{"id":41,"date":"2008-07-09T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-03-23T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:54:08","slug":"finding-osa-scripts-with-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Finding OSA scripts with Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the release of Script Debugger 4.0, I added a Spotlight searching capability for OSA scripts created with Script Debugger. \u00a0Based on a series of customer support emails I realized that this is not a well documented aspect of the product. \u00a0Here is a quick overview of how to use Script Debugger Spotlight support to find OSA scripts on your Macintosh.<\/p>\n\n

NOTE<\/strong>: Spotlight indexing of OSA scripts only works for scripts that have beenn saved using Script Debugger. \u00a0Scripts created with Apple’s Script Editor are not<\/strong> indexed.<\/p>\n\n

Script Debugger provides indexing information for three aspects of your OSA scripts:<\/p>\n\n

    \n

  1. the source text of the script (kMDItemTextContent)<\/p><\/li>\n

  2. the script’s description (kMDItemDescription)<\/p><\/li>\n

  3. the script’s language name (kMDItemKeywords) which is normally “AppleScript”<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    Here some ways to find all the scripts on your Macintosh which target the Apple Mail application. \u00a0First, we’ll search for documents containing “Mail” and with the AppleScript keyword:<\/p>\n\n

    \u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n

    This is good, but we get some documents that are not scripts. \u00a0Instead, we’ll search for OSA scripts that contain “Mail”:<\/p>\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n

    Perfect, all the OSA scripts on my machine that target the Apple Mail application.<\/p>\n\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here is a quick overview of how to use Script Debugger Spotlight support to find OSA scripts on your Macintosh.<\/p>

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