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I was wondering if there is a way to query Bookends concerning the path or location of an attachment for a reference given a UUID number? Maybe something along the lines of return «event ToySRFLD» "$UUID" given string:"?"

If I put "attachment" in the string value I get the title of the entry. But I'd like the full path of the attachment, and sometimes (e.g. when the title contains a colon) the actual name of the attachment differs from the title. In any case, if the info is available in Bookends somewhere it would be great to know. thanks!
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Re: AppleScript query path to attachment

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In a format, the symbol

m

will tell Bookends to return the attachment file path. So return ref info using a format consisting only of "m" (if that's all you want).

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Re: AppleScript query path to attachment

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Hi Jon,

"m" isn't a field that I can get using "return «event ToySRFLD»" and the Bookends #id in applescript. Is there a different event value I'd use? Or is this just for format editing and not applescript? Thanks.
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Re: AppleScript query path to attachment

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Yes, you edit the format, not the AppleScript. Bookends can return results formatted any way you like (in this case, having the attachment pathname).

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Re: AppleScript query path to attachment

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Right. Finally got it working. For whatever reason, I had to make sure that the output returns without a newline. For posterity I had to do the following (my bash is pretty bad, sorry):

UUID="{query}"
REFNAME=$(/usr/bin/osascript << EOT
tell application "Bookends"
return «event ToySGUID» "$UUID" given «class RRTF»:"false", string:"attachment"
end tell
EOT)
open "$(echo "$REFNAME"|tr -d '\r')"

to get something that would reliably work. But it does! Thanks.
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