Using AppleScript - "selecting" a column

I am trying to select a column header in SAP GUI 7.10 rev9. I can record this scenario fine in the built-in recorder and it outputs this:
userarea.findById("tabsTBSTRP_TABLES/tabpTAB1/ssubFIELDS:SAPLMASSINTERFACE:0202/subSUB_DATA:SAPLMASSINTERFACE:0212/tblSAPLMASSINTERFACETCTRL_TABLE").columns.elementAt(3).selected = true;
However, when trying to record this with AppleScript editor, this scenario does not get recorded. Does anyone know how to translate the above into AppleScript?
Thanks,
-Nate

Also check this post,
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/oracle-bi-ee-101332-passing-operators-in-dashboard-prompts-go-url-and-presentation-variables/
In this it is shown for using Go Url, convert this based on your requirement.
Thanks,
Vino

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Select by Note using Applescript

I want to know if it's possible using Applescript to select items based on the contents of the Note field of the Attibutes Panel. It's used to select objects within Actions, so it seems like it should be possible.
Unfortunately I'm not very good at scripting and can't seem to figure out the right syntax.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions...
Mike D.

Hey, Mike:
Yes, it's possible to select an item based on the contents of its Note.
every page item whose note contains "testing" -- This would return a list of page items who has "testing" in the note. This includes an item with the word "retesting" so remember to be specific. These are only computers after all… they're not very smart! ;^)
This is doable but remember you can name any and all items on a page and select them based on that parameter. Unless you have a particular reason to use the Note property I would use Name but either way can be worked out.
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Is it possible to get a reference to the currently selected project in Aperture using AppleScript? In other words, is it possible to get the project containing the currently selected image (which I can get by using "selection")? If possible, how can I do it?

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How to update popup (drop down) cells in Numbers using Applescript

I understand that the list popups (dropdown lists in cells) cannot be dynamic in Numbers.
I have the same dropdown list in multiple cells and tables, and this list often needs to be changed. Its not practical to amend one list, then copy/paste it into 200 plus cells that require the dropdown facility (they are not in sequential rows).
Can Applescript be used to do the copy/paste function, as i could specify the cell ranges. My simple attempt only managed to copy/paste the cell values rather than the dropdown/popup list.
Any constructive help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Hiroto,
I have this script running, with one issue.
set tValues to my doThis(1) -- get values of the selection
if tValues is not "" then
activate
          display dialog "Select the cells where you want to create the PopUp." & return & "After that, click on the 'OK' button."
          my doThis(tValues) -- set the cell format of the new selection to "PopUp Menu" and set the values of the each menu item
          tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "Done"
else
          tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "You must select the cells in a table before running this script."
end if
on doThis(n)
          tell application "Numbers"
                    set tTables to (tables of sheets of front document whose its selection range isnot missing value)
                    repeat with t in tTables -- t is a list of tables of a sheet
                              if contents of t is not {} then -- this list is not empty, it's the selected sheet
                                        set activeTable to (get item 1 of t)
                                        if n = 1 then return value of cells of selection range of activeTable-- return values of the selection
                                        set format of (cells of selection range of activeTable) to pop up menu -- set the format to pop up menu
                                        return my setValuePopUp(n) -- set value of each menu item
                              end if
                    end repeat
          end tell
          return ""
end doThis
on setValuePopUp(L)
          tell application "System Events"
                    tell process "Numbers"
                              set frontmost to true
                              delay 0.3
                              set inspectorWindow to missing value
                              set tWindows to windows whose subrole is "AXFloatingWindow"
                              repeat with i in tWindows
                                        if exists radio group 1 of i then
                                                  set inspectorWindow to i
                                                  exit repeat
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                              if inspectorWindow is missing value then
keystroke "i" using {option down, command down} -- Show Inspector
                              else
perform action "AXRaise" of inspectorWindow -- raise the Inspector window to the front
                              end if
                              delay 0.3
                              tell window 1
click radio button 4 of radio group 1 -- the "cell format" tab
                                        delay 0.3
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                                                  set tTable to table 1 of scroll area 1
                                                  set tc to count rows of tTable
                                                  set lenL to (count L)
                                                  if tc < lenL then -- ** add menu items **
                                                            repeat until (count rows of tTable) = lenL
click button 1 -- button [+]
                                                            end repeat
keystroke return -- validate the default name of the last menu item
                                                  else if tc > lenL then -- ** remove menu items **
                                                            repeat while exists row (lenL + 1) of tTable
                                                                      select row (lenL + 1) of tTable
click button 2 -- button [-]
                                                            end repeat
                                                  end if
                                                  tell tTable to repeat with i from 1 to lenL -- ** change value of each menu item **
                                                            set value of text field 1 of row i to item i of L
                                                  end repeat
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                    end tell
          end tell
end setValuePopUp
==============================
When the popup is created, if there is one header row, it adds "1" to the list of popup items, if there are two header rows, it adds "1", "2" to the list of popup items. What should i amend to remove this (i have two header rows in my sheet).
I would ideally like to add a "-" to the list (to represent nothing selected in the cell) as default i.e. top of the list (i could add the symbol to my source data but that would look untidy). At the moment, after running the script all cell values change to 1.
Oh, what would the best way to modify the script so it selects a specific cell range? At the moment i have to first select a column, then run the script, then select the source cells, then click ok on the dialog box before it does the magic.
Someone else will be running the script, and if its easy to change, i would prefer to have an absolute source cell range values so the user can just rund the script without any selection required.
If you can advise on this, that would be most helpful.

Can I chart in Numbers using AppleScript

I have just started learning AppleScript so that I can automate some business processes and save myself some time. Because of better design and ease of use I use the latest version of iWork and don't even have Office installed on my Mac, nor do I want to install it. However, one area I cannot work out is how to automate the creation of a chart in Numbers using AppleScript.
Is this possible? If so, how, and if not, why not?

Answering questions like : how may we do this or that, is what we are supposed to try to achieve in this forum.
Answering questions like yours : why this or that, can't be seriously done here.
Here you ask to end users like you. We don't belong to the teams designing the apps.
We just may try to guess.
To build tables and charts Pages and Numbers share the same pieces of code so there is no technical reasons able to explain the omission.
So I guess that, as Pages is in its 4th version, designers had more time available to embed features in the AppleScript support than those working upon Numbers.
What's funny is that there is a minimal support for charts in Pages (as well as a microscopic support for tables) but there is a correct support for tables (which may be enhanced) in Numbers but nothing for charts.
Honestly, I really don't think that the difference is huge.
I posted my script too fast.
I forgot to insert the handler allowing us to bring a sheet at front which is required to apply GUIScripting.
It's probably the main drawback of the need to use GUIScripting here.
I don't waste time trying to apply some edit tasks to the charts.
I just wanted to fill the gap between Pages and Numbers about scripting charts.
Here is an enhanced version.
--{code}
--[SCRIPT add_charts]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/08/27
on run
          my activateGUIscripting()
          tell application "Numbers" to tell document 1
                    set dName to its name
                    set sName1 to name of sheet 1
                    set sName2 to name of sheet 2
Select sheet 1 of document 1
The doc name may be passed by a number but the sheet must be identified by its name .
As it's just a sample, in the first call I reference the doc by its index *)
                    my selectSheet(1, sName1)
                    tell sheet sName1 to tell table 1
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 9) -- Scatter chart
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 3) -- Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 4) -- Stacked Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 3 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 20) -- 3D Pie
                    end tell
Select sheet 2 of document 1
This time, I reference the document by its name *)
                    my selectSheet(dName, sName2)
                    tell sheet sName2 to tell table 1
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 9) -- Scatter chart
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 3) -- Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 4) -- Stacked Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
                              set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 3 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
                              my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 20) -- 3D Pie
                    end tell --sheet 2…
          end tell -- Numbers…
end run
--=====
on parleAnglais()
          local z
          try
                    tell application "Numbers" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
          on error
                    set z to "Cancel"
          end try
          return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleAnglais
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
(* to be sure than GUI scripting will be active *)
          tell application "System Events"
                    if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true
          end tell
end activateGUIscripting
--=====
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectSheet(theDoc, theSheet)
          script myScript
                    property listeObjets : {}
                    local maybe, targetSheetRow
                    tell application "Numbers"
activate
                              set theDoc to name of document theDoc (* useful if the passed value is a number *)
                              tell document theDoc to set my listeObjets to name of sheets
                    end tell -- "Numbers"…
                    set maybe to theSheet is in my listeObjets
                    set my listeObjets to {} -- So it will not be saved in the script *)
                    if not maybe then
                              if my parleAnglais() then
                                        error "The sheet “" & theSheet & "” is unavailable in the spreadsheet “" & theDoc & "” !"
                              else
                                        error "La feuille « " & theSheet & " » n’existe pas dans le tableur « " & theDoc & " » ! "
                              end if -- my parleAnglais
                    end if -- not maybe
                    set maybe to 5 > (system attribute "sys2")
                    tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Numbers"
                              tell outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of splitter group 1 of window theDoc
                                        if maybe then (* macOS X 10.4.x
'(value of attributes contains 0)': '(value of attribute "AXDisclosureLevel" is 0)' sometimes works in Tiger, sometimes not.
The only possible instances of 0 amongst the attributes are the disclosure level of a sheet row and the index of the first row, which represents a sheet anyway.
Another possibility is '(value of attribute -1 is 0)', which makes me uneasy. *)
                                                  set targetSheetRow to first row where ((value of attributes contains 0) and (value of first static text is theSheet))
                                        else (* macOS X 10.5.x or higher *)
                                                  set targetSheetRow to first row where ((value of attribute "AXDisclosureLevel" is 0) and ((groups is {}) and (value of first static text is theSheet)) or (value of first group's first static text is theSheet))
                                        end if -- maybe…
Handler modified to accomodate sheets requiring a lot of time to get the focus
                                        tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXSelected" to true
                                        set cnt to 0
                                        repeat (*
Must way that Numbers becomes ready to receive the value *)
                                                  try
                                                            tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXDisclosing" to true
                                                            exit repeat
                                                  on error
                                                            set cnt to cnt + 1
delay 0.5 -- half a second
                                                  end try
                                        end repeat
                              end tell -- outline…
                    end tell -- "System Events"…
                    tell application "Numbers" to tell document theDoc to tell sheet theSheet to tell table 1
                              with timeout of 20 * 60 seconds (*
WITH this setting, the script will be able to wait 20 minutes for the asked value.
I hope that the document will not be so huge that this delay prove to be too short. *)
                                        value of cell "A1"
                              end timeout
                    end tell -- "Numbers"…
                    tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Numbers" (*
Do the trick one more time to be sure that the sheet is open *)
                              tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXDisclosing" to true
                    end tell -- "System Events"…
End of the modified piece of code
          end script
run myScript
end selectSheet
--=====
my selectSubMenu("Pages",6, 4, 26)
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectSubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
          tell application theApp
activate
                    tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1 to ¬
                              tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1 to tell menu item mi to tell menu 1 to click menu item ms
          end tell -- application theApp
end selectSubMenu
--=====
useful to get the indexs of the triggered item
my select_SubMenu("Numbers", 6, 4, 3) (* Table > Chart> Bars *)
on select_SubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
          tell application theApp
activate
                    tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1
                              get name of menu bar items
01 - "Apple",
02 - "Numbers",
03 - "Fichier",
04 - "Édition",
05 - "Insertion",
06 - "Tableau",
07 - "Format",
08 - "Disposition",
09 - "Présentation",
10 - "Fenêtre",
11 - "Partage",
12 - "Aide"}
                              get name of menu bar item mt
-- {"Tableau"}
                              tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1
                                        get name of menu items
01 - "Feuille",
02 - missing value,
03 - "Tableau",
04 - "Graphique",
05 - "Figure",
06 - "Zone de texte",
07 - "Fonction",
08 - "Ligne de connexion",
09 - missing value,
10 - "Remplissage",
11 - missing value,
12 - "Rangs copiés",
13 - "Colonnes copiées",
14 - missing value,
15 - "Date et heure",
16 - "Nom du fichier",
17 - "Numéro de page",
18 - "Nombre de pages",
19 - missing value,
20 - "Commentaire",
21 - "Lien",
22 - "Saut de colonne",
23 - "Équation MathType",
24 - missing value,
25 - "Choisir…"}
                                        get name of menu item mi
--> "Graphique"
                                        tell menu item mi to tell menu 1
                                                  get name of menu items
01 - "Colonnes",
02 - "Colonnes empilées",
03 - "Barres",
04 - "Barres empilées",
05 - "Ligne",
06 - "Couches",
07 - "Couches empilées",
08 - "Diagramme circulaire",
09 - "Nuage de points",
10 - "Mixte",
11 - "2 axes",
12 - missing value,
13 - "Colonnes 3D",
14 - "Colonnes 3D empilées",
15 - "Barres 3D",
16 - "Barres 3D empilées",
17 - "Linéaire 3D",
18 - "Couches 3D",
19 - "Couches 3D empilées",
20 - "Circulaire 3D"}
                                                  get name of menu item ms
--> "Barres"
click menu item ms
                                        end tell
                              end tell
                    end tell
          end tell -- application theApp
end select_SubMenu
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 27 août 2011 15:19:15
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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Use Applescript to list duplicates in Mac Office Excel 2011

Hello Apple scripters!
I was thinking if it's possible to use Applescript in Excel to find duplicates using conditional formating then export it on a new list.
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Yes, and not just recently.
There is a reason Preview is named, well, preview. It is not an authoring environment and PDFs are not meant to serve in that context either...unless maybe you understand all of inherent the font traps, tricks & tips and how to tune your scanning/OCR software to keep rework to a minimum.
Scanning PDFs is always tricky, and without the occasional heavy metal to bring to the task, it just seems to be that more problematic.
Keep trying, but I'd really suggest to look to other tools at this time.

Selecting all columns from table in a model query

I have written a model query which joins 4 tables, applies some rules and returns updated rows by selecting 4 columns out of this. Currently it works fine because all 4 columns are from MODEL aliases. Now I need to select 16 more columns in the same query but none of these columns is added in MODEL aliases. When I tried selecting these columns I got oracle error ORA - 32614. Can someone please guide me to include these columns in the same model query?
I tried couple of options but no luck. Here are those options for ready reference:
1. I cannot nest existing model query into another select because there are no columns avaiable to join in output of current query to map with other records.
2. I cannot include all 16 columns in MODEL aliases because some of these columns are actually output of user defined functions.
I am using Oracle database version 11g Release 11.2.0.1.0.
Edited by: Anirudha Dhopate on Jan 23, 2011 5:43 PM

Thank you Avijit for your reply. There is a syntax error on the ON in this part of the statement which I don't know how to fix - I tried messing around with another INNER JOIN but am not confident that I'm doing the right thing:
SENAlertType.SENAlertTypeIDONClassMember.ClassMemberStudentID
Thanks for your help! I will need to do some more bedtime reading on joins.
Daniel

Schedule Manager - Use of Selection Variable

Hi all,
My Question is "What is the use of Selection Variable settings in Schedule Manager screen?"
I am not asking about defining selection variable in the variants to pick up values from TVARV table. My question is how I can make use of the Selection Variable(Extras->Settings->Selection Variable) in the Schedule Manager screen.
The variable value column is ready for input in the Schedule Manager screen, is it possible to set the variant to pick up this value for the tasks in SCMA?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Prabha

Hi Prabha,
After you have finished maintaining your variant, you would have to click on the "<b>Attributes</b>" button just below the title and maintain the description for your variant. Save this entry and press the back <b>green arrow</b>. Your save button would now be activated and you can save your settings now.
I hope this helps.
Do not forget to award the point please.
Regards,
Jacob

How I generate index markers using Applescript and tagged text!

One of the challenges I've faced in automating the book making process using Applescript with inDesign is that there don't seem to be any AS commands for making new index markers (anyone please correct me I if I'm wrong about this).
I've tried various js scripts which do an OK job, but they don't make the actual native markers. This means you have to wait until the book (consistiing of multiple ID files) is complete (so that all the page numbers have been established) to generate the index.
Recently, I read a tweet from someone with a link to a technique which uses tagged text and find and replace with GREP to edit the tags, inserting the tagged text index tags in the text file and then re-placing the text file in the ID page. In itself, this works great. But I'm dealing with literally thousands of separate text frames, none of them connected in a story.
The books typically consist of around 1200 pages with almost that many people, each of whose names I need to index with "Lastname, Firstname" references. And those particular strings don't (can't) appear anywhere on the pages. There will also be about 50 ID files all combined into one book. So it is imperative that I have ID generate the native index markers. To help keep things straight and efficient, I'm creating separate small text frames to hold the lastname, firstname strings. I created an object style for these frames which sets the attributes to "nonprinting", and I place the frames in the margin.
Then I realized that I don't actually have to have ID export the tagged text files for each. I exported one prototype and copied its tags to properties in my script, and then I concatenate them with the respective list item values I import from the database.
At the proper point in the page building script, I tell "textwrangleer" to make a new document, set its contents to the index string for the current record, save it to disk, overwriting the previous one, and then tell ID to "place" it in the index text frame, which generates the ID index mark.
I actually got an AS error when I first tried this: "file doesn't exist" or some such. Then I realized that the "place" command was happening too soon, so I inserted a .5 sec delay in the script, and it worked.
This is actually my first major script for actual work, and I'm so excited about it! I promises to cut production time down to about a thenth of what it was.
I still have to add some logic to branch between handlers with slightly different parameters for five different page formats, but the same page building handler will work on all of them.

A note on this:
Daniel Swanson wrote:
I've tried various js scripts which do an OK job, but they don't make the actual native markers. This means you have to wait until the book (consistiing of multiple ID files) is complete (so that all the page numbers have been established) to generate the index.
These scripts typically search for words and immediately write out the page numbers they are found on -- one shot indexing.
The solution is to add both the topic and its page reference to the current document's index:
if (app.activeDocument.indexes.length == 0)
app.activeDocument.indexes.add();
app.activeDocument.indexes[0].topics.add(app.selection[0].contents).pageReferences.add(app.selection[0]);
The first lines only make sure there is an index to add to (per default, a new document has none).
The last line adds a selected word to the index (it must be a plain text string, hence the use of its 'contents'), and then adds a reference to the selection in the text itself.
Adding the same word a second time will for a change (quite untypically for ID's Scripting) not result in an error but simply add another page reference to the existing one.
When doing this in a loop: remember to work backwards, because the index marker itself gets inserted into the running text, and that will throw off your text indices.

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