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stringlistdialogapplescript
barrow
barrow

Reputation: 19

Get Rule List in AppleMail applescript

Trying to get a dialog to select Mail Rule

set ruleList to {}

tell application "Mail" to set end of ruleList to every rule

set theRule to choose from list ruleList

Get error

error "Can’t make {«class rule» "Rule 1" of application "Mail", «class rule» "Rule 2" of application "Mail", «class rule» "Rule 3" of application "Mail"} into type string." number -1700 from {«class rule» "Rule 1", «class rule» "Rule 2", «class rule» "Rule 3"} to string

Tried using

set oldDelimits to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "     "
set aRule to (ruleList as string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimits

Still similar error, also tried setting delimiter to "" of application "Mail", rule "" & its combination( where double quotes were escaped with backslash), nothing worked

any suggestions

Cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (1)

red_menace
red_menace

Reputation: 3422

A Mail rule is an object that has various elements and properties (refer to Mail's scripting dictionary for more information), but the items for a choose from list dialog need to be text. One of the rule properties is its name, which can be used for the dialog.

The following handler gets the rule names for the dialog, and the choice from the dialog is used to return the rule:

to getMailRule() -- choose rule by name
    tell application "Mail"
        set choice to (choose from list (get name of every rule))
        if choice is false then -- cancel
            return missing value
        else
            return first item of (get rules whose name is (choice as string))
        end if
    end tell
end getMailRule

return properties of getMailRule() -- do something with a Mail rule

Upvotes: 0

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