Simple Address Book script help request

Question

I want an AppleScript to enter a single value in the 'Note' field for each record/contact in a certain group.
I wrote this:
tell application "Address Book"
repeat with allcontacts in group "Health"
set NewNote to "doctor"
set value of note to NewNote
end repeat
end tell
It compiles and seems to run OK. But nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
(I wish I knew AS better Thanks!)
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Answer 1

Hi Mark you have the right idea, but you are slightly off..
The biggest problem is in your loop. Like I said you do have the right idea though. When your looping with x in y "Y" must actually be a list of things, so in your case you need to build a list of all the contacts in group "Health" first.
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tell application "Address Book"
set allContacts to every person in group "Health"
repeat with singleContact in allContacts
set singleContact's note to ((get singleContact's note) & return & "doctor" as string)
end repeat
end tell
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So as you can hopefully see first we build a list of the person entries contained in group "Health" then we step through that list.
Also in my example we are preserving the contents of what may already exist in the note field rather then overwriting it.
Hope that helps!