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Hi
I have a very basic understanding of applescript, but managed to get this working in Mountain Lion. It now does work in Mavericks. It fails with the above error in the compile when it gets to the underlined section (to tell sheet sName).
Please can someone help me fix my code. Please don't ask me to go read Cocoa, as I hardly knew what I was doing here.
Thanks.
set dName to "Accounts"
set sName to "Invoice"
set tName to "Table 1"
set theResult to display dialog "Would you like to attach some files to this message?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
set wantsAttachment to button returned of theResult
if wantsAttachment is equal to "Yes" then
          set theAttachment to choose file
end if
tell application "Numbers" to tell document dName to tell sheet sName to tell table tName
          set numRecords to value of cell 2 of column 3
end tell
tell application "Numbers" to tell document dName to tell sheet sName to tell table tName
          set i to 1
          repeat while (i ≤ numRecords)
                    set value of cell 1 of column 3 to i
                    set studentName to value of cell 3 of column 2
                    set balanceBF to value of cell 4 of column 2
                    set fees to value of cell 5 of column 2
                    set paid to value of cell 6 of column 2
                    set balanceCF to value of cell 7 of column 2
                    set emailAddress to value of cell 8 of column 2
  --set emailAddress to value of cell 9 of column 2
                    set invoiceDate to value of cell 2 of column 2
                    set theSubject to "Invoice for " & invoiceDate
  --set theSubject to "Exam Results 2013"
                    set theBody to "Account for " & studentName & return & "Balance b/f = " & balanceBF & return & "Fees for " & invoiceDate & " = " & fees & return & "Paid in " & invoiceDate & " = " & paid & return & "Balance due = " & balanceCF & return
  --set theBody to ""
                    tell application "Mail"
  --set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theBody, visible:true}
                              set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theBody}
                              tell newMessage to make new to recipient with properties {address:emailAddress}
                              tell application "Numbers" to activate
                              tell application "System Events"
                                        tell application process "Numbers"
                                                  click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                              tell application "Mail" to activate
                              tell application "System Events"
                                        tell application process "Mail"
                                                  click menu item "Paste" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                              if (wantsAttachment is equal to "Yes") then
                                        tell newMessage to make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachment} at after the last paragraph
                              end if
  send newMessage
                    end tell
                    set i to (i + 1)
          end repeat
end tell

Answer 1

Hi Joao888,
Nice script!
Unfortunately, Numbers 3.0 does not support AppleScript, other than the basic "GUI scripting" you can do with any application on your Mac (activate it, have it open documents, click on menu items, etc.). You can't "tell" sheets or tables the way you could in Numbers 2.3.
Let's hope Apple brings back some support for AppleScript in upgrades to version 3.  You can add your voice by requesting it here:
Meanwhile, if you need to use your AppleScript you still have your Numbers 2.3 in a folder within your Applications folder, probably named iWork '09.
SG