AppleScript access to other columns?

[Adam Wuellner]

On 8/8/05, Jim Miller <jmiller at miramontes.com> wrote:
> I've got a to-do list type outline that has a "Priority" column in
> it; this has pop-up list entries like "Today", "Tomorrow", and so
> on.  I'd like to write a script that gets all the rows whose priority
> column is "today" (for instance), but I can't figure out how to get
> this other column data for the rows.  Any suggestions?

This assumes that your Priority column is the first column
to the right of the Topic column (i.e. column 3):

tell front document of application "OmniOutliner Professional"
	set some_rows to rows whose value of cell 3 is "today"
end tell

Here's a variation that will allow you to move the column at
your discretion without breaking the script:

tell front document of application "OmniOutliner Professional"
	set column_index to index of first column whose name is "Priority"
	set some_rows to rows whose value of cell column_index is "today"
end tell

Incidentally, if you don't know the possible values for the
popup column, you can ask for the names of its enumerations:

tell front document of application "OmniOutliner Professional"
	set column_index to index of first column whose name is "Priority"
	set popup_values to name of enumerations of column column_index
	set some_rows to rows whose value of cell column_index ¬
		is item 2 of popup_values
end tell


Hope that helps,

Adam W.