All Notes to Children?

[Brian Vito]

Curtis' second version of this script works exactly as I'd like (although I 
did decide to remove the dialog-box notices).  Thanks for your help.

>From: Curtis Clifton <curt.clifton at mac.com>
>To: Brian Vito <classic695 at hotmail.com>
>CC: omnioutliner-users at omnigroup.com
>Subject: Re: All Notes to Children?
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:20:58 -0600
>
>Brian,
>
>On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Brian Vito wrote:
>
>>I have an outline in which I've used a lot of notes, but now I'd like 
>>those notes to be children.  ... An illustration:
>>
>>1. Hello
>>    This is a note.
>>
>>to:
>>
>>1. Hello
>>  a. This is a note (although it isn't actually a note anymore)
>>
>
>Here's a partial solution.  Perhaps another scripter on the list can see 
>how to finish it:
>
>tell front document of application "OmniOutliner Professional"
>	set theNotedRows to (selected rows whose note is not "")
>	repeat with theRow in theNotedRows
>		tell theRow
>			set theNote to text of note
>			set note to ""
>			make new row with properties {topic:theNote}
>		end tell
>	end repeat
>end tell
>
>This script takes every row of the current selection (do an expand all, 
>select all for processing every row) and converts every note to a child 
>item.  The problem is the new "note children" are placed _after_ any 
>existing children instead of before.  That is:
>
>1. An Item
>     An item's note
>     a. A child item
>
>becomes:
>
>1. An Item
>     a. A child item
>     b. An item's note
>
>Does anyone know the right incantation to make a new row before the 
>existing children?  Every combination I've tried seems to lead to an 
>NSEvaluationError from OO3 (which is probably a bug, but I don't know for 
>sure).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Curt
>
>----------------------------------
>Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
>Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
>http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton
>