This Applescript will correct links & programs for posting

Question

Since I have been posting to these forms, I have been annoyed by the conversions that are done to my posts. A word surrounded by asterisks gets bolded. When I decide to make a link to a post, I can never remember the exact format. When I posted AppleScript code, I found that it is squish to the left. The AppleScript I have posted here gets around these problems.
Robert
The first thing that you need to do is to make the text into an AppleScript program.
start the AppleScript Editor
/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app
copy the text to the Applescript editor.
save the text to a file as an application and do not check any of the boxes below.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/3390737677_645a847e28.jpg?v=0!
now, let's build a link to a post.
get the link to a reply.
Goto this Webpage:
http://discussions.apple.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=9003196
Copy the Web page address from the top of your Web browser page. This is the standard highlight the address then do a command+c
Now you should run my AppleScript program by going back to the Script Editor. Optional, click the words event log to see the debug information. Click on the run icon.
!http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3423/3391549168_9ce8b6fcd9.jpg?v=0!
The link has been modified. Paste the link onto your Web page. This is the standard command+v.
For a more typical usage, placed the program on the dock or make an alias on the desktop.
Robert
Name: alter-clipboard
Input: Clipboard
Output: Clipboard
This AppleScript program is designed to convert a forum-reply web address  to a link to a forum post, to convert special characters to their HTML symbols, and to convert programming language code to a  form that does not get mangled.
1)   When you wish to reference another Apple discussion forum post, I found the process convoluted.  The Apple form software does not provide for the display of a form post link.  Instead, you must  construct the link from a reply post.  This AppleScript simplifies the process.
  When the clipboard contains a link to a forum reply page, do the conversion.
  Here is that way:
  a) Find the particular post you wish to reference.  
  b) Click on the reply icon.  
  c) Copy  the Web address to the clipboard  (command+c).  
  d) Run this AppleScript to convert the Web address.  
  e) Paste (command+v) the converted Web address into your post.
   For example, you:  
   • Want to reference a post on how to improve the performance of Tiger.  You find a post by Texas Mac Man with a list of possibilities.  
   • Click on the Reply option and highlight the Web address because you know the address contains a reference to this post.
   • Type command+c to copy the address to the clipboard.  The clipboard now contains:
     http://discussions.apple.com/post!reply.jspa?messageID=9124252
   •  Run this AppleScript to convert the Web address. The clipboard now contains:   
           http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9124252#9124252
   • Type command+v to paste the address   into your new post.
2)  Assume that the clipboard contains  special symbols or formated programming language code to convert.  
  The simpleFormatting property switch in the code selects teletype text ( tt ) when true and selets preformated text ( pre ) when false.      
  This AppleScript will converted special symbols used in these forums to a form not used by the forum software in order to preserve the original characters.
  For the symbols, see:
  See "Other formating tags are available as shown below" in
  http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa#format
  An alternative to using these symbols is document in this post:
  http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607563
  Also, this AppleScript preserves indentation used in programs or Terminal output.
  a) Copy  the text to the clipboard .  
  b) Run this AppleScript to convert the text
  c) Paste the converted text into your post.
  For example,  the asterisks will be preserved:
     mac $ ls *oup*
     Youpi Key Editor.plist  Youpi Key.app alias  
  For example,  the indentation will be preserved:
     on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving dropped_items
        repeat with dropped_item_ref in dropped_items
           display dialog "dropped files is " & dropped_item_ref
        end repeat
     end adding folder items to
  Author: rccharles
  Copyright 2009 rccharles
  GNU General Public License
   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation,  version 3
   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.
   For a copy of the GNU General Public License see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
property simpleFormatting : true -- when true use tt tag to enclose; when false use pre tab to enclose
on run
  -- Write a message into the event log.
  log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
  set theClip to the clipboard
  if length of theClip > 33 and characters 1 thru 33 of theClip as string = "http://discussions.apple.com/post" then
       http://discussions.apple.com/post&#033;reply.jspa?messageID=9003196
   convert to:
       http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9003196&#035;9003196
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "post!reply", "message")
     set {frontPart, postNumber} to textToList(theClip, "=")
     set theClip to theClip & "#" & postNumber
  else
     --  see http://www.asciitable.com/ for the ASCII translations
     -- must be the first change so as not to cause problems.
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "#", "&#035;")
     --  You need to use either the numeric form of the HTML symbol or
     --  translate HTML character enties as seen below.
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "&amp;", "&amp;amp;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, " ", "&amp;nbsp;")
     -- Preserve blanks
     -- converts two spaces to a space and non-breaking space
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "  ", "  ")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "!", "&#033;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "[", "&#091;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "]", "&#093;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "<", "&#060;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "*", "&#042;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "+", "&#043;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "_", "&#095;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "--", "&#045;&#045;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, tab, "   ")
     -- suggested by red_menace from the Mac forums
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "-", "&#45;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "^", "&#94;")
     set theClip to alterString(theClip, "~", "&#126;")
     if simpleFormatting then
        set theClip to "<tt>" & theClip & "</tt>"
     else
        set theClip to addWrapper(theClip)
     end if
  end if
  set the clipboard to theClip
end run
on alterString(thisText, delim, replacement)
  set resultList to {}
  set {tid, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, delim}
  try
     set resultList to every text item of thisText
     set text item delimiters to replacement
     set resultString to resultList as string
     set my text item delimiters to tid
  on error
     set my text item delimiters to tid
  end try
  return resultString
end alterString
-- textToList was found here:
-- http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=15423
on textToList(thisText, delim)
  set resultList to {}
  set {tid, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, delim}
  try
     set resultList to every text item of thisText
     set my text item delimiters to tid
  on error
     set my text item delimiters to tid
  end try
  return resultList
end textToList
-- suggested by red_menace from the Mac forums
-- some constants and switches
property TextColor : "#000000" -- black  (see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref&#095;colornames.asp)
property BackgroundColor : "#FFEE80" -- medium/canary yellow -- "#FFDDFF" -- a light plum/purple
property BorderColor : "#000000" -- black
property TheWidth : "width: 720px; " -- a width attribute
property UseWidth : true -- use the width attribute?
property LineCount : 25 -- the number of lines before including the height attribute
property TheHeight : "height: " & ((LineCount * 13.6) as integer) & "px; " -- a (rough) maximum height for the formatted box
on addWrapper(SomeText)
  fix up some formatting and add a tag wrapper  (see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp)
     parameters -      SomeText  text to add the wrapper to
     global items -   LineCount, TheHeight, UseWidth, TheWidth,  KeepFormatting,                         
                 BorderColor, TextColor, BackgroundColor
     returns [text]:      the wrapped text
  set {Height, Width} to {"", ""}
  if (count paragraphs of SomeText) is greater than LineCount then set Height to TheHeight
  if UseWidth then set Width to TheWidth
  -- hack...
  -- seems like the apple forum software doubles the returns in a pre tag
  set SomeText to alterString(SomeText, return, "<br>")
  -- change the style properties as needed
  set SomeText to "<pre style=\"
     font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
     font-size: 10px;
     font-weight: normal;
     margin: 0px;
     padding: 5px;
     border: 1px solid " & BorderColor & ";
     " & Width & Height & "
     color: " & TextColor & ";
     background-color: " & BackgroundColor & ";
     overflow: auto;\"
     title=\"\">" & SomeText & "</pre>
  return SomeText
end addWrapper

Answer 1

Hi,
There is message type BANK_CREATE for posting the FI related Bank details. Using the change pointers you can trigger the idocs for posting the bank related data.
Regards,
Uday