Scripting and date columns

[Wayne Brissette]

Michael Grant soft at bdanube.com on Thursday, June 19, 2003 stated:


>I'm finding that setting date values to cells programmatically via
>AppleScript corrupts my OmniOutliner documents. When I try to save, I get
>the alert:
>
>*** -[NSCFDate descriptionWithCalendarFormat:]: selector not recognized
>
>and the document doesn't save.
>
>The minimal script:
>
>tell application "OmniOutliner" to set the value of cell 3 <no break>
>of row 1 of document 1 to (current date)
>
>produces the error in a document with only a title and date column.

(current date) is not a string value. I wonder if that's causing your
problems. 

You might try this:

set MyDate to (current date) as string
tell application "OmniOutliner" to set the value of cell 3 <no break>
of row 1 of document 1 to MyDate


See if that fixes the problem. 

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